Journal of Public Economics

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Public Economics is 9. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Testing above the limit: Drinking water contamination and test scores154
Curbing pretextual stops: Police efficiency and racial disparities113
Cronies in the courtroom: Political interference and judicial reforms94
Women’s economic empowerment and intimate partner violence72
Optimal tax policy and endogenous growth through innovation70
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Do mandated health insurance benefits for diabetes save lives?54
News credibility and the quest for clicks48
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State Auto-IRA policies and firm behavior: Lessons from administrative tax data42
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How do government transfer payments affect retail prices and welfare? Evidence from SNAP40
De Jure versus De Facto transparency: Corruption in local public office in India39
Welfare effects of unemployment benefits when informality is high38
“Not ready” as a productive wake-up call: Do second chances improve human capital investments?34
The pond dilemma with heterogeneous relative concerns34
Progressive consumption taxes34
Earnings information and public preferences for university tuition: Evidence from representative experiments33
Immigrant inventors and local income taxes: Evidence from Swiss municipalities32
Spillovers in fields of study: Siblings, cousins, and neighbors32
Later-life mortality and the repeal of federal prohibition30
R&D tax credits and innovation29
Income tax credits for consumer services: A tool for tackling VAT evasion?29
Air pollution as comparative disadvantage29
With a little help from my friends. Political competition in the shadow of organized crime28
Tax enforcement and the intended and unintended consequences of information disclosure28
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
Moral hazard in insurance: Theory and evidence from a credit reform in Ghana27
Can changes in disability insurance work incentives influence beneficiary employment? Evidence from the promoting opportunity demonstration27
Affirmative action and its race-neutral alternatives26
Credit access and housing insecurity: Evidence from winter utility shutoff protections25
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Estimating intergenerational returns to medical care: New evidence from at-risk newborns25
Private response to exclusionary welfare policy: Evidence from Italian municipalities24
Inference for welfare metrics24
Industrial automation and local public goods24
Who truly bears (bank) taxes? Evidence from only shifting statutory incidence23
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Representative compensation and disability claimant outcomes22
Political leaders and macroeconomic expectations: Evidence from a global survey experiment22
Statutory incidence and sales tax compliance: Evidence from Wayfair22
Neighborhoods, perceived Inequality, and preferences for Redistribution: Evidence from Barcelona22
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Preempting polarization: An experiment on opinion formation22
Place-based consequences of person-based transfers: Evidence from recessions21
Easing renegotiation rules in public procurement: Evidence from a policy reform21
Assessing the impact of grade retention: A cautionary tale of exclusion restriction violations20
Beyond lost earnings: Job displacement and the cost of commuting20
Political accountability for populist policies: Lessons from the world’s largest democracy20
Myths of official measurement: Limits to test-based education reforms with weak governance20
Do mandatory disclosures squeeze the lemons? The case of housing markets in India20
The division of parental leave: Empirical evidence and policy design19
Pass-through, welfare, and incidence under imperfect competition19
Financial repercussions of SNAP work requirements19
Personal norms — and not only social norms — shape economic behavior19
Firm responses to book income alternative minimum taxes18
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Recovering voice through out-of-district donations18
The dynamics of cohort effect in politics18
Targeted regulation for reducing high-ozone events18
Medical residency subsidies and physician shortages18
The effects of labor market opportunities on education: The case of a female hiring ceiling in Iran17
Intergenerational effect of an education stipend program on child development: Evidence from Bangladesh17
Subjective well-being and social desirability17
The Pandemic’s effect on demand for public schools, homeschooling, and private schools17
Does weak enforcement deter tax progressivity?17
The effect of war on redistribution preferences17
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Crowding out crowd support? Substitution between formal and informal insurance17
Moving to density: Half a century of housing costs and wage premia from Queens to King Salmon17
Does single-sex schooling help or hurt labor market outcomes? Evidence from a natural experiment in South Korea16
Weather and U.S. railways: risk, adaptation, and congestion16
Academic mobility in U.S. public schools: Evidence from nearly 3 million students16
Cleaner water and higher housing prices: Evidence from China☆16
Does candidates’ media exposure affect vote shares? Evidence from Pope breaking news15
The importance of schools in driving children’s applications for disability benefits15
Teacher-led innovations to improve education outcomes: Experimental evidence from Brazil15
Using schooling decisions to estimate the elasticity of marginal utility of consumption15
Noise pollution and violent crime☆15
Populism and ideological convergence: Evidence from a multiparty system15
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Political manipulation of urban land markets: Evidence from China15
Landmines: The local effects of demining15
Migrant exposure and anti-migrant sentiment: The case of the Venezuelan exodus15
The devil is in the details: Heterogeneous effects of the German minimum wage on working hours and minijobs15
Climate and migration in the United States14
Who benefits from pharmaceutical price controls? Evidence from India14
The persistent impact of electoral incentives on the quality of infrastructure14
Winters of discontent14
School equalization in the shadow of Jim Crow: Causes and consequences of resource disparity in Mississippi circa 194014
Digitalization to improve tax compliance: Evidence from VAT e-Invoicing in Peru14
Spend as you were told: Evidence from labeled COVID-19 stimulus payments in South Korea14
Voters and the trade-off between policy stability and responsiveness14
Economic activity and biodiversity in the United States14
Poverty spillovers in human capital Formation: Evidence from randomized class assignments in China14
Inside the West Wing: Lobbying as a contest14
Misperceived effectiveness and the demand for psychotherapy14
Optimal taxation of risky entrepreneurial capital14
International college students’ impact on the US skilled labor supply13
Reducing child marriages through CCTs: Evidence from a large-scale policy intervention in Indonesia13
Primary care providers’ influence on opioid use and its adverse consequences13
Effects of speed-schools in Niger13
National parks and economic development13
Fallen women: Recessions and the supply of sex work13
Offshore tax evasion and wealth inequality: Evidence from a tax amnesty in the Netherlands13
Choice and consequence: Assessing mismatch at Chicago exam schools13
The scale and nature of neighborhood effects on children13
The impacts of Covid-19 absences on workers13
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Prices vs quantities with risk aversion13
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The decline of manufacturing employment and the rise of the far-right in Austria12
Risky moms, risky kids? fertility and crime after the fall of the wall12
Occupational licensing in US public schools: Nationwide implementation of Teacher Performance Assessment12
The market-level effects of charter schools on student outcomes: A national analysis of school districts12
Race-blind admissions, school segregation, and student outcomes12
The impact of diversity on perceptions of income distribution and preferences for redistribution12
Wealth tax enforcement in Sweden: Filing requirements and pre-populated returns12
Auctions for risk-averse non-profits12
Frames, incentives, and education: Effectiveness of interventions to delay public pension claiming12
Combining rules and discretion in economic development policy: Evidence on the impacts of the California Competes Tax Credit12
The political economy of coastal development12
Correlation in state and local tax changes12
Politics from the Bench? Ideology and Strategic Voting in the U.S. Supreme Court11
Escaping the exchange of information: Tax evasion via citizenship-by-investment11
Worker and spousal responses to automatic enrollment11
New evidence on the efficacy of state-based retirement programs: The case of OregonSaves11
Does information affect homophily?11
Gender, beliefs, and coordination with externalities11
Tax losses and ex-ante offshore transfer of intellectual property11
The effect of required minimum distributions on intergenerational transfers11
Toward an understanding of tax amnesty take-up: Evidence from a natural field experiment11
The impact of withdrawal penalties on retirement savings11
Medical bill shock and imperfect moral hazard11
Social influence and carbon dioxide mitigation11
The environmental costs of political interference: Evidence from power plants in the Amazon11
The children of HOPE VI demolitions: National evidence on labor market outcomes11
Marketing authorization and strategic patenting: Evidence from pharmaceuticals11
Women leaders improve environmental outcomes: Evidence from crop fires in India11
Mortgages, Subways and Automobiles10
Do elections affect immigration? Evidence from French municipalities10
Do temporary workers experience additional employment and earnings risk after workplace injuries?10
The effects of physician vertical integration on referral patterns, patient welfare, and market dynamics10
Committees as active audiences: Reputation concerns and information acquisition10
Identity breeds inequality: Evidence from a laboratory experiment on redistribution10
Gulags, crime, and elite violence: Origins and consequences of the Russian mafia10
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What happens when women suddenly stop receiving cash transfers?10
The salary taboo privacy norms and the diffusion of information10
Uncovering illegal and underground economies: The case of mafia extortion racketeering10
Self-signaling in voting10
Organized crime, violence and support for the state10
The “Privatization” of municipal debt10
Protectionism, evasion and household welfare evidence from Nigeria’s import bans10
The disenrollment and labor market effects of SNAP work requirements on parents10
How do business owners respond to a tax cut? Examining the 199A deduction for pass-through firms10
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Infrastructure maintenance and rural economic activity: Evidence from India10
The effects of public campaign funding: Evidence from Seattle’s Democracy Voucher program10
Occupy government: Democracy and the dynamics of personnel decisions and public finances10
Heterogeneity in the pass-through from oil to gasoline prices: A new instrument for estimating the price elasticity of gasoline demand9
Effects of restrictive abortion legislation on cohort mortality evidence from 19th century law variation9
Partisan political beliefs and social learning9
Sequential referenda with sophisticated voters9
The impact of increased exposure of diversity on suburban students’ outcomes: An analysis of the METCO voluntary desegregation program9
The economic consequences of being widowed by war: A life-cycle perspective9
The impact of unexpected delays in periodic payments on consumption9
The value of relationships in healthcare9
Household production time and inequality in material living standards in the U.S., 1965–20189
Entrepreneurship and top marginal tax rates9
Judicial subversion: The effects of political power on court outcomes9
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Subsidizing low- and middle-income adoption of electric vehicles: Quasi-experimental evidence from California9
Labor market regulations and firm adjustments in skill demand9
Dangerous prescribing and healthcare fragmentation: Evidence from opioids9
Technology and the state: Building capacity to tax via text9
Immigrant legalization and the redistribution of state funds: Evidence from the 1986 IRCA9
Rounded Up: Using round numbers to identify tax evasion9
Employer-sponsored health insurance premiums and income in U.S. tax data9
Measuring take-up of the California EITC with state administrative data9
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