Journal of Public Economics

Article	Citations
Testing above the limit: Drinking water contamination and test scores	165
Do mandated health insurance benefits for diabetes save lives?	106
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State Auto-IRA policies and firm behavior: Lessons from administrative tax data	61
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“Not ready” as a productive wake-up call: Do second chances improve human capital investments?	48
Earnings information and public preferences for university tuition: Evidence from representative experiments	46
Air pollution as comparative disadvantage	45
Curbing pretextual stops: Police efficiency and racial disparities	44
Welfare effects of unemployment benefits when informality is high	43
Spillovers in fields of study: Siblings, cousins, and neighbors	40
Later-life mortality and the repeal of federal prohibition	37
Immigrant inventors and local income taxes: Evidence from Swiss municipalities	37
Income tax credits for consumer services: A tool for tackling VAT evasion?	35
De Jure versus De Facto transparency: Corruption in local public office in India	35
Progressive consumption taxes	33
Cash transfer at birth reduces criminal activity of fathers and children	33
News credibility and the quest for clicks	32
How do government transfer payments affect retail prices and welfare? Evidence from SNAP	32
Women’s economic empowerment and intimate partner violence	31
The pond dilemma with heterogeneous relative concerns	31
Cronies in the courtroom: Political interference and judicial reforms	30
With a little help from my friends. Political competition in the shadow of organized crime	29

R&D tax credits and innovation	29
Can changes in disability insurance work incentives influence beneficiary employment? Evidence from the promoting opportunity demonstration	28
Estimating intergenerational returns to medical care: New evidence from at-risk newborns	28
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Inference for welfare metrics	28
Competence-loyalty tradeoff under dominant minority rule: The case of Manchu rule, 1650-1911	28
Tax enforcement and the intended and unintended consequences of information disclosure	26
Credit access and housing insecurity: Evidence from winter utility shutoff protections	25
Affirmative action and its race-neutral alternatives	25
Fiscal externalities of transaction taxes: Evidence from the Los Angeles mansion tax	25
The effects of legal representation on tenant outcomes in housing court: Evidence from New York City’s Universal Access program	25
The (fiscal) dividend of infrastructure: Roads and revenues in Rwanda	25
Welfare debt relief: Impact on employment, benefit receipt, and mental health	24
Private response to exclusionary welfare policy: Evidence from Italian municipalities	24
Depression stigma	24
Industrial automation and local public goods	24
Political leaders and macroeconomic expectations: Evidence from a global survey experiment	23
Easing renegotiation rules in public procurement: Evidence from a policy reform	23
Representative compensation and disability claimant outcomes	23
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The division of parental leave: Empirical evidence and policy design	23
Do mandatory disclosures squeeze the lemons? The case of housing markets in India	23
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Beyond lost earnings: Job displacement and the cost of commuting	22
Statutory incidence and sales tax compliance: Evidence from Wayfair	22
Myths of official measurement: Limits to test-based education reforms with weak governance	22
Political accountability for populist policies: Lessons from the world’s largest democracy	22
Place-based consequences of person-based transfers: Evidence from recessions	21
Who truly bears (bank) taxes? Evidence from only shifting statutory incidence	21
Financial repercussions of SNAP work requirements	21
Personal norms — and not only social norms — shape economic behavior	21
Neighborhoods, perceived Inequality, and preferences for Redistribution: Evidence from Barcelona	21
Assessing the impact of grade retention: A cautionary tale of exclusion restriction violations	20
Firm responses to book income alternative minimum taxes	20
Preempting polarization: An experiment on opinion formation	20
Impacts of childhood disability on family: Labor, marriage, fertility, and depression	20
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Recovering voice through out-of-district donations	19
The effect of war on redistribution preferences	19
The effects of labor market opportunities on education: The case of a female hiring ceiling in Iran	19
Academic mobility in U.S. public schools: Evidence from nearly 3 million students	19
Weather and U.S. railways: risk, adaptation, and congestion	18
Populism and ideological convergence: Evidence from a multiparty system	18
Crowding out crowd support? Substitution between formal and informal insurance	18
Does candidates’ media exposure affect vote shares? Evidence from Pope breaking news	18
Moving to density: Half a century of housing costs and wage premia from Queens to King Salmon	18
The importance of schools in driving children’s applications for disability benefits	17
Intergenerational effect of an education stipend program on child development: Evidence from Bangladesh	17
The dynamics of cohort effect in politics	17

Using schooling decisions to estimate the elasticity of marginal utility of consumption	17
Estimating the consumption-smoothing value of Medicaid expansion: Evidence and limits	17
Targeted regulation for reducing high-ozone events	17
Does single-sex schooling help or hurt labor market outcomes? Evidence from a natural experiment in South Korea	17
Landmines: The local effects of demining	16
Does weak enforcement deter tax progressivity?	16
Cleaner water and higher housing prices: Evidence from China☆	16
Subjective well-being and social desirability	16
Noise pollution and violent crime☆	16
Medical residency subsidies and physician shortages	16
The Pandemic’s effect on demand for public schools, homeschooling, and private schools	16
The devil is in the details: Heterogeneous effects of the German minimum wage on working hours and minijobs	15
The persistent impact of electoral incentives on the quality of infrastructure	15
Inside the West Wing: Lobbying as a contest	15
Reducing child marriages through CCTs: Evidence from a large-scale policy intervention in Indonesia	15
National parks and economic development	15
Political manipulation of urban land markets: Evidence from China	15
Fallen women: Recessions and the supply of sex work	15
Who benefits from pharmaceutical price controls? Evidence from India	15
Winters of discontent	15
School equalization in the shadow of Jim Crow: Causes and consequences of resource disparity in Mississippi circa 1940	15
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Teacher-led innovations to improve education outcomes: Experimental evidence from Brazil	15
The unintended consequences of accountability: Quasi-experimental evidence from policing in Pakistan	15
Spend as you were told: Evidence from labeled COVID-19 stimulus payments in South Korea	15
Climate and migration in the United States	14
Offshore tax evasion and wealth inequality: Evidence from a tax amnesty in the Netherlands	14
Poverty spillovers in human capital Formation: Evidence from randomized class assignments in China	14
Migrant exposure and anti-migrant sentiment: The case of the Venezuelan exodus	14
The scale and nature of neighborhood effects on children	14
New evidence on the efficacy of state-based retirement programs: The case of OregonSaves	14
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Economic activity and biodiversity in the United States	14
Misperceived effectiveness and the demand for psychotherapy	14
The impacts of Covid-19 absences on workers	14
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Occupational licensing in US public schools: Nationwide implementation of Teacher Performance Assessment	14
Combining rules and discretion in economic development policy: Evidence on the impacts of the California Competes Tax Credit	14
Optimal taxation of risky entrepreneurial capital	14
International college students’ impact on the US skilled labor supply	14
Voters and the trade-off between policy stability and responsiveness	14
Correlation in state and local tax changes	14
Auctions for risk-averse non-profits	14
Risky moms, risky kids? fertility and crime after the fall of the wall	13
Race-blind admissions, school segregation, and student outcomes	13
Primary care providers’ influence on opioid use and its adverse consequences	13
Wealth tax enforcement in Sweden: Filing requirements and pre-populated returns	13
Effects of speed-schools in Niger	13
The impact of diversity on perceptions of income distribution and preferences for redistribution	13
Escaping the exchange of information: Tax evasion via citizenship-by-investment	13
Prices vs quantities with risk aversion	13
Frames, incentives, and education: Effectiveness of interventions to delay public pension claiming	13
The effect of required minimum distributions on intergenerational transfers	12
Women leaders improve environmental outcomes: Evidence from crop fires in India	12
Choice and consequence: Assessing mismatch at Chicago exam schools	12
The decline of manufacturing employment and the rise of the far-right in Austria	12
Tax losses and ex-ante offshore transfer of intellectual property	12
Does information affect homophily?	12
The market-level effects of charter schools on student outcomes: A national analysis of school districts	12
Marketing authorization and strategic patenting: Evidence from pharmaceuticals	12
Do elections affect immigration? Evidence from French municipalities	12
Worker and spousal responses to automatic enrollment	12
The political economy of coastal development	12
The environmental costs of political interference: Evidence from power plants in the Amazon	12
Uncovering illegal and underground economies: The case of mafia extortion racketeering	11
The impact of withdrawal penalties on retirement savings	11
Toward an understanding of tax amnesty take-up: Evidence from a natural field experiment	11
A model of China’s economic vertical structure	11
Committees as active audiences: Reputation concerns and information acquisition	11
The salary taboo privacy norms and the diffusion of information	11
Gender, beliefs, and coordination with externalities	11
Politics from the Bench? Ideology and Strategic Voting in the U.S. Supreme Court	11
The children of HOPE VI demolitions: National evidence on labor market outcomes	11
How do business owners respond to a tax cut? Examining the 199A deduction for pass-through firms	11
Medical bill shock and imperfect moral hazard	11
Social influence and carbon dioxide mitigation	11
Almost fare free: Impact of a cheap public transport ticket on mobility patterns and train delays	11
Judicial subversion: The effects of political power on court outcomes	11
The disenrollment and labor market effects of SNAP work requirements on parents	10
Protectionism, evasion and household welfare evidence from Nigeria’s import bans	10

Employer-sponsored health insurance premiums and income in U.S. tax data	10
Subsidizing low- and middle-income adoption of electric vehicles: Quasi-experimental evidence from California	10
Gulags, crime, and elite violence: Origins and consequences of the Russian mafia	10
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Identity breeds inequality: Evidence from a laboratory experiment on redistribution	10
The impact of increased exposure of diversity on suburban students’ outcomes: An analysis of the METCO voluntary desegregation program	10
Partisan political beliefs and social learning	10
Dangerous prescribing and healthcare fragmentation: Evidence from opioids	10
Labor market regulations and firm adjustments in skill demand	10
What happens when women suddenly stop receiving cash transfers?	10
The “Privatization” of municipal debt	10
Occupy government: Democracy and the dynamics of personnel decisions and public finances	10
Self-signaling in voting	10
Mortgages, Subways and Automobiles	10
Immigrant legalization and the redistribution of state funds: Evidence from the 1986 IRCA	10
The effects of physician vertical integration on referral patterns, patient welfare, and market dynamics	10
Heterogeneity in the pass-through from oil to gasoline prices: A new instrument for estimating the price elasticity of gasoline demand	10
Organized crime, violence and support for the state	10
Infrastructure maintenance and rural economic activity: Evidence from India	10
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The economic consequences of being widowed by war: A life-cycle perspective	9
Measuring take-up of the California EITC with state administrative data	9
Sequential referenda with sophisticated voters	9
The value of relationships in healthcare	9
Present bias in politics and self-committing treaties	9
Using payroll taxes as a redistribution tool	9
Are elites meritocratic and efficiency-seeking? Evidence from MBA students	9
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Technology and the state: Building capacity to tax via text	9
Entrepreneurship and top marginal tax rates	9
When protection becomes exploitation: The impact of firing costs on Naïve Employees	9
Rounded Up: Using round numbers to identify tax evasion	9
From syringes to dishes: Improving food sufficiency through vaccination	9
Taxing Uber	9
Human capital, unequal opportunities and productivity convergence: A global historical perspective, 1800–2100	9
The impact of unexpected delays in periodic payments on consumption	9
Effects of restrictive abortion legislation on cohort mortality evidence from 19th century law variation	9
Household production time and inequality in material living standards in the U.S., 1965–2018	9
Regulatory arbitrage in teacher hiring and retention: Evidence from Massachusetts Charter Schools	9
Corrigendum to “Consumer sentiment towards Asians in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic”. [J. Public Econom. 247 (2025) 105396]	9
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Real-time inequality	9
Managing “Last Moment Behavior”: Non-binding target dates to reduce the spikes in task completion at deadlines	8
Behavioral cross-influence of a shadow tax bracket: Evidence from bunching where income tax liabilities start	8
Facilitating police reform: Body cameras, police-involved homicides, and law enforcement outcomes	8
Read my lips? Taxes and elections	8
Heads up: Does air pollution cause workplace accidents?	8
A quantitative evaluation of universal basic income	8
TRAP’d Teens: Impacts of abortion provider regulations on fertility & education	8
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Fiscal consequences of corporate tax avoidance	8
Incentives, globalization, and redistribution	8
The political consequences of resource scarcity: Targeted spending in a water-stressed democracy	8
Time preferences and food choice	8
The psychological gains from COVID-19 vaccination	8
Equity and efficiency when needs differ	8
Income shocks, political support and voting behaviour	8
Do gender board quotas matter for working mothers? Evidence from state-owned firms in Italy	7
One hundred years of U.S. state taxation	7
Support for renewable energy: The case of wind power	7
Does going cashless make you tax-rich? Evidence from India’s demonetization experiment	7
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How do holistic wrap-around anti-poverty programs affect employment and individualized outcomes?	7
Lagged-price reimbursement contracts: The impact of medicare Part B on pharmaceutical price growth	7
Coal use, air pollution, and student performance	7
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Unemployment and tax design	7
Optional (non-)filing and effective taxation	7
Is it possible to raise national happiness?	7
A quantitative analysis of subsidy competition in the U.S.	7
We’ve got you covered! The effect of public health insurance on rural entrepreneurship in China	7
Uniform brand-variant pricing and heterogeneous firm responses to excise taxes: Evidence from six U.S. cities	7
Unintended workplace safety consequences of minimum wages	7
‘Earned, not given’? The effect of lowering the full retirement age on retirement decisions	6
Provider turf wars and Medicare payment rules	6
The employment effects of disability benefit reassessment	6
Ordinal rank and the structure of ability peer effects	6
Combating cross-border externalities: Evidence from China’s inter-provincial ecological compensation initiatives	6
How does group identification affect redistribution in representative democracies? An Experiment	6
OK Boomer: Generational differences in teacher quality	6
Dynamics of evasion around tax thresholds: Evidence from Indian firms	6
Externalities of climate adaptation in common-pool groundwater resources	6
The impossible trinity: Competitive markets, free entry, and efficiency	6
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Eliciting preferences for income redistribution: A new survey item	6
State responses to federal matching grants: The case of medicaid	6
Women’s labor market opportunities and equality in the household	6
A rising tide lifts all homes? Housing consumption trends for low-income households since the 1980s	6
Corrigendum to “Climate and migration in the United States”. [249 (2025) 105446]	6
Home or away? Profit shifting with territorial taxation	6
Ballots, budgets and bricks: Brexit and the polarisation of individual economic behaviours	6
The effects of post-Dobbs abortion bans on fertility	6
Television, health, and happiness: A natural experiment in West Germany	6
The effects of workers’ compensation experience rating on workers’ absences and employment	6