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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Testing above the limit: Drinking water contamination and test scores156
Do mandated health insurance benefits for diabetes save lives?118
News credibility and the quest for clicks96
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The pond dilemma with heterogeneous relative concerns70
State Auto-IRA policies and firm behavior: Lessons from administrative tax data54
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“Not ready” as a productive wake-up call: Do second chances improve human capital investments?46
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Earnings information and public preferences for university tuition: Evidence from representative experiments43
Welfare effects of unemployment benefits when informality is high42
Air pollution as comparative disadvantage42
How do government transfer payments affect retail prices and welfare? Evidence from SNAP41
Spillovers in fields of study: Siblings, cousins, and neighbors39
Immigrant inventors and local income taxes: Evidence from Swiss municipalities36
R&D tax credits and innovation34
De Jure versus De Facto transparency: Corruption in local public office in India34
Later-life mortality and the repeal of federal prohibition34
Women’s economic empowerment and intimate partner violence33
Progressive consumption taxes33
Income tax credits for consumer services: A tool for tackling VAT evasion?33
Curbing pretextual stops: Police efficiency and racial disparities31
Cronies in the courtroom: Political interference and judicial reforms30
Can changes in disability insurance work incentives influence beneficiary employment? Evidence from the promoting opportunity demonstration29
Inference for welfare metrics29
Credit access and housing insecurity: Evidence from winter utility shutoff protections29
With a little help from my friends. Political competition in the shadow of organized crime29
Estimating intergenerational returns to medical care: New evidence from at-risk newborns28
Private response to exclusionary welfare policy: Evidence from Italian municipalities28
The effects of legal representation on tenant outcomes in housing court: Evidence from New York City’s Universal Access program27
Competence-loyalty tradeoff under dominant minority rule: The case of Manchu rule, 1650-191127
Editorial Board26
Affirmative action and its race-neutral alternatives26
Tax enforcement and the intended and unintended consequences of information disclosure26
Industrial automation and local public goods25
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Preempting polarization: An experiment on opinion formation24
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Statutory incidence and sales tax compliance: Evidence from Wayfair24
Easing renegotiation rules in public procurement: Evidence from a policy reform23
Myths of official measurement: Limits to test-based education reforms with weak governance23
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Beyond lost earnings: Job displacement and the cost of commuting23
Political leaders and macroeconomic expectations: Evidence from a global survey experiment22
Personal norms — and not only social norms — shape economic behavior22
Do mandatory disclosures squeeze the lemons? The case of housing markets in India22
Political accountability for populist policies: Lessons from the world’s largest democracy22
The division of parental leave: Empirical evidence and policy design22
Representative compensation and disability claimant outcomes22
Neighborhoods, perceived Inequality, and preferences for Redistribution: Evidence from Barcelona21
Who truly bears (bank) taxes? Evidence from only shifting statutory incidence21
Assessing the impact of grade retention: A cautionary tale of exclusion restriction violations21
Place-based consequences of person-based transfers: Evidence from recessions21
Targeted regulation for reducing high-ozone events20
Financial repercussions of SNAP work requirements20
Firm responses to book income alternative minimum taxes20
Pass-through, welfare, and incidence under imperfect competition20
Medical residency subsidies and physician shortages20
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Recovering voice through out-of-district donations19
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The effects of labor market opportunities on education: The case of a female hiring ceiling in Iran19
The dynamics of cohort effect in politics19
Crowding out crowd support? Substitution between formal and informal insurance18
Does weak enforcement deter tax progressivity?18
The Pandemic’s effect on demand for public schools, homeschooling, and private schools18
Subjective well-being and social desirability18
The effect of war on redistribution preferences18
Noise pollution and violent crime☆17
Does single-sex schooling help or hurt labor market outcomes? Evidence from a natural experiment in South Korea17
Political manipulation of urban land markets: Evidence from China17
Weather and U.S. railways: risk, adaptation, and congestion17
Academic mobility in U.S. public schools: Evidence from nearly 3 million students17
Landmines: The local effects of demining17
Cleaner water and higher housing prices: Evidence from China☆17
Using schooling decisions to estimate the elasticity of marginal utility of consumption16
Populism and ideological convergence: Evidence from a multiparty system16
Intergenerational effect of an education stipend program on child development: Evidence from Bangladesh16
The importance of schools in driving children’s applications for disability benefits16
Moving to density: Half a century of housing costs and wage premia from Queens to King Salmon16
Does candidates’ media exposure affect vote shares? Evidence from Pope breaking news16
Editorial Board16
Misperceived effectiveness and the demand for psychotherapy15
Voters and the trade-off between policy stability and responsiveness15
Winters of discontent15
Climate and migration in the United States15
Who benefits from pharmaceutical price controls? Evidence from India15
The devil is in the details: Heterogeneous effects of the German minimum wage on working hours and minijobs15
Optimal taxation of risky entrepreneurial capital15
School equalization in the shadow of Jim Crow: Causes and consequences of resource disparity in Mississippi circa 194015
Economic activity and biodiversity in the United States15
The persistent impact of electoral incentives on the quality of infrastructure15
Inside the West Wing: Lobbying as a contest15
The impacts of Covid-19 absences on workers14
International college students’ impact on the US skilled labor supply14
Poverty spillovers in human capital Formation: Evidence from randomized class assignments in China14
Migrant exposure and anti-migrant sentiment: The case of the Venezuelan exodus14
Reducing child marriages through CCTs: Evidence from a large-scale policy intervention in Indonesia14
Fallen women: Recessions and the supply of sex work14
The scale and nature of neighborhood effects on children14
Spend as you were told: Evidence from labeled COVID-19 stimulus payments in South Korea14
The unintended consequences of accountability: Quasi-experimental evidence from policing in Pakistan14
Digitalization to improve tax compliance: Evidence from VAT e-Invoicing in Peru14
Teacher-led innovations to improve education outcomes: Experimental evidence from Brazil14
Offshore tax evasion and wealth inequality: Evidence from a tax amnesty in the Netherlands14
The decline of manufacturing employment and the rise of the far-right in Austria13
Occupational licensing in US public schools: Nationwide implementation of Teacher Performance Assessment13
The political economy of coastal development13
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The impact of diversity on perceptions of income distribution and preferences for redistribution13
Auctions for risk-averse non-profits13
Race-blind admissions, school segregation, and student outcomes13
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Combining rules and discretion in economic development policy: Evidence on the impacts of the California Competes Tax Credit13
National parks and economic development13
Risky moms, risky kids? fertility and crime after the fall of the wall12
The environmental costs of political interference: Evidence from power plants in the Amazon12
Escaping the exchange of information: Tax evasion via citizenship-by-investment12
The market-level effects of charter schools on student outcomes: A national analysis of school districts12
The children of HOPE VI demolitions: National evidence on labor market outcomes12
Wealth tax enforcement in Sweden: Filing requirements and pre-populated returns12
New evidence on the efficacy of state-based retirement programs: The case of OregonSaves12
The effect of required minimum distributions on intergenerational transfers12
Frames, incentives, and education: Effectiveness of interventions to delay public pension claiming12
Worker and spousal responses to automatic enrollment12
Choice and consequence: Assessing mismatch at Chicago exam schools12
Correlation in state and local tax changes12
Effects of speed-schools in Niger12
Prices vs quantities with risk aversion12
Primary care providers’ influence on opioid use and its adverse consequences12
Gender, beliefs, and coordination with externalities11
Do elections affect immigration? Evidence from French municipalities11
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Labor market regulations and firm adjustments in skill demand11
Almost fare free: Impact of a cheap public transport ticket on mobility patterns and train delays11
Medical bill shock and imperfect moral hazard11
Politics from the Bench? Ideology and Strategic Voting in the U.S. Supreme Court11
Social influence and carbon dioxide mitigation11
Toward an understanding of tax amnesty take-up: Evidence from a natural field experiment11
Committees as active audiences: Reputation concerns and information acquisition11
The salary taboo privacy norms and the diffusion of information11
Women leaders improve environmental outcomes: Evidence from crop fires in India11
Tax losses and ex-ante offshore transfer of intellectual property11
The impact of withdrawal penalties on retirement savings11
Does information affect homophily?11
Uncovering illegal and underground economies: The case of mafia extortion racketeering11
Judicial subversion: The effects of political power on court outcomes11
How do business owners respond to a tax cut? Examining the 199A deduction for pass-through firms11
Marketing authorization and strategic patenting: Evidence from pharmaceuticals11
Occupy government: Democracy and the dynamics of personnel decisions and public finances10
Infrastructure maintenance and rural economic activity: Evidence from India10
Identity breeds inequality: Evidence from a laboratory experiment on redistribution10
Protectionism, evasion and household welfare evidence from Nigeria’s import bans10
The “Privatization” of municipal debt10
What happens when women suddenly stop receiving cash transfers?10
The disenrollment and labor market effects of SNAP work requirements on parents10
The effects of public campaign funding: Evidence from Seattle’s Democracy Voucher program10
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Gulags, crime, and elite violence: Origins and consequences of the Russian mafia10
Organized crime, violence and support for the state10
Mortgages, Subways and Automobiles10
The effects of physician vertical integration on referral patterns, patient welfare, and market dynamics10
Household production time and inequality in material living standards in the U.S., 1965–20189
The impact of unexpected delays in periodic payments on consumption9
Technology and the state: Building capacity to tax via text9
Regulatory arbitrage in teacher hiring and retention: Evidence from Massachusetts Charter Schools9
Subsidizing low- and middle-income adoption of electric vehicles: Quasi-experimental evidence from California9
Entrepreneurship and top marginal tax rates9
The economic consequences of being widowed by war: A life-cycle perspective9
Measuring take-up of the California EITC with state administrative data9
Rounded Up: Using round numbers to identify tax evasion9
The impact of increased exposure of diversity on suburban students’ outcomes: An analysis of the METCO voluntary desegregation program9
From syringes to dishes: Improving food sufficiency through vaccination9
Self-signaling in voting9
Taxing Uber9
Partisan political beliefs and social learning9
Dangerous prescribing and healthcare fragmentation: Evidence from opioids9
The value of relationships in healthcare9
Effects of restrictive abortion legislation on cohort mortality evidence from 19th century law variation9
Sequential referenda with sophisticated voters9
Immigrant legalization and the redistribution of state funds: Evidence from the 1986 IRCA9
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Heterogeneity in the pass-through from oil to gasoline prices: A new instrument for estimating the price elasticity of gasoline demand9
Centralized School choice with unequal outside options9
Employer-sponsored health insurance premiums and income in U.S. tax data9
When protection becomes exploitation: The impact of firing costs on Naïve Employees9
The political consequences of resource scarcity: Targeted spending in a water-stressed democracy8
Corrigendum to “Consumer sentiment towards Asians in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic”. [J. Public Econom. 247 (2025) 105396]8
TRAP’d Teens: Impacts of abortion provider regulations on fertility & education8
Unintended workplace safety consequences of minimum wages8
Income shocks, political support and voting behaviour8
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Behavioral cross-influence of a shadow tax bracket: Evidence from bunching where income tax liabilities start8
A quantitative evaluation of universal basic income8
The psychological gains from COVID-19 vaccination8
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Heads up: Does air pollution cause workplace accidents?8
Managing “Last Moment Behavior”: Non-binding target dates to reduce the spikes in task completion at deadlines8
Present bias in politics and self-committing treaties8
Using payroll taxes as a redistribution tool8
Time preferences and food choice8
Facilitating police reform: Body cameras, police-involved homicides, and law enforcement outcomes8
Human capital, unequal opportunities and productivity convergence: A global historical perspective, 1800–21008
Incentives, globalization, and redistribution7
A rising tide lifts all homes? Housing consumption trends for low-income households since the 1980s7
Read my lips? Taxes and elections7
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We’ve got you covered! The effect of public health insurance on rural entrepreneurship in China7
A quantitative analysis of subsidy competition in the U.S.7
Fiscal consequences of corporate tax avoidance7
Optional (non-)filing and effective taxation7
How do holistic wrap-around anti-poverty programs affect employment and individualized outcomes?7
Does going cashless make you tax-rich? Evidence from India’s demonetization experiment7
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Unemployment and tax design7
Lagged-price reimbursement contracts: The impact of medicare Part B on pharmaceutical price growth7
Is it possible to raise national happiness?7
Coal use, air pollution, and student performance7
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Support for renewable energy: The case of wind power7
Uniform brand-variant pricing and heterogeneous firm responses to excise taxes: Evidence from six U.S. cities7
Nonlinear taxation and international mobility in general equilibrium7
One hundred years of U.S. state taxation7
Do gender board quotas matter for working mothers? Evidence from state-owned firms in Italy7
Diminishing Target-based GDP Manipulation: Evidence from China6
Majority choice of taxation and redistribution in a federation6
Dynamics of evasion around tax thresholds: Evidence from Indian firms6
Football, alcohol, and domestic abuse6
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Anti-corruption campaign, political connections, and court bias: Evidence from Chinese corporate lawsuits6
The effects of workers’ compensation experience rating on workers’ absences and employment6
The effects of post-Dobbs abortion bans on fertility6
Beliefs about inequality and the nature of support for redistribution6
How did federal aid to states and localities affect testing and vaccine delivery?6
Syringe exchange programs and harm reduction: New evidence in the wake of the opioid epidemic6
Provider turf wars and Medicare payment rules6
Women’s labor market opportunities and equality in the household6
Home or away? Profit shifting with territorial taxation6
Television, health, and happiness: A natural experiment in West Germany6
Eliciting preferences for income redistribution: A new survey item6
An older college professor like me6
Externalities of climate adaptation in common-pool groundwater resources6
‘Earned, not given’? The effect of lowering the full retirement age on retirement decisions6
The impossible trinity: Competitive markets, free entry, and efficiency6
OK Boomer: Generational differences in teacher quality6
Combating cross-border externalities: Evidence from China’s inter-provincial ecological compensation initiatives6
State responses to federal matching grants: The case of medicaid6
Ordinal rank and the structure of ability peer effects6
Corrigendum to “Climate and migration in the United States”. [249 (2025) 105446]6
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