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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
How many jobs can be done at home?804
Inequality in the impact of the coronavirus shock: Evidence from real time surveys730
Economic uncertainty before and during the COVID-19 pandemic506
Polarization and public health: Partisan differences in social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic461
The impact of COVID-19 on student experiences and expectations: Evidence from a survey445
Trust and compliance to public health policies in times of COVID-19432
COVID-19, lockdowns and well-being: Evidence from Google Trends368
Fear, lockdown, and diversion: Comparing drivers of pandemic economic decline 2020306
Human mobility restrictions and the spread of the Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in China306
Sheltering in place and domestic violence: Evidence from calls for service during COVID-19275
Labor demand in the time of COVID-19: Evidence from vacancy postings and UI claims232
Suffering in silence: How COVID-19 school closures inhibit the reporting of child maltreatment178
Early evidence of the impacts of COVID-19 on minority unemployment163
Inequality in household adaptation to schooling shocks: Covid-induced online learning engagement in real time151
Civic capital and social distancing during the Covid-19 pandemic☆149
Prosociality predicts health behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic138
Asocial capital: Civic culture and social distancing during COVID-19111
The heterogeneous and regressive consequences of COVID-19: Evidence from high quality panel data97
COVID and crime: An early empirical look93
Disentangling policy effects using proxy data: Which shutdown policies affected unemployment during the COVID-19 pandemic?89
When carbon emission trading meets a regulated industry: Evidence from the electricity sector of China89
Intimate partner violence under forced cohabitation and economic stress: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic85
My home is my castle – The benefits of working from home during a pandemic crisis75
“Rugged individualism” and collective (in)action during the COVID-19 pandemic74
When the great equalizer shuts down: Schools, peers, and parents in pandemic times73
Information frictions and access to the Paycheck Protection Program68
Revenge of the experts: Will COVID-19 renew or diminish public trust in science?66
Job search during the COVID-19 crisis65
US unemployment insurance replacement rates during the pandemic60
Economic preferences and compliance in the social stress test of the COVID-19 crisis60
Labor market concerns and support for immigration59
What the COVID-19 school closure left in its wake: Evidence from a regression discontinuity analysis in Japan50
A theory of informational autocracy48
Political hierarchy and regional economic development: Evidence from a spatial discontinuity in China43
Environmental regulations and international trade: A quantitative economic analysis of world pollution emissions42
Inequality of fear and self-quarantine: Is there a trade-off between GDP and public health?40
State and local government employment in the COVID-19 crisis40
Decentralization and efficiency of subsidy targeting: Evidence from chiefs in rural Malawi38
Does re-opening schools contribute to the spread of SARS-CoV-2? Evidence from staggered summer breaks in Germany38
Teacher accountability reforms and the supply and quality of new teachers37
The short- and long-run impacts of secondary school absences37
Racial discrimination in transportation network companies36
Can gender quotas in candidate lists empower women? Evidence from a regression discontinuity design35
An evaluation of the Paycheck Protection Program using administrative payroll microdata35
The urban crime and heat gradient in high and low poverty areas34
Just above the exam cutoff score: Elite college admission and wages in China34
Electoral concerns reduce restrictive measures during the COVID-19 pandemic34
Federalism, partial prohibition, and cross-border sales: Evidence from recreational marijuana33
Migration, externalities, and the diffusion of COVID-19 in South Asia☆33
What can we learn about household consumption expenditure from data on income and assets?32
The long-term effects of childhood exposure to the earned income tax credit on health outcomes32
Digitalization to improve tax compliance: Evidence from VAT e-Invoicing in Peru32
Do Americans want to tax wealth? Evidence from online surveys31
How individuals respond to a liquidity shock: Evidence from the 2013 government shutdown30
Broadband Internet and social capital30
Media competition, information provision and political participation: Evidence from French local newspapers and elections, 1944–201430
Tax evasion and tax avoidance29
Family and government insurance: Wage, earnings, and income risks in the Netherlands and the U.S.29
Environmental taxes and productivity: Lessons from Canadian manufacturing28
Asymmetric information in residential rental markets: Implications for the energy efficiency gap28
The macroeconomic effects of lockdown policies28
Unmasking partisanship: Polarization undermines public response to collective risk27
Real-time price indices: Inflation spike and falling product variety during the Great Lockdown27
Intergenerational mobility in self-reported health status in the US27
Stalin and the origins of mistrust27
Understanding day care enrolment gaps26
Fatal attraction? Extended unemployment benefits, labor force exits, and mortality26
Can access to health care mitigate the effects of temperature on mortality?26
Divided we stay home: Social distancing and ethnic diversity25
Cross-border tax evasion after the common reporting standard: Game over?25
Non-durable consumption and housing net worth in the Great Recession: Evidence from easily accessible data24
Measuring economic efficiency using inverse-optimum weights24
Technology and tax systems23
Reducing discrimination in the field: Evidence from an awareness raising intervention targeting gender biases in student evaluations of teaching22
How can Bill and Melinda Gates increase other people's donations to fund public goods?22
Time inconsistent charitable giving22
Inequality in socio-emotional skills: A cross-cohort comparison22
Losing public health insurance: TennCare reform and personal financial distress21
When the minimum wage really bites hard: The negative spillover effect on high-skilled workers21
Tax evasion, capital gains taxes, and the housing market21
Entry through the narrow door: The costs of just failing high stakes exams21
Optimal progressivity with age-dependent taxation20
Collective action in networks: Evidence from the Chilean student movement20
The effect of the US safety net on material hardship over two decades19
When guidance changes: Government stances and public beliefs18
Subsidizing low- and middle-income adoption of electric vehicles: Quasi-experimental evidence from California17
Do EITC expansions pay for themselves? Effects on tax revenue and government transfers17
The impact of the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation on job search and vacancy creation17
Natural gas flaring, respiratory health, and distributional effects17
The impact of taxing vacancy on housing markets: Evidence from France17
Do place-based tax incentives create jobs?17
Labor market policies during an epidemic17
Public good provision and property tax compliance: Evidence from a natural experiment17
COVID-19, college academic performance, and the flexible grading policy: A longitudinal analysis17
The global minimum tax16
Thinking outside the box: The cross-border effect of tax cuts on R&D16
What motivates non-democratic leadership: Evidence from COVID-19 reopenings in China16
Do environmental markets cause environmental injustice? Evidence from California’s carbon market16
Heard it through the grapevine: The direct and network effects of a tax enforcement field experiment on firms16
The effect of economic conditions on the disability insurance program: Evidence from the great recession16
Long-run pollution exposure and mortality: Evidence from the Acid Rain Program16
Does higher Institutional Quality improve the Appropriateness of Healthcare Provision?16
Aging and public financing costs: Evidence from U.S. municipal bond markets15
The Pandemic’s effect on demand for public schools, homeschooling, and private schools15
Whether, when and how to extend unemployment benefits: Theory and application to COVID-1915
Sharing the pie: An analysis of undernutrition and individual consumption in Bangladesh15
The power of the IUD: Effects of expanding access to contraception through Title X clinics15
The anatomy of behavioral responses to social assistance when informal employment is high15
The Social Value of Health Insurance: Results from Ghana15
Is four less than five? Effects of four-day school weeks on student achievement in Oregon14
Home prices, fertility, and early-life health outcomes14
Surviving a mass shooting14
Moral hazard in electoral teams: List rank and campaign effort14
Cost saving and the freezing of corporate pension plans14
Politics and the distribution of federal funds: Evidence from federal legislation in response to COVID-1914
Educational inequality and public policy preferences: Evidence from representative survey experiments14
Noise pollution and violent crime☆14
The value of registry data for consumption analysis: An application to health shocks14
A simple dynamic climate cooperation model14
The credit consequences of unpaid medical bills14
Costs of energy efficiency mandates can reverse the sign of rebound14
Projecting unemployment durations: A factor-flows simulation approach with application to the COVID-19 recession14
Drug firms’ payments and physicians’ prescribing behavior in Medicare Part D13
Relaxing household liquidity constraints through social security13
Value for money? Vote-buying and politician accountability13
Disguised pollution: Industrial activities in the dark13
The effect of highly publicized police killings on policing: Evidence from large U.S. cities13
False alarm? Estimating the marginal value of health signals13
Earnings shocks and stabilization during COVID-1913
Sources of inertia in the individual health insurance market13
Preferences for power12
Pass-through, welfare, and incidence under imperfect competition12
Parental monitoring and children's internet use: The role of information, control, and cues12
Is immigration enforcement shaping immigrant marriage patterns?12
Fiscal multipliers in advanced and developing countries: Evidence from military spending12
Home bias in humanitarian aid: The role of regional favoritism in the allocation of international disaster relief12
Missing markets: Evidence on agricultural groundwater demand from volumetric pricing12
Advertising and media capture: The case of climate change12
Providing performance information in education: An experimental evaluation in Colombia11
Estimating long-run income inequality from mixed tabular data: Empirical evidence from Norway, 1875–201711
Real responses to anti-tax avoidance: Evidence from the UK Worldwide Debt Cap11
First impressions: How leader changes affect bilateral aid11
School district revenue shocks, resource allocations, and student achievement: Evidence from the universe of U.S. wind energy installations11
Knowledge spillovers, peer effects, and telecommuting: Evidence from the U.S. Patent Office11
Optimal tax systems with endogenous behavioral biases11
Disentangling retirement and savings responses11
Pension incentives and labor supply: Evidence from the introduction of universal old-age assistance in the UK11
Tax filing and take-up: Experimental evidence on tax preparation outreach and benefit claiming11
A social norm nudge to save more: A field experiment at a retail bank11
A dynamic model of fiscal decentralization and public debt accumulation11
Building trust in the state with information: Evidence from urban Punjab10
Who benefits from tax incentives? The heterogeneous wage incidence of a tax credit10
Cash on the table? Imperfect take-up of tax incentives and firm investment behavior10
Bureaucrats under Populism10
Small business tax compliance under third-party reporting10
Are changes of organizational form costly? Income shifting and business entry responses to taxes10
How much to save? Decision costs and retirement plan participation10
Designed to fail: Effects of the default option and information complexity on student loan repayment10
Adjustment cost and incentives to work: Evidence from a disability insurance program10
My (running) mate, the mayor: Political ties and access to public sector jobs in Ecuador10
Benefit duration, job search behavior and re-employment10
Firm mobility and jurisdictions’ tax rate choices: Evidence from immobile firm entry9
Home or away? Profit shifting with territorial taxation9
Intergroup contact and nation building: Evidence from military service in Spain9
Fuel economy and the price of gasoline: Evidence from fueling-level micro data9
The heterogeneous price of a vote: Evidence from multiparty systems, 1993–20179
Inheritance taxation and wealth effects on the labor supply of heirs9
Political differences in air pollution abatement under the Clean Air Act9
ICT, collaboration, and innovation: Evidence from BITNET9
Estimating taxable income responses with elasticity heterogeneity9
Optimal taxes on capital in the OLG model with uninsurable idiosyncratic income risk9
The macroeconomic effects of a carbon tax to meet the U.S. Paris agreement target: The role of firm creation and technology adoption9
Online shopping can redistribute local tax revenue from urban to rural America9
Gender and lawmaking in times of quotas9
Quid pro quo? Government-firm relationships in China9
Minimum wage policy with optimal taxes and unemployment9
The effects of introducing withholding and third-party reporting on tax collections: Evidence from the U.S. state personal income tax9
Legislating during war: Conflict and politics in Colombia9
Diversity and team performance in a Kenyan organization☆9
Spillover effects of stricter immigration policies8
Women’s representation in politics: The effect of electoral systems8
What determines school segregation? The crucial role of neighborhood factors8
An extra year to learn English? Early grade retention and the human capital development of English learners8
Investment differences between public and private firms: Evidence from U.S. tax returns8
The incidence of extreme economic stress: Evidence from utility disconnections8
The minimum wage, informal pay, and tax enforcement8
Counting on my vote not counting: Expressive voting in committees8
More opportunity, more cooperation? The behavioral effects of birthright citizenship on immigrant youth8
The place-based effects of police stations on crime: Evidence from station closures8
Changes in household diet: Determinants and predictability8
Hysteresis from employer subsidies8
VAT compliance, trade, and institutions8
Who pays for and who benefits from minimum wage increases? Evidence from Israeli tax data on business owners and workers8
Speed limit enforcement and road safety8
When financial aid is scarce: The challenge of allocating college aid where it is needed most8
Partisan spatial sorting in the United States: A theoretical and empirical overview8
A more comprehensive estimate of the value of water quality7
Guns and violence: The enduring impact of crack cocaine markets on young black males7
The informational value of environmental taxes7
Anti-corruption campaign, political connections, and court bias: Evidence from Chinese corporate lawsuits7
The effects of corporate taxes on small firms7
Coal use, air pollution, and student performance7
The welfare effects of extending unemployment benefits: Evidence from re-employment and unemployment transfers7
Relabeling, retirement and regret7
Optimal income taxation with labor supply responses at two margins: When is an Earned Income Tax Credit optimal?7
Mean markets or kind commerce?7
The effect of reduced student loan borrowing on academic performance and default: Evidence from a loan counseling experiment7
Too family friendly? The consequences of parent part-time working rights7
Overclaimed refunds, undeclared sales, and invoice mills: Nature and extent of noncompliance in a value-added tax7
Do people demand fact-checked news? Evidence from U.S. Democrats7
Are consumers attentive to local energy costs? Evidence from the appliance market7
Attribution bias in major decisions: Evidence from the United States Military Academy7
Syringe exchange programs and harm reduction: New evidence in the wake of the opioid epidemic6
Behavioral responses to inheritance and gift taxation: Evidence from Germany6
The impacts of Covid-19 absences on workers6
Taxation, accountability, and cash transfers: Breaking the resource curse6
The dynamics of linking permit markets6
Community monitoring and crime: Evidence from Chicago's Safe Passage Program6
Can judiciaries constrain executive power? Evidence from judicial reforms6
Information, switching costs, and consumer choice: Evidence from two randomised field experiments in Swedish primary health care6
Suing the government under weak rule of law: Evidence from administrative litigation reform in China6
Escaping the exchange of information: Tax evasion via citizenship-by-investment6
Offshore tax evasion and wealth inequality: Evidence from a tax amnesty in the Netherlands6
The economics of religious communities6
Political manipulation of urban land markets: Evidence from China6
Deathbed tax planning6
Misaligned incentives and the scale of incarceration in the United States6
Ordinal rank and the structure of ability peer effects6
School quality and the return to schooling in Britain: New evidence from a large-scale compulsory schooling reform6
Reference points and redistributive preferences: Experimental evidence6
Preference heterogeneity and school segregation6
An empirical test of hypercongestion in highway bottlenecks6
Test scores and educational opportunities: Panel evidence from five low- and middle-income countries6
Crowd-out in school-based health interventions: Evidence from India’s midday meals program6
Micro-targeting and polarization6
Spot price biases in non-linear health insurance contracts6
The medicaid windfall: Medicaid expansions and the target efficiency of hospital safety-net subsidies5
Optimal intergenerational transfers: Public education and pensions5
Infrastructure maintenance and rural economic activity: Evidence from India5
Optimal tax policy and endogenous growth through innovation5
Large learning gains in pockets of extreme poverty: Experimental evidence from Guinea Bissau5
Brains or beauty? Causal evidence on the returns to education and attractiveness in the online dating market5
Statutory incidence and sales tax compliance: Evidence from Wayfair5
One step ahead of the law: The net effect of anticipation and implementation of Colombia’s illegal crops substitution program5
The salary taboo privacy norms and the diffusion of information5
Intergenerational spillover effects of language training for refugees5
Housing liquidity and long-term care insurance demand: A quantitative evaluation5
Limits to third-party reporting: Evidence from a randomized field experiment in Norway5
A natural experiment on discrimination in elections5
How do government transfer payments affect retail prices and welfare? Evidence from SNAP5
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