Journal of Public Economics

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Public Economics is 3. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
News credibility and the quest for clicks116
Editorial Board115
Editorial Board73
Do mandated health insurance benefits for diabetes save lives?71
Testing above the limit: Drinking water contamination and test scores60
Welfare effects of unemployment benefits when informality is high58
Later-life mortality and the repeal of federal prohibition58
State Auto-IRA policies and firm behavior: Lessons from administrative tax data54
Editorial Board54
How do government transfer payments affect retail prices and welfare? Evidence from SNAP52
De Jure versus De Facto transparency: Corruption in local public office in India45
Optimal tax policy and endogenous growth through innovation45
Spillovers in fields of study: Siblings, cousins, and neighbors40
Progressive consumption taxes38
Women’s economic empowerment and intimate partner violence38
R&D tax credits and innovation37
Immigrant inventors and local income taxes: Evidence from Swiss municipalities35
Earnings information and public preferences for university tuition: Evidence from representative experiments34
Income tax credits for consumer services: A tool for tackling VAT evasion?32
The effect of highly publicized police killings on policing: Evidence from large U.S. cities32
With a little help from my friends. Political competition in the shadow of organized crime28
Moral hazard in insurance: Theory and evidence from a credit reform in Ghana27
One step ahead of the law: The net effect of anticipation and implementation of Colombia’s illegal crops substitution program27
The effects of legal representation on tenant outcomes in housing court: Evidence from New York City’s Universal Access program26
Tax enforcement and the intended and unintended consequences of information disclosure26
Credit access and housing insecurity: Evidence from winter utility shutoff protections26
Can changes in disability insurance work incentives influence beneficiary employment? Evidence from the promoting opportunity demonstration26
Private response to exclusionary welfare policy: Evidence from Italian municipalities26
Affirmative action and its race-neutral alternatives25
Competence-loyalty tradeoff under dominant minority rule: The case of Manchu rule, 1650-191125
Do mandatory disclosures squeeze the lemons? The case of housing markets in India25
Industrial automation and local public goods24
Neighborhoods, perceived Inequality, and preferences for Redistribution: Evidence from Barcelona24
Editorial Board23
Preempting polarization: An experiment on opinion formation23
Editorial Board23
Tradable immigration quotas revisited22
Myths of official measurement: Limits to test-based education reforms with weak governance22
Political accountability for populist policies: Lessons from the world’s largest democracy22
Representative compensation and disability claimant outcomes22
Income and saving responses to tax incentives for private retirement savings22
Pass-through, welfare, and incidence under imperfect competition21
Editorial Board21
Political leaders and macroeconomic expectations: Evidence from a global survey experiment21
Government spending multipliers in (un)certain times21
Place-based consequences of person-based transfers: Evidence from recessions21
Personal norms — and not only social norms — shape economic behavior20
Who truly bears (bank) taxes? Evidence from only shifting statutory incidence20
Do prize-linked incentives promote positive financial behavior? Evidence from a debt reduction intervention20
Easing renegotiation rules in public procurement: Evidence from a policy reform20
Financial repercussions of SNAP work requirements20
Statutory incidence and sales tax compliance: Evidence from Wayfair20
The division of parental leave: Empirical evidence and policy design20
Editorial Board19
Does candidates’ media exposure affect vote shares? Evidence from Pope breaking news19
Editorial Board19
The importance of schools in driving children’s applications for disability benefits18
Multilateral regime change18
Populism and ideological convergence: Evidence from a multiparty system18
The effect of war on redistribution preferences18
Targeted regulation for reducing high-ozone events18
Cleaner water and higher housing prices: Evidence from China☆17
Firm responses to book income alternative minimum taxes17
Academic mobility in U.S. public schools: Evidence from nearly 3 million students17
Does single-sex schooling help or hurt labor market outcomes? Evidence from a natural experiment in South Korea17
Landmines: The local effects of demining17
Using schooling decisions to estimate the elasticity of marginal utility of consumption17
The effects of labor market opportunities on education: The case of a female hiring ceiling in Iran17
The dynamics of cohort effect in politics17
Small business tax compliance under third-party reporting16
Surviving a mass shooting16
Wealth inequality and the political economy of financial and labour regulations16
Opportunity and inequality across generations16
Recovering voice through out-of-district donations16
Subjective well-being and social desirability16
The Pandemic’s effect on demand for public schools, homeschooling, and private schools15
Intergenerational effect of an education stipend program on child development: Evidence from Bangladesh15
Moving to density: Half a century of housing costs and wage premia from Queens to King Salmon15
Political manipulation of urban land markets: Evidence from China15
Noise pollution and violent crime☆15
Does weak enforcement deter tax progressivity?15
Inside the West Wing: Lobbying as a contest14
The scale and nature of neighborhood effects on children14
Optimal taxation of risky entrepreneurial capital14
Editorial Board14
Misperceived effectiveness and the demand for psychotherapy14
The persistent impact of electoral incentives on the quality of infrastructure13
Voters and the trade-off between policy stability and responsiveness13
International college students’ impact on the US skilled labor supply13
Teacher-led innovations to improve education outcomes: Experimental evidence from Brazil13
Poverty spillovers in human capital Formation: Evidence from randomized class assignments in China13
Offshore tax evasion and wealth inequality: Evidence from a tax amnesty in the Netherlands13
National parks and economic development13
Migrant exposure and anti-migrant sentiment: The case of the Venezuelan exodus13
Fallen women: Recessions and the supply of sex work12
Reducing child marriages through CCTs: Evidence from a large-scale policy intervention in Indonesia12
Digitalization to improve tax compliance: Evidence from VAT e-Invoicing in Peru12
The political allocation of green pork and its implications for federal climate policy12
Spend as you were told: Evidence from labeled COVID-19 stimulus payments in South Korea12
The impacts of Covid-19 absences on workers12
Correlation in state and local tax changes12
Editorial Board12
Climate and migration in the United States12
The environmental costs of political interference: Evidence from power plants in the Amazon12
Editorial Board12
Effects of speed-schools in Niger12
When the minimum wage really bites hard: The negative spillover effect on high-skilled workers11
Risky moms, risky kids? fertility and crime after the fall of the wall11
The effect of emergency financial assistance on healthcare use11
Long-term effects of grants and loans for vocational education11
Diverting domestic turmoil11
Race-blind admissions, school segregation, and student outcomes11
Wealth tax enforcement in Sweden: Filing requirements and pre-populated returns11
Escaping the exchange of information: Tax evasion via citizenship-by-investment11
Auctions for risk-averse non-profits11
New evidence on the efficacy of state-based retirement programs: The case of OregonSaves11
Combining rules and discretion in economic development policy: Evidence on the impacts of the California Competes Tax Credit11
Learning from praise: Evidence from a field experiment with teachers11
The decline of manufacturing employment and the rise of the far-right in Austria11
Frames, incentives, and education: Effectiveness of interventions to delay public pension claiming11
The market-level effects of charter schools on student outcomes: A national analysis of school districts11
Occupational licensing in US public schools: Nationwide implementation of Teacher Performance Assessment11
The political economy of coastal development11
Choice and consequence: Assessing mismatch at Chicago exam schools11
The impact of diversity on perceptions of income distribution and preferences for redistribution11
Primary care providers’ influence on opioid use and its adverse consequences11
Editorial Board10
How do business owners respond to a tax cut? Examining the 199A deduction for pass-through firms10
Worker and spousal responses to automatic enrollment10
The children of HOPE VI demolitions: National evidence on labor market outcomes10
Tax losses and ex-ante offshore transfer of intellectual property10
Women leaders improve environmental outcomes: Evidence from crop fires in India10
The effect of required minimum distributions on intergenerational transfers10
Marketing authorization and strategic patenting: Evidence from pharmaceuticals10
Does information affect homophily?10
Politics from the Bench? Ideology and Strategic Voting in the U.S. Supreme Court10
The impact of withdrawal penalties on retirement savings10
Prices vs quantities with risk aversion10
Uncovering illegal and underground economies: The case of mafia extortion racketeering10
Toward an understanding of tax amnesty take-up: Evidence from a natural field experiment10
Committees as active audiences: Reputation concerns and information acquisition9
The salary taboo privacy norms and the diffusion of information9
Bureaucrats under Populism9
Editorial Board9
The “Privatization” of municipal debt9
The effects of public campaign funding: Evidence from Seattle’s Democracy Voucher program9
Medical bill shock and imperfect moral hazard9
Gender, beliefs, and coordination with externalities9
Organized crime, violence and support for the state9
Self-signaling in voting9
Infrastructure maintenance and rural economic activity: Evidence from India9
Do temporary workers experience additional employment and earnings risk after workplace injuries?9
Do elections affect immigration? Evidence from French municipalities9
Editorial Board9
Occupy government: Democracy and the dynamics of personnel decisions and public finances9
The effects of physician vertical integration on referral patterns, patient welfare, and market dynamics9
Judicial subversion: The effects of political power on court outcomes8
Do people demand fact-checked news? Evidence from U.S. Democrats8
Behavioral cross-influence of a shadow tax bracket: Evidence from bunching where income tax liabilities start8
The effects of physician retirement on patient outcomes: Anticipation and disruption8
Firm mobility and jurisdictions’ tax rate choices: Evidence from immobile firm entry8
Immigrant legalization and the redistribution of state funds: Evidence from the 1986 IRCA8
Editorial Board8
Informative fundraising: The signaling value of seed money and matching gifts8
Labor market regulations and firm adjustments in skill demand8
Subsidizing low- and middle-income adoption of electric vehicles: Quasi-experimental evidence from California8
Rounded Up: Using round numbers to identify tax evasion8
Measuring take-up of the California EITC with state administrative data8
The place-based effects of police stations on crime: Evidence from station closures8
Managing “Last Moment Behavior”: Non-binding target dates to reduce the spikes in task completion at deadlines8
The economic consequences of being widowed by war: A life-cycle perspective8
Environmental taxes and productivity: Lessons from Canadian manufacturing8
Sequential referenda with sophisticated voters8
Dangerous prescribing and healthcare fragmentation: Evidence from opioids8
Identity breeds inequality: Evidence from a laboratory experiment on redistribution8
Effects of restrictive abortion legislation on cohort mortality evidence from 19th century law variation8
Heterogeneity in the pass-through from oil to gasoline prices: A new instrument for estimating the price elasticity of gasoline demand8
Centralized School choice with unequal outside options8
The value of relationships in healthcare8
Technology and the state: Building capacity to tax via text8
The impact of increased exposure of diversity on suburban students’ outcomes: An analysis of the METCO voluntary desegregation program8
Employer-sponsored health insurance premiums and income in U.S. tax data8
Partisan political beliefs and social learning8
Do senators and house members beat the stock market? Evidence from the STOCK Act8
Gulags, crime, and elite violence: Origins and consequences of the Russian mafia8
Regulatory arbitrage in teacher hiring and retention: Evidence from Massachusetts Charter Schools7
Using payroll taxes as a redistribution tool7
From syringes to dishes: Improving food sufficiency through vaccination7
Present bias in politics and self-committing treaties7
Unintended workplace safety consequences of minimum wages7
Counting on my vote not counting: Expressive voting in committees7
The long-term health and economic consequences of improved property rights7
Facilitating police reform: Body cameras, police-involved homicides, and law enforcement outcomes7
Editorial Board7
TRAP’d Teens: Impacts of abortion provider regulations on fertility & education7
Environmental regulations and international trade: A quantitative economic analysis of world pollution emissions7
Are deficits free?7
Building trust in the state with information: Evidence from urban Punjab7
Income shocks, political support and voting behaviour7
Does going cashless make you tax-rich? Evidence from India’s demonetization experiment7
Failure to launch: Measuring the impact of sales tax nexus standards on business activity7
Taxing Uber7
The political consequences of resource scarcity: Targeted spending in a water-stressed democracy7
A quantitative evaluation of universal basic income7
Editorial Board7
The psychological gains from COVID-19 vaccination7
Read my lips? Taxes and elections7
One hundred years of U.S. state taxation7
Editorial Board6
How did federal aid to states and localities affect testing and vaccine delivery?6
We’ve got you covered! The effect of public health insurance on rural entrepreneurship in China6
Optional (non-)filing and effective taxation6
Editorial Board6
Beliefs about inequality and the nature of support for redistribution6
Spot price biases in non-linear health insurance contracts6
Eliciting preferences for income redistribution: A new survey item6
‘Earned, not given’? The effect of lowering the full retirement age on retirement decisions6
Tax evasion and tax avoidance6
Uniform brand-variant pricing and heterogeneous firm responses to excise taxes: Evidence from six U.S. cities6
Diminishing Target-based GDP Manipulation: Evidence from China6
A quantitative analysis of subsidy competition in the U.S.6
A rising tide lifts all homes? Housing consumption trends for low-income households since the 1980s6
Football, alcohol, and domestic abuse6
Provider turf wars and Medicare payment rules6
How does group identification affect redistribution in representative democracies? An Experiment6
State responses to federal matching grants: The case of medicaid6
Majority choice of taxation and redistribution in a federation6
Unemployment and tax design6
Nonlinear taxation and international mobility in general equilibrium6
Incentives, globalization, and redistribution6
Pension incentives and labor supply: Evidence from the introduction of universal old-age assistance in the UK6
Coal use, air pollution, and student performance6
The impossible trinity: Competitive markets, free entry, and efficiency6
OK Boomer: Generational differences in teacher quality6
An older college professor like me6
Syringe exchange programs and harm reduction: New evidence in the wake of the opioid epidemic6
Editorial Board5
Speed limit enforcement and road safety5
Norm-based feedback on household waste: Large-scale field experiments in two Swedish municipalities5
Nothing for something: Marketing cancer drugs to physicians increases prescribing without improving mortality5
The effects of middle school remediation on postsecondary success: Regression discontinuity evidence from Florida5
Editorial Board5
The labor market impacts of America’s first paid maternity leave policy5
Increasing the take-up of public health services: An at-scale experiment on digital government5
Understanding and increasing policymakers’ sensitivity to program impact5
Do higher income taxes on top earners trickle down? A local labor markets approach5
Can beneficiary information improve hospital accountability? Experimental evidence from a public health insurance scheme in India5
Complementarities in behavioral interventions: Evidence from a field experiment on resource conservation5
Crowd-out in school-based health interventions: Evidence from India’s midday meals program5
The returns to an additional year of education for college graduates5
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