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Use when assessing whether a research question fits the Journal of Public Economics (JPubE) — the economic role of government (taxation, public expenditure, social insurance, redistribution, externalities, public goods, fiscal policy) — and whether the policy stakes clear the bar for an international readership. Scopes the question; it does not run the analysis.

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# Topic Selection (jpube-topic-selection)

## When to trigger

- You have data or a result but are unsure it is a *public-economics* paper
- The question is interesting empirically but the government-role angle is unclear
- You are choosing between a general-interest framing and a public-finance framing
- You need to decide whether JPubE or a generalist / specialty field journal fits

## The JPubE fit bar

JPubE was founded in 1972 by **Tony Atkinson** to be the home for rigorous analysis of the **economic role of government**, and under current Editors **Nathaniel Hendren** and **Wojciech Kopczuk** it still rewards exactly that: a question about how government policy affects behavior, welfare, or the distribution of resources, answered with **modern theory and quantitative methods** and a lesson that travels to an **international readership**. A strong JPubE topic sits squarely in one of the field's pillars:

- **Taxation** — labor-supply and taxable-income elasticities, optimal tax, tax avoidance/evasion, corporate and capital taxation, bunching at kinks/notches
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