Jacobs, B. (2011). Comment: Crime in Europe and the United States: Dissecting the {\textquoteleft}Reversal of Misfortunes' Economic Policy, 26(67):347--385.

Jacobs, B. (2010). Comment: Corporate Tax Harmonization in the EU Economic Policy, 25(63):578--580.

Jacobs, B. (2010). Comment: The Governance and Performance of Universities: Evidence from Europe and the US Economic Policy, 25(61):47--49.

Jacobs, B. and van der Ploeg, F. (2006). Guide to reform of higher education: A European perspective Economic Policy, 21(47):537--592.

Bovenberg, A. and Jacobs, B. (2005). Redistribution and education subsidies are Siamese twins Journal of Public Economics, 89(11-12):2005--2035.

Jacobs, B. (2018). The marginal cost of public funds is one at the optimal tax system International Tax and Public Finance, 25(4):883--912.

Jacobs, B., Jongen, E. and Zoutman, F. (2017). Revealed social preferences of Dutch political parties Journal of Public Economics, 156:81--100.

Jacobs, B. and Yang, H. (2016). Second-best income taxation and education policy with endogenous human capital and borrowing constraints International Tax and Public Finance, 23(2):234--268.

Zoutman, F. and Jacobs, B. (2016). Optimal redistribution and monitoring of labor supply Journal of Public Economics, 135:15--31.

Jacobs, B. and de Mooij, R.A. (2015). Pigou meets Mirrlees: On the irrelevance of tax distortions for the second-best Pigouvian tax Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 71:90--108.

Jacobs, B. and Boadway, R. (2014). Optimal linear commodity taxation under optimal non-linear income taxation Journal of Public Economics, 117(1):201--210.

Jacobs, B. (2013). From Optimal Tax Theory to Applied Tax Policy Finanzarchiv, 69(3):338--389.

Jacobs, B. (2013). Optimal redistributive tax and education policies in general equilibrium International Tax and Public Finance, 20(2):312--337.

Jacobs, B. and Schindler, D. (2012). On the desirability of taxing capital income in optimal social insurance Journal of Public Economics, 96(9-10):853--868.

Jacobs, B., Schindler, D. and Yang, H. (2012). Optimal Taxation of Risky Human Capital The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 114(3):908--931.

Jacobs, B. and Bovenberg, A. (2011). Optimal taxation of human capital and the earnings function Journal of Public Economic Theory, 13(6):957--971.

Jacobs, B. (2011). Comment: Crime in Europe and the United States: Dissecting the {\textquoteleft}Reversal of Misfortunes' Economic Policy, 26(67):347--385.

Jacobs, B. and Bovenberg, A. (2010). Human capital and optimal positive taxation of capital income International Tax and Public Finance, 17(5):451--478.

Jacobs, B., de Mooij, R.A. and Folmer, K. (2010). Flat income taxation, redistribution and labour market performance Applied Economics, 42(25):3209--3220.

Jacobs, B. (2010). Comment: Corporate Tax Harmonization in the EU Economic Policy, 25(63):578--580.

Jacobs, B. (2010). Comment: The Governance and Performance of Universities: Evidence from Europe and the US Economic Policy, 25(61):47--49.

Noailly, J., Jacobs, B. and Webbink, D. (2010). Should the Government Intervene in the Market for Scientist and Engineers? Applied Economics Letters, 18(4):371--375.

Jacobs, B., Hartog, J. and Vijverberg, W. (2009). Self-selection bias in estimated wage premiums for earnings risk Empirical Economics, 37(2):271--286.

Jacobs, B. (2009). Is Prescott right? Welfare state policies and the incentives to work, learn, and retire International Tax and Public Finance, 16(2):253--280.

Bovenberg, A., Jacobs, B. and De Mooij, R.A. (2008). Introduction: Reinventing the welfare state International Tax and Public Finance, 15(1):1--4.

Jacobs, B. and Wijnbergen, S.J.G. (2007). Capital Market Failure, Adverse Selection and Optimal Financing of Higher Education Finanzarchiv, 63(1):1--32.

Jacobs, B. (2007). Real options and human capital investment Labour Economics, 14(6):913--925.

van Ewijk, C., Jacobs, B. and de Mooij, R. (2007). Welfare effects of fiscal subsidies on home ownership in the Netherlands De Economist, 155(3):323--336.

Jacobs, B. and van der Ploeg, F. (2006). Guide to reform of higher education: A European perspective Economic Policy, 21(47):537--592.

Bovenberg, A. and Jacobs, B. (2005). Redistribution and education subsidies are Siamese twins Journal of Public Economics, 89(11-12):2005--2035.

Jacobs, B. and Theeuwes, J.J.M. (2005). Innovation in the Netherlands: The Market Falters and the Government Fails De Economist, 153(1):107--124.

Jacobs, B. (2005). Optimal income taxation with endogenous human capital Journal of Public Economic Theory, 7(2):295--315.

Jacobs, B. (2004). The lost race between schooling and technology De Economist, 152(1):47--78.

Jacobs, B. and Nahuis, R. (2002). A general purpose technology explains the Solow paradox and wage inequality Economics Letters, 74(2):243--250.

Jacobs, B., Nahuis, R and Tang, P.J.G. (2002). Sectoral Productivity Growth and R&D Spillovers in the Netherlands De Economist, 150:181--210.