OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Urban 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The effect of natural disasters on economic activity in US counties: A century of data	121
Do short-term rental platforms affect housing markets? Evidence from Airbnb in Barcelona	103
Applying the Degree of Urbanisation to the globe: A new harmonised definition reveals a different picture of global urbanisation	101
Urban revival in America	84
JUE Insight: How much does COVID-19 increase with mobility? Evidence from New York and four other U.S. cities	76
JUE Insight: How do cities change when we work from home?	74
JUE insight: Are city centers losing their appeal? Commercial real estate, urban spatial structure, and COVID-19	69
Housing markets in a pandemic: Evidence from historical outbreaks	68
Social connectedness in urban areas	64
JUE Insight: The determinants of the differential exposure to COVID-19 in New York city and their evolution over time	57
JUE Insight: Understanding spatial variation in COVID-19 across the United States	56
Metropolitan areas in the world. Delineation and population trends	53
Short-term rentals and the housing market: Quasi-experimental evidence from Airbnb in Los Angeles	52
JUE Insight: The geographic spread of COVID-19 correlates with the structure of social networks as measured by Facebook	47
Accounting for central neighborhood change, 1980–2010	42
JUE Insight: College student travel contributed to local COVID-19 spread	41
Measuring urban economic density	37
Cities, lights, and skills in developing economies	35
The local residential land use regulatory environment across U.S. housing markets: Evidence from a new Wharton index	35
Building(s and) cities: Delineating urban areas with a machine learning algorithm	35
The capitalization of energy efficiency: Evidence from the housing market	29
Information value of property description: A Machine learning approach	28
Measuring the size and growth of cities using nighttime light	27
JUE Insight: Were urban cowboys enough to control COVID-19? Local shelter-in-place orders and coronavirus case growth	27
The congestion costs of Uber and Lyft	26

The impact of public employment: Evidence from Bonn	26
The Cost of Traffic: Evidence from the London Congestion Charge	26
Urban growth shadows	25
JUE Insight: Measuring movement and social contact with smartphone data: a real-time application to COVID-19	25
Do political connections help or hinder urban economic growth? Evidence from 1,400 industrial parks in China	24
Immigration enforcement awareness and community engagement with police: Evidence from domestic violence calls in Los Angeles	24
Geographical proximity to refugee reception centres and voting	23
Do urban wage premia reflect lower amenities? Evidence from Africa	22
Detecting urban markets with satellite imagery: An application to India	22
National transportation networks, market access, and regional economic growth	22
Take the Q train: Value capture of public infrastructure projects	21
Definition matters. Metropolitan areas and agglomeration economies in a large-developing country	20
Cities and the structure of social interactions: Evidence from mobile phone data	20
JUE Insight: The Geography of Travel Behavior in the Early Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic	20
Delineating urban areas using building density	19
JUE Insight: The effect of new market-rate housing construction on the low-income housing market	17
The economics of skyscrapers: A synthesis	17
Calling from the outside: The role of networks in residential mobility	16
Classifying locations and delineating space: An introduction	16
Who lives where in the city? Amenities, commuting and income sorting	16
Violence, development, and migration waves: Evidence from Central American child migrant apprehensions	15
Housing supply and affordability: Evidence from rents, housing consumption and household location	15
Local access to mental healthcare and crime	15
JUE Insight: From referrals to suspensions: New evidence on racial disparities in exclusionary discipline	15
Household mortgage refinancing decisions are neighbor influenced, especially along racial lines	15
Commuting and innovation: Are closer inventors more productive?	15
Echoes of rising tuition in students’ borrowing, educational attainment, and homeownership in post-recession America	15
New Evidence on Redlining by Federal Housing Programs in the 1930s	14
Effects of COVID‐19 shutdowns on domestic violence in US cities	13
Slum growth in Brazilian cities	13
Why is the rent so darn high? The role of growing demand to live in housing-supply-inelastic cities	13
The effect of LTV-based risk weights on house prices: Evidence from an Israeli macroprudential policy	13
Appointed public officials and local favoritism: Evidence from the German states	13
Citywide parking policy and traffic: Evidence from Amsterdam	12
Railways, divergence, and structural change in 19th century England and Wales	12
The COVID-19 pandemic and unemployment: Evidence from mobile phone data from China	12
JUE insight: Learning epidemiology by doing: The empirical implications of a Spatial-SIR model with behavioral responses	12
Identifying urban areas by combining human judgment and machine learning: An application to India	12
The local labour market effects of light rail transit	12
On the economic impacts of constraining second home investments	12
The impact of local residential land use restrictions on land values across and within single family housing markets	11
Enabled to work: The impact of government housing on slum dwellers in South Africa	11
JUE Insight: COVID-19 and household preference for urban density in China	11
Market tremors: Shale gas exploration, earthquakes, and their impact on house prices	10
Uber and traffic safety: Evidence from Brazilian cities	10
Police safety, killings by the police, and the militarization of US law enforcement	10
JUE Insight: The Impacts of Opportunity Zones on Zone Residents	10
Attenuation of agglomeration economies: Evidence from the universe of Chinese manufacturing firms	10
Local public finance dynamics and hurricane shocks	10
JUE Insight: City-wide effects of new housing supply: Evidence from moving chains	9

JUE Insight: Urban flight seeded the COVID-19 pandemic across the United States	9
The dynamics of industry agglomeration: Evidence from 44 years of coagglomeration patterns	9
The long-term impact of the resettlement of the Sudetenland on residential migration	9
The impact of upzoning on housing construction in Auckland	9
JUE insights: Does mobility explain why slums were hit harder by COVID-19 in Mumbai, India?	9
Age-based property tax exemptions	9
Land tenure and land-use in a developing city: A quantitative spatial model applied to Kampala, Uganda	9
Too slow for the urban march: Litigations and the real estate market in Mumbai, India	9
City size, pollution and emission policies	9
Rail accidents and property values in the era of unconventional energy production	8
Preferences of public transit commuters: Evidence from smart card data in Singapore	8
JUE insight: Migration, transportation infrastructure, and the spatial transmission of COVID-19 in China	8
The local economic impacts of regeneration projects: Evidence from UK's single regeneration budget	8
First time around: Local conditions and multi-dimensional integration of refugees	7
Water purification efforts and the black‐white infant mortality gap, 1906–1938	7
The internal spatial organization of firms: Evidence from Denmark	7
Life in the slow lane: Unintended consequences of public transit in Jakarta	7
Gender differences in job flexibility: Commutes and working hours after job loss	7
Landlords and access to opportunity	7
Revisiting the effects of housing transfer taxes	7
The price and allocation effects of targeted mandates: Evidence from lead hazards	6
Measuring human capital divergence in a growing economy	6
Migrating natives and foreign immigration: Is there a preference for ethnic residential homogeneity?	6
Austerity, welfare cuts and hate crime: Evidence from the UK's age of austerity	6
Trade and the spatial distribution of transport infrastructure	6
In the eye of the storm: Firms and capital destruction in India	6
The local impact of containerization	6
The amplifying effect of capitalization rates on housing supply	6
How bad is crime for business? Evidence from consumer behavior	6
The role of demand in land re-development	6
Insecure property rights and the housing market: Explaining India’s housing vacancy paradox	6
The return to big-city experience: Evidence from refugees in Denmark	6
JUE Insight: The (non-)effect of opportunity zones on housing prices	6
Taxes and Borrower Behavior: Evidence from the Mortgage Interest Deductibility Limit	5
House prices, housing wealth and financial well-being	5
Local economic impacts of legislative malapportionment	5
The effect of immigration enforcement on crime reporting: Evidence from Dallas	5
Strategic behavior under tradeable driving permits and congestion tolls: A political economy model	5
Cities Without Skylines: Worldwide Building-Height Gaps and their Possible Determinants and Implications	5
Foreclosure externalities and Vacant Property Registration Ordinances	5
JUE insight: Demand for transportation and spatial pattern of economic activity during the pandemic	5
The effect of tax increment financing districts on job creation in Chicago	5
JUE Insight: Difference-in-differences with geocoded microdata	5
Not in my neighbour’s back yard? Laneway homes and neighbours’ property values	5
What explains neighborhood sorting by income and race?	4
JUE Insight: Desegregated but still separated? The impact of school integration on student suspensions and special education classification	4
Child access prevention laws and juvenile firearm-related homicides	4
Decomposing the employment effects of investment subsidies	4
On quantitative spatial economic models	4
Tax decentralization notwithstanding regional disparities	4
Cities and tasks	4
The Effect of Racial Composition on Neighborhood Housing Prices: Evidence from Hurricane Katrina-Induced Migration	4
Aspiration adaptation in resource-constrained environments	4
Rent Control, Market Segmentation, and Misallocation: Causal Evidence from a Large-Scale Policy Intervention	4
Minimum wage increases and eviction risk	3
JUE Insight: Is hospital quality predictive of pandemic deaths? Evidence from US counties	3
Optimal minimum wage setting in a federal system	3
The Spread and Consequences of COVID-19 for Cities: An Introduction	3
JUE Insight: Powering work from home	3
Merchant networks in big cities	3
The Problem Has Existed over Endless Years: Racialized Difference in Commuting, 1980–2019	3
Can social media rhetoric incite hate incidents? Evidence from Trump's “Chinese Virus” tweets	3
Access to ports and the welfare gains from domestic transportation infrastructure	3
JUE Insight: The geography of pandemic containment	3
The impact of return migration on employment and wages in Mexican cities	3
Colonial Roads and Regional Inequality	3
Cities on pre-Columbian paths	3
The value of climate amenities: A comparison of hedonic and discrete choice approaches	3
JUE Insight: Distributional Impacts of Retail Vaccine Availability	3
Valuing externalities of outdoor advertising in an urban setting – the case of Warsaw	3