Journal of Public Economics

Papers
(The H4-Index of Journal of Public Economics is 26. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
News credibility and the quest for clicks157
Editorial Board104
Editorial Board99
Do mandated health insurance benefits for diabetes save lives?70
Testing above the limit: Drinking water contamination and test scores66
Immigrant inventors and local income taxes: Evidence from Swiss municipalities61
Women’s economic empowerment and intimate partner violence55
The effect of highly publicized police killings on policing: Evidence from large U.S. cities54
Electoral concerns reduce restrictive measures during the COVID-19 pandemic50
Welfare effects of unemployment benefits when informality is high49
How do government transfer payments affect retail prices and welfare? Evidence from SNAP49
R&D tax credits and innovation49
Optimal tax policy and endogenous growth through innovation43
Income tax credits for consumer services: A tool for tackling VAT evasion?43
De Jure versus De Facto transparency: Corruption in local public office in India41
Spillovers in fields of study: Siblings, cousins, and neighbors38
Editorial Board33
Later-life mortality and the repeal of federal prohibition33
The effect of economic conditions on the disability insurance program: Evidence from the great recession33
Earnings information and public preferences for university tuition: Evidence from representative experiments31
Progressive consumption taxes31
Competence-loyalty tradeoff under dominant minority rule: The case of Manchu rule, 1650-191129
Moral hazard in electoral teams: List rank and campaign effort29
With a little help from my friends. Political competition in the shadow of organized crime29
Affirmative action and its race-neutral alternatives28
Moral hazard in insurance: Theory and evidence from a credit reform in Ghana26
Can changes in disability insurance work incentives influence beneficiary employment? Evidence from the promoting opportunity demonstration26
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