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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
News credibility and the quest for clicks157
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Do mandated health insurance benefits for diabetes save lives?70
Testing above the limit: Drinking water contamination and test scores66
Immigrant inventors and local income taxes: Evidence from Swiss municipalities61
Women’s economic empowerment and intimate partner violence55
The effect of highly publicized police killings on policing: Evidence from large U.S. cities54
Electoral concerns reduce restrictive measures during the COVID-19 pandemic50
How do government transfer payments affect retail prices and welfare? Evidence from SNAP49
R&D tax credits and innovation49
Welfare effects of unemployment benefits when informality is high49
Optimal tax policy and endogenous growth through innovation43
Income tax credits for consumer services: A tool for tackling VAT evasion?43
De Jure versus De Facto transparency: Corruption in local public office in India41
Spillovers in fields of study: Siblings, cousins, and neighbors38
Later-life mortality and the repeal of federal prohibition33
The effect of economic conditions on the disability insurance program: Evidence from the great recession33
Editorial Board33
Earnings information and public preferences for university tuition: Evidence from representative experiments31
Progressive consumption taxes31
With a little help from my friends. Political competition in the shadow of organized crime29
Competence-loyalty tradeoff under dominant minority rule: The case of Manchu rule, 1650-191129
Moral hazard in electoral teams: List rank and campaign effort29
Affirmative action and its race-neutral alternatives28
Moral hazard in insurance: Theory and evidence from a credit reform in Ghana26
Can changes in disability insurance work incentives influence beneficiary employment? Evidence from the promoting opportunity demonstration26
Tax enforcement and the intended and unintended consequences of information disclosure25
One step ahead of the law: The net effect of anticipation and implementation of Colombia’s illegal crops substitution program24
The effects of legal representation on tenant outcomes in housing court: Evidence from New York City’s Universal Access program24
Credit access and housing insecurity: Evidence from winter utility shutoff protections24
A social norm nudge to save more: A field experiment at a retail bank24
Efficient policy interventions in an epidemic24
The impact of the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation on job search and vacancy creation24
Editorial Board23
Preempting polarization: An experiment on opinion formation23
Financial repercussions of SNAP work requirements23
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Political accountability for populist policies: Lessons from the world’s largest democracy22
Myths of official measurement: Limits to test-based education reforms with weak governance22
Who truly bears (bank) taxes? Evidence from only shifting statutory incidence22
Can judiciaries constrain executive power? Evidence from judicial reforms22
Representative compensation and disability claimant outcomes22
Income and saving responses to tax incentives for private retirement savings22
Editorial Board21
Tradable immigration quotas revisited21
Government spending multipliers in (un)certain times21
Pass-through, welfare, and incidence under imperfect competition20
The division of parental leave: Empirical evidence and policy design20
Political leaders and macroeconomic expectations: Evidence from a global survey experiment20
Place-based consequences of person-based transfers: Evidence from recessions20
Do prize-linked incentives promote positive financial behavior? Evidence from a debt reduction intervention20
Editorial Board19
Neighborhoods, perceived Inequality, and preferences for Redistribution: Evidence from Barcelona19
Opportunity and inequality across generations19
Personal norms — and not only social norms — shape economic behavior19
Statutory incidence and sales tax compliance: Evidence from Wayfair19
Does candidates’ media exposure affect vote shares? Evidence from Pope breaking news18
Editorial Board18
The effects of labor market opportunities on education: The case of a female hiring ceiling in Iran18
The importance of schools in driving children’s applications for disability benefits17
Sharing the burden of subsidization: Evidence on pass-through from a subsidy revision in Medicare Part D17
Populism and ideological convergence: Evidence from a multiparty system17
The effect of war on redistribution preferences17
Targeted regulation for reducing high-ozone events17
Multilateral regime change16
Decentralization of wage determination: Evidence from a national teacher reform16
Moving to density: Half a century of housing costs and wage premia from Queens to King Salmon16
Noise pollution and violent crime☆16
Academic mobility in U.S. public schools: Evidence from nearly 3 million students16
Wealth inequality and the political economy of financial and labour regulations16
Firm responses to book income alternative minimum taxes16
Does single-sex schooling help or hurt labor market outcomes? Evidence from a natural experiment in South Korea16
Cleaner water and higher housing prices: Evidence from China☆16
Using schooling decisions to estimate the elasticity of marginal utility of consumption16
Surviving a mass shooting15
Small business tax compliance under third-party reporting15
The Pandemic’s effect on demand for public schools, homeschooling, and private schools15
Does weak enforcement deter tax progressivity?15
Spend as you were told: Evidence from labeled COVID-19 stimulus payments in South Korea15
Political manipulation of urban land markets: Evidence from China15
Inside the West Wing: Lobbying as a contest15
Subjective well-being and social desirability15
Editorial Board14
Misperceived effectiveness and the demand for psychotherapy14
The persistent impact of electoral incentives on the quality of infrastructure14
Optimal taxation of risky entrepreneurial capital14
Teacher-led innovations to improve education outcomes: Experimental evidence from Brazil14
Poverty spillovers in human capital Formation: Evidence from randomized class assignments in China14
The scale and nature of neighborhood effects on children14
Reducing child marriages through CCTs: Evidence from a large-scale policy intervention in Indonesia14
Offshore tax evasion and wealth inequality: Evidence from a tax amnesty in the Netherlands14
Voters and the trade-off between policy stability and responsiveness13
National parks and economic development13
International college students’ impact on the US skilled labor supply13
The impacts of Covid-19 absences on workers13
Migrant exposure and anti-migrant sentiment: The case of the Venezuelan exodus13
Contagion at work: Occupations, industries and human contact13
Can payroll tax cuts help firms during recessions?13
Digitalization to improve tax compliance: Evidence from VAT e-Invoicing in Peru12
Correlation in state and local tax changes12
Editorial Board12
Effects of speed-schools in Niger12
The political allocation of green pork and its implications for federal climate policy12
The environmental costs of political interference: Evidence from power plants in the Amazon12
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Risky moms, risky kids? fertility and crime after the fall of the wall11
Primary care providers’ influence on opioid use and its adverse consequences11
Sharing the pie: An analysis of undernutrition and individual consumption in Bangladesh11
Escaping the exchange of information: Tax evasion via citizenship-by-investment11
Diverting domestic turmoil11
Combining rules and discretion in economic development policy: Evidence on the impacts of the California Competes Tax Credit11
Ethnic geography: Measurement and evidence11
Time inconsistent charitable giving11
Race-blind admissions, school segregation, and student outcomes11
The decline of manufacturing employment and the rise of the far-right in Austria11
Long-term effects of grants and loans for vocational education11
New evidence on the efficacy of state-based retirement programs: The case of OregonSaves11
Choice and consequence: Assessing mismatch at Chicago exam schools11
Politics from the Bench? Ideology and Strategic Voting in the U.S. Supreme Court10
Do elections affect immigration? Evidence from French municipalities10
Editorial Board10
Occupational licensing in US public schools: Nationwide implementation of Teacher Performance Assessment10
The effect of emergency financial assistance on healthcare use10
When the minimum wage really bites hard: The negative spillover effect on high-skilled workers10
Bureaucrats under Populism10
The children of HOPE VI demolitions: National evidence on labor market outcomes10
The political economy of coastal development10
The impact of diversity on perceptions of income distribution and preferences for redistribution10
The impact of withdrawal penalties on retirement savings10
How do business owners respond to a tax cut? Examining the 199A deduction for pass-through firms10
The market-level effects of charter schools on student outcomes: A national analysis of school districts10
Learning from praise: Evidence from a field experiment with teachers10
The salary taboo privacy norms and the diffusion of information9
The effect of required minimum distributions on intergenerational transfers9
Worker and spousal responses to automatic enrollment9
Labor market regulations and firm adjustments in skill demand9
Committees as active audiences: Reputation concerns and information acquisition9
Judicial subversion: The effects of political power on court outcomes9
Self-signaling in voting9
Gender, beliefs, and coordination with externalities9
Medical bill shock and imperfect moral hazard9
Does information affect homophily?9
Editorial Board9
Informative fundraising: The signaling value of seed money and matching gifts9
Identity breeds inequality: Evidence from a laboratory experiment on redistribution9
Editorial Board9
Tax losses and ex-ante offshore transfer of intellectual property9
Toward an understanding of tax amnesty take-up: Evidence from a natural field experiment9
Uncovering illegal and underground economies: The case of mafia extortion racketeering9
Do temporary workers experience additional employment and earnings risk after workplace injuries?9
Occupy government: Democracy and the dynamics of personnel decisions and public finances9
Organized crime, violence and support for the state9
Technology and the state: Building capacity to tax via text8
Measuring take-up of the California EITC with state administrative data8
The effects of public campaign funding: Evidence from Seattle’s Democracy Voucher program8
Infrastructure maintenance and rural economic activity: Evidence from India8
Gulags, crime, and elite violence: Origins and consequences of the Russian mafia8
Quid pro quo? Government-firm relationships in China8
Editorial Board8
Employer-sponsored health insurance premiums and income in U.S. tax data8
The effects of physician retirement on patient outcomes: Anticipation and disruption8
The economic consequences of being widowed by war: A life-cycle perspective8
Do people demand fact-checked news? Evidence from U.S. Democrats8
The informational value of environmental taxes8
The “Privatization” of municipal debt8
Heterogeneity in the pass-through from oil to gasoline prices: A new instrument for estimating the price elasticity of gasoline demand8
Dangerous prescribing and healthcare fragmentation: Evidence from opioids8
Sequential referenda with sophisticated voters8
Rounded Up: Using round numbers to identify tax evasion8
The value of relationships in healthcare8
Immigrant legalization and the redistribution of state funds: Evidence from the 1986 IRCA8
The place-based effects of police stations on crime: Evidence from station closures8
Partisan political beliefs and social learning8
Subsidizing low- and middle-income adoption of electric vehicles: Quasi-experimental evidence from California8
Do senators and house members beat the stock market? Evidence from the STOCK Act8
The effects of physician vertical integration on referral patterns, patient welfare, and market dynamics8
Effects of restrictive abortion legislation on cohort mortality evidence from 19th century law variation8
Firm mobility and jurisdictions’ tax rate choices: Evidence from immobile firm entry8
The impact of abortion on crime and crime-related behavior7
Are deficits free?7
Editorial Board7
Managing “Last Moment Behavior”: Non-binding target dates to reduce the spikes in task completion at deadlines7
Editorial Board7
TRAP’d Teens: Impacts of abortion provider regulations on fertility & education7
Present bias in politics and self-committing treaties7
Environmental regulations and international trade: A quantitative economic analysis of world pollution emissions7
Incentives, globalization, and redistribution7
Who pays for and who benefits from minimum wage increases? Evidence from Israeli tax data on business owners and workers7
Using payroll taxes as a redistribution tool7
Taxing Uber7
Regulatory arbitrage in teacher hiring and retention: Evidence from Massachusetts Charter Schools7
Centralized School choice with unequal outside options7
Editorial Board7
Failure to launch: Measuring the impact of sales tax nexus standards on business activity7
Unintended workplace safety consequences of minimum wages7
Environmental taxes and productivity: Lessons from Canadian manufacturing7
Behavioral cross-influence of a shadow tax bracket: Evidence from bunching where income tax liabilities start7
The political consequences of resource scarcity: Targeted spending in a water-stressed democracy7
A quantitative evaluation of universal basic income7
A quantitative analysis of subsidy competition in the U.S.6
We’ve got you covered! The effect of public health insurance on rural entrepreneurship in China6
Nonlinear taxation and international mobility in general equilibrium6
Unemployment and tax design6
Tax evasion and tax avoidance6
Hysteresis from employer subsidies6
Editorial Board6
Building trust in the state with information: Evidence from urban Punjab6
The psychological gains from COVID-19 vaccination6
Pension incentives and labor supply: Evidence from the introduction of universal old-age assistance in the UK6
Home prices, fertility, and early-life health outcomes6
The long-term health and economic consequences of improved property rights6
‘Earned, not given’? The effect of lowering the full retirement age on retirement decisions6
Beliefs about inequality and the nature of support for redistribution6
Syringe exchange programs and harm reduction: New evidence in the wake of the opioid epidemic6
Diminishing Target-based GDP Manipulation: Evidence from China6
One hundred years of U.S. state taxation6
Read my lips? Taxes and elections6
Income shocks, political support and voting behaviour6
Coal use, air pollution, and student performance6
Does going cashless make you tax-rich? Evidence from India’s demonetization experiment6
Football, alcohol, and domestic abuse6
How did federal aid to states and localities affect testing and vaccine delivery?6
Majority choice of taxation and redistribution in a federation6
A rising tide lifts all homes? Housing consumption trends for low-income households since the 1980s6
Counting on my vote not counting: Expressive voting in committees6
Optional (non-)filing and effective taxation6
Provider turf wars and Medicare payment rules5
Financial market exposure increases generalized trust5
Where and why do politicians send pork? Evidence from central government transfers to French municipalities5
Do higher income taxes on top earners trickle down? A local labor markets approach5
The air quality and well-being effects of low emission zones5
The unintended consequences of merit-based teacher selection: Evidence from a large-scale reform in Colombia5
Reducing partisanship in judicial elections can improve judge quality: Evidence from U.S. state supreme courts5
Home or away? Profit shifting with territorial taxation5
An older college professor like me5
Parents’ effective time endowment and divorce: Evidence from extended school days5
Editorial Board5
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When the great equalizer shuts down: Schools, peers, and parents in pandemic times5
Do renewable energy investments create local jobs?5
Labor supply and automation innovation: Evidence from an allocation policy5
OK Boomer: Generational differences in teacher quality5
Effect of a transfer shock on subnational debt: Micro evidence from Mexico5
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The labor market impacts of America’s first paid maternity leave policy5
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The effects of middle school remediation on postsecondary success: Regression discontinuity evidence from Florida5
The employment effects of a pandemic wage subsidy5
The short- and long-run impacts of secondary school absences5
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