Journal of Public Economics

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Public Economics is 2. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Optimal ownership of public goods under asymmetric information147
OK Boomer: Generational differences in teacher quality102
Testing above the limit: Drinking water contamination and test scores91
Financial market exposure increases generalized trust90
How do business owners respond to a tax cut? Examining the 199A deduction for pass-through firms65
Brains or beauty? Causal evidence on the returns to education and attractiveness in the online dating market65
Medical bill shock and imperfect moral hazard58
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The medicaid windfall: Medicaid expansions and the target efficiency of hospital safety-net subsidies55
Immigrant inventors and local income taxes: Evidence from Swiss municipalities50
Politics from the Bench? Ideology and Strategic Voting in the U.S. Supreme Court49
Ordinal rank and the structure of ability peer effects47
Intergroup contact and nation building: Evidence from military service in Spain45
Tax enforcement using a hybrid between self- and third-party reporting44
The incidence of extreme economic stress: Evidence from utility disconnections42
Inequality as an externality: Consequences for tax design40
Tax losses and ex-ante offshore transfer of intellectual property38
Earnings information and public preferences for university tuition: Evidence from representative experiments36
Who benefits from public financing of home-based long term care? Evidence from Medicaid34
Do social media ads matter for political behavior? A field experiment32
Hierarchy and Information31
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How does group identification affect redistribution in representative democracies? An Experiment29
Do mandated health insurance benefits for diabetes save lives?27
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Television and American consumerism25
Do college students benefit from placement into higher-achieving classes?25
Emergency cash transfers for informal workers: Impact evidence from Mexico24
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Information, switching costs, and consumer choice: Evidence from two randomised field experiments in Swedish primary health care23
Worker and spousal responses to automatic enrollment23
Food subsidies in general equilibrium23
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News credibility and the quest for clicks22
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Encouragement and distortionary effects of conditional cash transfers20
Progressive consumption taxes20
Spillovers in fields of study: Siblings, cousins, and neighbors20
Tax curvature20
Electoral concerns reduce restrictive measures during the COVID-19 pandemic20
Optimal default options20
Minimum wage, social insurance mandate, and working hours20
The effect of required minimum distributions on intergenerational transfers20
Optimal tax policy and endogenous growth through innovation20
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Economic spillovers and political payoffs in government competition for firms: Evidence from the Kansas City Border War19
Tax competition in the presence of profit shifting19
Unemployment benefits and redundancies: Incidence and timing effects19
Projecting unemployment durations: A factor-flows simulation approach with application to the COVID-19 recession19
Bureaucrats under Populism19
Understanding the elasticity of taxable income: A tale of two approaches18
The impact of withdrawal penalties on retirement savings18
Intrahousehold inequality and the joint taxation of household earnings18
Intergenerational spillover effects of language training for refugees18
The children of HOPE VI demolitions: National evidence on labor market outcomes18
Later-life mortality and the repeal of federal prohibition17
Large learning gains in pockets of extreme poverty: Experimental evidence from Guinea Bissau17
Public good provision and property tax compliance: Evidence from a natural experiment17
Women’s economic empowerment and intimate partner violence17
Supply-side optimal capital taxation with endogenous wage inequality17
The effects of recreational marijuana laws on drug use and crime17
The effect of economic conditions on the disability insurance program: Evidence from the great recession17
Payroll tax incidence: Evidence from unemployment insurance16
The impossible trinity: Competitive markets, free entry, and efficiency16
Joint retirement of couples: Evidence from discontinuities in Denmark16
De Jure versus De Facto transparency: Corruption in local public office in India16
Does information affect homophily?16
Welfare effects of unemployment benefits when informality is high16
Home or away? Profit shifting with territorial taxation15
Optimal taxation with multiple dimensions of heterogeneity15
Income tax credits for consumer services: A tool for tackling VAT evasion?15
Disparate racial impacts of Shelby County v. Holder on voter turnout15
Natural gas flaring, respiratory health, and distributional effects15
Gender, beliefs, and coordination with externalities15
Mean markets or kind commerce?14
State responses to federal matching grants: The case of medicaid14
The demand for protection and the persistently high rates of gun violence among young black males14
Toward an understanding of tax amnesty take-up: Evidence from a natural field experiment14
Estimating structural demand and supply models using tax rates as instruments14
The salary taboo privacy norms and the diffusion of information14
Supply-side health policy: The impact of scope-of-practice laws on mortality14
An evaluation of the Paycheck Protection Program using administrative payroll microdata14
A note on optimal taxation, status consumption, and unemployment13
Rethinking principal effects on student outcomes13
Partisan spatial sorting in the United States: A theoretical and empirical overview13
Institutional flexibility, political alternation, and middle-of-the-road policies13
ICT, collaboration, and innovation: Evidence from BITNET13
Uncovering illegal and underground economies: The case of mafia extortion racketeering13
The long-run impacts of adolescent drinking: Evidence from Zero Tolerance Laws13
The effects of post-Dobbs abortion bans on fertility13
Spot price biases in non-linear health insurance contracts13
Anti-corruption campaign, political connections, and court bias: Evidence from Chinese corporate lawsuits13
Sources of inertia in the individual health insurance market13
Provider turf wars and Medicare payment rules12
The effect of highly publicized police killings on policing: Evidence from large U.S. cities12
Courts, Crime and Economic Performance: Evidence from a Judicial Reform in Kenya12
Do elections affect immigration? Evidence from French municipalities12
Centralization and regulatory enforcement: Evidence from personnel authority reform in China12
Just above the exam cutoff score: Elite college admission and wages in China12
How do government transfer payments affect retail prices and welfare? Evidence from SNAP12
Ministers Engage in Favoritism Too12
Eliciting preferences for income redistribution: A new survey item12
Declining earnings inequality, rising income inequality: What explains discordant inequality trends in the United States?11
R&D tax credits and innovation11
Identity breeds inequality: Evidence from a laboratory experiment on redistribution11
An older college professor like me11
Limits to third-party reporting: Evidence from a randomized field experiment in Norway11
How in-person conversations shape political polarization: Quasi-experimental evidence from a nationwide initiative10
Learning the hard way: Conflicts, sanctions and military aid10
The impact of the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation on job search and vacancy creation10
Labor market regulations and firm adjustments in skill demand10
From viewers to voters: Tracing Fox News’ impact on American democracy10
Parents’ effective time endowment and divorce: Evidence from extended school days10
Cash on the table? Imperfect take-up of tax incentives and firm investment behavior10
The effects of public campaign funding: Evidence from Seattle’s Democracy Voucher program9
Heterogeneity in the pass-through from oil to gasoline prices: A new instrument for estimating the price elasticity of gasoline demand9
Guns and roses: Police complicity in organized prostitution9
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Do temporary workers experience additional employment and earnings risk after workplace injuries?9
Credit access and housing insecurity: Evidence from winter utility shutoff protections9
Do senators and house members beat the stock market? Evidence from the STOCK Act9
Medicaid and provider supply9
The employment effects of collective wage bargaining9
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The zero-rent society: Evidence from hydropower and petroleum windfalls in Norwegian local governments9
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The safety net and job loss: How much insurance do public programs provide?9
Estimating labor supply responses to Danish tax reforms9
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Cutting special interests by the roots: Evidence from the Brazilian Amazon9
Sequential agenda setting with strategic and informative voting9
The (in)visible hand: Do workers discriminate against employers?9
Informative fundraising: The signaling value of seed money and matching gifts8
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COVID-19, college academic performance, and the flexible grading policy: A longitudinal analysis8
The effects of legal representation on tenant outcomes in housing court: Evidence from New York City’s Universal Access program8
The unintended consequences of merit-based teacher selection: Evidence from a large-scale reform in Colombia8
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The informational value of environmental taxes8
Consumption tax cuts vs stimulus payments8
Affirmative action and its race-neutral alternatives8
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Tax enforcement and the intended and unintended consequences of information disclosure8
Labor supply and automation innovation: Evidence from an allocation policy8
How fiscally autonomous are local governments? An empirical test8
The intergenerational effects of welfare transfers among single mothers: Evidence from an Israeli welfare reform8
One step ahead of the law: The net effect of anticipation and implementation of Colombia’s illegal crops substitution program8
Committees as active audiences: Reputation concerns and information acquisition8
Technological change, campaign spending and polarization8
The response to dynamic incentives in insurance contracts with a deductible: Evidence from a differences-in-regression-discontinuities design8
Timing matters: Intra-day shifts of economic activity and ambient ozone concentrations8
Energy efficiency can deliver for climate policy: Evidence from machine learning-based targeting8
Where and why do politicians send pork? Evidence from central government transfers to French municipalities8
Quid pro quo? Government-firm relationships in China7
My home is my castle – The benefits of working from home during a pandemic crisis7
Efficient policy interventions in an epidemic7
The consequences of job search monitoring for the long-term unemployed: Disability instead of employment?7
Sophistication about self-control7
Changes in household diet: Determinants and predictability7
A social norm nudge to save more: A field experiment at a retail bank7
Effect of a transfer shock on subnational debt: Micro evidence from Mexico7
Moral hazard in electoral teams: List rank and campaign effort7
Judicial subversion: The effects of political power on court outcomes7
How much violence does football hooliganism cause?7
Performance pay, productivity, and strategic opt-out: Evidence from a community health center7
Doctor switching costs7
Tax competition effects of a minimum tax rate: Empirical evidence from German municipalities7
Gridlock, leverage, and policy bundling7
Occupy government: Democracy and the dynamics of personnel decisions and public finances7
Data-driven incentive alignment in capitation schemes7
Whether, when and how to extend unemployment benefits: Theory and application to COVID-197
Cleaning up the Great Lakes: Housing market impacts of removing legacy pollutants7
Moral hazard in insurance: Theory and evidence from a credit reform in Ghana7
The EITC and the extensive margin: A reappraisal7
Optimal tax systems with endogenous behavioral biases7
When scale and replication work: Learning from summer youth employment experiments7
The long run impact of childhood interracial contact on residential segregation7
Decentralizing corruption: Irrigation reform in Pakistan7
Preference responsibility versus poverty reduction in the taxation of labor incomes7
The effect of the US safety net on material hardship over two decades6
Infrastructure maintenance and rural economic activity: Evidence from India6
All is not lost: Organized crime and social capital formation6
Does granting refugee status to family-reunified women improve their integration?6
Social mobility in Germany6
The econometrics of happiness: Are we underestimating the returns to education and income?6
A preference-based theory unifying monetary and non-monetary poverty measurement6
School segregation in the presence of student sorting and cream-skimming: Evidence from a school voucher reform6
The intergenerational (Im)mobility of immigrants6
The short- and long-run impacts of secondary school absences6
Uneven recessions and optimal firm subsidies6
Heard the news? Environmental policy and clean investments6
The gatekeeper’s dilemma: Political selection or team effort6
Organized crime, violence and support for the state6
Competence-loyalty tradeoff under dominant minority rule: The case of Manchu rule, 1650-19116
Transitory income changes and consumption smoothing: Evidence from Mexico6
Fairness and limited information: Are people Bayesian meritocrats?6
Identifying behavioral responses to tax reforms: New insights and a new approach6
Reducing partisanship in judicial elections can improve judge quality: Evidence from U.S. state supreme courts6
The “Privatization” of municipal debt6
Understanding policing in the aftermath of gun violence: Examining investigatory stops and crime in Chicago6
What motivates non-democratic leadership: Evidence from COVID-19 reopenings in China6
Long-term effects of hiring subsidies for low-educated unemployed youths6
Self-signaling in voting6
With a little help from my friends. Political competition in the shadow of organized crime6
Do housing regulations affect child development? Evidence and mechanisms6
The effects of physician vertical integration on referral patterns, patient welfare, and market dynamics6
Do higher income taxes on top earners trickle down? A local labor markets approach5
Are students time constrained? Course load, GPA, and failing5
Who truly bears (bank) taxes? Evidence from only shifting statutory incidence5
Money versus Kudos: The impact of incentivizing local politicians in India5
Dynamic electoral competition with voter loss-aversion and imperfect recall5
More opportunity, more cooperation? The behavioral effects of birthright citizenship on immigrant youth5
Immigrant legalization and the redistribution of state funds: Evidence from the 1986 IRCA5
When (and why) providers do not respond to changes in reimbursement rates5
A dynamic model of fiscal decentralization and public debt accumulation5
When the great equalizer shuts down: Schools, peers, and parents in pandemic times5
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Spatial inequality of opportunity in West Africa5
Incumbents’ performance and political extremism5
Employer-sponsored health insurance premiums and income in U.S. tax data5
The air quality and well-being effects of low emission zones5
Financial repercussions of SNAP work requirements5
Simulated power analyses for observational studies: An application to the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion5
What do bequests in married couples with a surviving spouse tell us about bequest motives?5
Are consumers attentive to local energy costs? Evidence from the appliance market5
Investment differences between public and private firms: Evidence from U.S. tax returns5
Income effects and labour supply: Evidence from a child benefits reform5
Crowd-out in school-based health interventions: Evidence from India’s midday meals program5
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Aging and public financing costs: Evidence from U.S. municipal bond markets5
Environmental taxes and productivity: Lessons from Canadian manufacturing5
Do renewable energy investments create local jobs?5
Small-group instruction to improve student performance in mathematics in early grades: Results from a randomized field experiment5
Real responses to anti-tax avoidance: Evidence from the UK Worldwide Debt Cap5
Subsidizing low- and middle-income adoption of electric vehicles: Quasi-experimental evidence from California5
Measuring take-up of the California EITC with state administrative data4
Technology and the state: Building capacity to tax via text4
Place-based consequences of person-based transfers: Evidence from recessions4
Can judiciaries constrain executive power? Evidence from judicial reforms4
The emergence of private high schools in India: The impact of public-private competition on public school students4
On the optimal reform of income support for single parents4
Minimum wages, retirement timing, and labor supply4
Pass-through, welfare, and incidence under imperfect competition4
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