Journal of Public Economics

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Public Economics is 8. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
News credibility and the quest for clicks160
Editorial Board110
Editorial Board109
Do mandated health insurance benefits for diabetes save lives?72
Testing above the limit: Drinking water contamination and test scores67
Welfare effects of unemployment benefits when informality is high59
Later-life mortality and the repeal of federal prohibition55
Earnings information and public preferences for university tuition: Evidence from representative experiments54
State Auto-IRA policies and firm behavior: Lessons from administrative tax data53
Editorial Board53
Women’s economic empowerment and intimate partner violence52
How do government transfer payments affect retail prices and welfare? Evidence from SNAP45
Optimal tax policy and endogenous growth through innovation42
De Jure versus De Facto transparency: Corruption in local public office in India39
Progressive consumption taxes37
R&D tax credits and innovation36
Spillovers in fields of study: Siblings, cousins, and neighbors36
Income tax credits for consumer services: A tool for tackling VAT evasion?33
Immigrant inventors and local income taxes: Evidence from Swiss municipalities31
With a little help from my friends. Political competition in the shadow of organized crime31
The effect of highly publicized police killings on policing: Evidence from large U.S. cities31
The impact of the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation on job search and vacancy creation30
Moral hazard in insurance: Theory and evidence from a credit reform in Ghana27
Affirmative action and its race-neutral alternatives27
Moral hazard in electoral teams: List rank and campaign effort26
Efficient policy interventions in an epidemic26
Tax enforcement and the intended and unintended consequences of information disclosure26
One step ahead of the law: The net effect of anticipation and implementation of Colombia’s illegal crops substitution program25
Can changes in disability insurance work incentives influence beneficiary employment? Evidence from the promoting opportunity demonstration25
Credit access and housing insecurity: Evidence from winter utility shutoff protections25
The effects of legal representation on tenant outcomes in housing court: Evidence from New York City’s Universal Access program25
Competence-loyalty tradeoff under dominant minority rule: The case of Manchu rule, 1650-191125
A social norm nudge to save more: A field experiment at a retail bank24
Private response to exclusionary welfare policy: Evidence from Italian municipalities24
Do mandatory disclosures squeeze the lemons? The case of housing markets in India24
Neighborhoods, perceived Inequality, and preferences for Redistribution: Evidence from Barcelona23
Editorial Board23
Industrial automation and local public goods23
Preempting polarization: An experiment on opinion formation23
Myths of official measurement: Limits to test-based education reforms with weak governance22
Income and saving responses to tax incentives for private retirement savings22
Editorial Board22
Representative compensation and disability claimant outcomes22
Tradable immigration quotas revisited21
Who truly bears (bank) taxes? Evidence from only shifting statutory incidence21
Political accountability for populist policies: Lessons from the world’s largest democracy21
Government spending multipliers in (un)certain times20
Place-based consequences of person-based transfers: Evidence from recessions20
Pass-through, welfare, and incidence under imperfect competition20
Political leaders and macroeconomic expectations: Evidence from a global survey experiment20
Editorial Board20
Statutory incidence and sales tax compliance: Evidence from Wayfair19
Easing renegotiation rules in public procurement: Evidence from a policy reform19
Do prize-linked incentives promote positive financial behavior? Evidence from a debt reduction intervention19
The division of parental leave: Empirical evidence and policy design19
Financial repercussions of SNAP work requirements19
Personal norms — and not only social norms — shape economic behavior19
Does candidates’ media exposure affect vote shares? Evidence from Pope breaking news18
Editorial Board18
Opportunity and inequality across generations18
The importance of schools in driving children’s applications for disability benefits17
Academic mobility in U.S. public schools: Evidence from nearly 3 million students17
Editorial Board17
The effect of war on redistribution preferences17
Landmines: The local effects of demining17
Populism and ideological convergence: Evidence from a multiparty system17
Targeted regulation for reducing high-ozone events17
Multilateral regime change17
Wealth inequality and the political economy of financial and labour regulations16
The effects of labor market opportunities on education: The case of a female hiring ceiling in Iran16
Surviving a mass shooting16
The dynamics of cohort effect in politics16
Using schooling decisions to estimate the elasticity of marginal utility of consumption16
Firm responses to book income alternative minimum taxes16
The Pandemic’s effect on demand for public schools, homeschooling, and private schools16
Does single-sex schooling help or hurt labor market outcomes? Evidence from a natural experiment in South Korea16
Noise pollution and violent crime☆16
Does weak enforcement deter tax progressivity?16
Small business tax compliance under third-party reporting15
Moving to density: Half a century of housing costs and wage premia from Queens to King Salmon15
Intergenerational effect of an education stipend program on child development: Evidence from Bangladesh15
Recovering voice through out-of-district donations15
Political manipulation of urban land markets: Evidence from China15
Cleaner water and higher housing prices: Evidence from China☆15
Inside the West Wing: Lobbying as a contest15
Subjective well-being and social desirability15
Editorial Board14
Teacher-led innovations to improve education outcomes: Experimental evidence from Brazil14
Misperceived effectiveness and the demand for psychotherapy14
Optimal taxation of risky entrepreneurial capital14
The scale and nature of neighborhood effects on children14
Reducing child marriages through CCTs: Evidence from a large-scale policy intervention in Indonesia13
The persistent impact of electoral incentives on the quality of infrastructure13
Contagion at work: Occupations, industries and human contact13
Fallen women: Recessions and the supply of sex work13
Voters and the trade-off between policy stability and responsiveness13
Poverty spillovers in human capital Formation: Evidence from randomized class assignments in China13
National parks and economic development12
Offshore tax evasion and wealth inequality: Evidence from a tax amnesty in the Netherlands12
The environmental costs of political interference: Evidence from power plants in the Amazon12
Spend as you were told: Evidence from labeled COVID-19 stimulus payments in South Korea12
The impacts of Covid-19 absences on workers12
International college students’ impact on the US skilled labor supply12
Migrant exposure and anti-migrant sentiment: The case of the Venezuelan exodus12
Can payroll tax cuts help firms during recessions?12
Digitalization to improve tax compliance: Evidence from VAT e-Invoicing in Peru12
Correlation in state and local tax changes11
Risky moms, risky kids? fertility and crime after the fall of the wall11
Combining rules and discretion in economic development policy: Evidence on the impacts of the California Competes Tax Credit11
The effect of emergency financial assistance on healthcare use11
The political economy of coastal development11
Escaping the exchange of information: Tax evasion via citizenship-by-investment11
Effects of speed-schools in Niger11
The political allocation of green pork and its implications for federal climate policy11
Learning from praise: Evidence from a field experiment with teachers11
Editorial Board11
Ethnic geography: Measurement and evidence11
Diverting domestic turmoil11
Choice and consequence: Assessing mismatch at Chicago exam schools11
Long-term effects of grants and loans for vocational education11
Editorial Board11
Primary care providers’ influence on opioid use and its adverse consequences11
Occupational licensing in US public schools: Nationwide implementation of Teacher Performance Assessment11
New evidence on the efficacy of state-based retirement programs: The case of OregonSaves11
The market-level effects of charter schools on student outcomes: A national analysis of school districts11
The salary taboo privacy norms and the diffusion of information10
Toward an understanding of tax amnesty take-up: Evidence from a natural field experiment10
Sharing the pie: An analysis of undernutrition and individual consumption in Bangladesh10
Politics from the Bench? Ideology and Strategic Voting in the U.S. Supreme Court10
How do business owners respond to a tax cut? Examining the 199A deduction for pass-through firms10
Do elections affect immigration? Evidence from French municipalities10
Uncovering illegal and underground economies: The case of mafia extortion racketeering10
The effect of required minimum distributions on intergenerational transfers10
When the minimum wage really bites hard: The negative spillover effect on high-skilled workers10
Frames, incentives, and education: Effectiveness of interventions to delay public pension claiming10
Editorial Board10
Marketing authorization and strategic patenting: Evidence from pharmaceuticals10
Worker and spousal responses to automatic enrollment10
Gender, beliefs, and coordination with externalities10
Tax losses and ex-ante offshore transfer of intellectual property10
Race-blind admissions, school segregation, and student outcomes10
The decline of manufacturing employment and the rise of the far-right in Austria10
The impact of withdrawal penalties on retirement savings10
The impact of diversity on perceptions of income distribution and preferences for redistribution10
The children of HOPE VI demolitions: National evidence on labor market outcomes10
Medical bill shock and imperfect moral hazard9
Does information affect homophily?9
Committees as active audiences: Reputation concerns and information acquisition9
The “Privatization” of municipal debt9
Self-signaling in voting9
Women leaders improve environmental outcomes: Evidence from crop fires in India9
Editorial Board9
Informative fundraising: The signaling value of seed money and matching gifts9
Heterogeneity in the pass-through from oil to gasoline prices: A new instrument for estimating the price elasticity of gasoline demand9
Do temporary workers experience additional employment and earnings risk after workplace injuries?9
Bureaucrats under Populism9
Editorial Board9
Occupy government: Democracy and the dynamics of personnel decisions and public finances9
Organized crime, violence and support for the state9
Rounded Up: Using round numbers to identify tax evasion8
Judicial subversion: The effects of political power on court outcomes8
Editorial Board8
Employer-sponsored health insurance premiums and income in U.S. tax data8
Partisan political beliefs and social learning8
Firm mobility and jurisdictions’ tax rate choices: Evidence from immobile firm entry8
Labor market regulations and firm adjustments in skill demand8
Do people demand fact-checked news? Evidence from U.S. Democrats8
Infrastructure maintenance and rural economic activity: Evidence from India8
Immigrant legalization and the redistribution of state funds: Evidence from the 1986 IRCA8
Dangerous prescribing and healthcare fragmentation: Evidence from opioids8
Identity breeds inequality: Evidence from a laboratory experiment on redistribution8
The place-based effects of police stations on crime: Evidence from station closures8
Sequential referenda with sophisticated voters8
The economic consequences of being widowed by war: A life-cycle perspective8
Gulags, crime, and elite violence: Origins and consequences of the Russian mafia8
Measuring take-up of the California EITC with state administrative data8
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
Effects of restrictive abortion legislation on cohort mortality evidence from 19th century law variation8
Technology and the state: Building capacity to tax via text8
The effects of physician vertical integration on referral patterns, patient welfare, and market dynamics8
Environmental taxes and productivity: Lessons from Canadian manufacturing8
The effects of public campaign funding: Evidence from Seattle’s Democracy Voucher program8
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