OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Urban Economics is 4. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
JUE 2007–2023: Rising impact	136
Who bears the burden of real estate transfer taxes? Evidence from the German housing market	121
Rushing to opportunity: City growth and entrepreneurship	90
Special Issue of JUE Insight Papers: Introduction	79
Landlords and access to opportunity	78
Not in my neighbour’s back yard? Laneway homes and neighbours’ property values	69
JUE Insight: Were urban cowboys enough to control COVID-19? Local shelter-in-place orders and coronavirus case growth	60
JUE Insight: The impact of the school admission restriction policy on the housing market in Shanghai	52
Slow traffic, fast food: The effects of time lost on food store choice	47
“Downs's Law” under the lens of theory: Roads lower congestion and increase distance traveled	46
Public housing spillovers: Evidence from South Africa	45
The impact of road rationing on housing demand and sorting	42
The economic impacts of the UK's eat out to help out scheme	41
The effects of residential landlord–tenant laws: New evidence from Canadian reforms using census data	41
JUE Insight: The Geography of Travel Behavior in the Early Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic	40
A new way of evaluating the optimality of a transportation improvement in a class of urban land use models	39
The Spread and Consequences of COVID-19 for Cities: An Introduction	38
Introduction to special issue of Journal of Urban Economics: Race, Social Justice, and Cities	34
JUE Insight: COVID-19, race, and gender	31
Equilibrium sorting and moral hazard in residential energy contracts	31
The effects of residential zoning in U.S. housing markets	30
JUE Insight: From referrals to suspensions: New evidence on racial disparities in exclusionary discipline	30
Editorial Board	29
The return to big-city experience: Evidence from refugees in Denmark	28
Urban and spatial economics after 50 years	28

Editorial Board	28
Strategic behavior under tradeable driving permits and congestion tolls: A political economy model	28
Attenuation of agglomeration economies: Evidence from the universe of Chinese manufacturing firms	27
JUE Insight: COVID-19 and household preference for urban density in China	27
Editorial Board	26
Bunching in real-estate markets: Regulated building heights in New York City	26
What explains neighborhood sorting by income and race?	26
Taxi service with heterogeneous drivers and a competitive medallion market	26
Citywide parking policy and traffic: Evidence from Amsterdam	25
Collaboration and connectivity: Historical evidence from patent records	24
JUE insight: Demand for transportation and spatial pattern of economic activity during the pandemic	23
Tourism growth, education decline: Evidence from China’s 5A attraction expansion	22
The Problem Has Existed over Endless Years: Racialized Difference in Commuting, 1980–2019	21
JUE Insight: Measuring movement and social contact with smartphone data: a real-time application to COVID-19	21
Editorial Board	21
Editorial Board	20
Spatial inequality and housing in China	19
Commuting, gender and children	19
Pushing towards shared mobility	17
Minimum wage increases and eviction risk	17
Cities and the sea level	17
Colonial Roads and Regional Inequality	16
The geography of mortgage interest deductions	14
JUE insight: Do ride-sharing services cause urban air pollution?	14
Impact of fertility relaxation on the housing market outcomes	14
Congestion and incentives in the age of driverless fleets	14
JUE Insight: Hot temperatures, aggression, and death at the hands of the police: Evidence from the U.S	14
Editorial Board	13
Foundations of cities	12
Black Lives Matter’s effect on police lethal use of force	12
Politically connected cities: Italy 1951–1991	12
Social housing and the spread of population: Evidence from twentieth century Ireland	12
Editorial Board	12
Volatility in Home Sales and Prices: Supply or Demand?	12
The effects of cash for clunkers on local air quality	12
JUE Insight: Is hospital quality predictive of pandemic deaths? Evidence from US counties	11
Editorial Board	11
Highways and segregation	11
On the economic impacts of mortgage credit expansion policies: Evidence from help to buy	11
JUE Insight: The Effect of Relaxing Local Housing Market Regulations on Federal Rental Assistance Programs	11
The economics of skyscrapers: A synthesis	11
New Evidence on Redlining by Federal Housing Programs in the 1930s	11
Editorial Board	11
JUE Insight: The Impacts of Opportunity Zones on Zone Residents	11
Editorial Board	11
Gender differences in job flexibility: Commutes and working hours after job loss	11
Valuing externalities of outdoor advertising in an urban setting – the case of Warsaw	11
JUE insight: Are city centers losing their appeal? Commercial real estate, urban spatial structure, and COVID-19	11
Insecure property rights and the housing market: Explaining India’s housing vacancy paradox	11
JUE Insight: White flight from Asian immigration: Evidence from California Public Schools	10

Long-term effects of weather-induced migration on urban labor and housing markets	10
JUE Insight: Immigrants, social transfers for education, and spatial interactions	9
Making housing affordable? The local effects of relaxing land-use regulation	9
Delivery in the city: Differentiated products competition among New York restaurants	9
You can’t sit with us: How locals and tourists compete for amenities in Paris	9
The economic cost of locking down like China: Evidence from city-to-city truck flows	9
Monitoring Police with Body-Worn Cameras: Evidence from Chicago	8
Black-Friendly businesses in cities during the Civil Rights Era	8
The city-wide effects of tolling downtown drivers: Evidence from London’s congestion charge	8
Do people accept different cultures?	8
The structure and growth of ethnic neighborhoods	8
JUE Insight: The geographic spread of COVID-19 correlates with the structure of social networks as measured by Facebook	8
JUE Insight: Powering work from home	7
JUE Insight: Desegregated but still separated? The impact of school integration on student suspensions and special education classification	7
Housing market and school choice response to school quality information shocks✰	7
City characteristics, land prices and volatility	7
JUE insight: Migration, transportation infrastructure, and the spatial transmission of COVID-19 in China	7
Editorial Board	7
Will you follow your job to the suburbs?	7
JUE insight: The impact of school spending on civic engagement: Evidence from school finance reforms	7
Cities Without Skylines: Worldwide Building-Height Gaps and their Possible Determinants and Implications	7
Household mobility and the political economy and welfare effects of local tax limits	7
The labor market outcomes of jurisdictional consolidation: Evidence from city–county mergers in China	7
Cities and productivity: Evidence from 16 Latin American and Caribbean countries	7
Does rent control increase tenant unemployment?	6
Corrigendum to “The role of agents in fraudulent activities: Evidence from the housing market in Beijing” [Journal of Urban Economics, Volume 142, July 2024, 103668]	6
House prices, housing wealth and financial well-being	6
The long shadow of local decline: Birthplace economic adversity and long-term individual outcomes in the UK	6
JUE Insight: Distributional Impacts of Retail Vaccine Availability	6
JUE Insight: Urban flight seeded the COVID-19 pandemic across the United States	6
Pandemics and cities: Evidence from the Black Death and the long-run	6
Income shocks and housing spillovers: Evidence from the World War I Veterans’ Bonus	6
Who lives where in the city? Amenities, commuting and income sorting	6
Did cities increase skills during industrialization? Evidence from rural-urban migration	5
The role of agents in fraudulent activities: Evidence from the housing market in Beijing	5
Editorial Board	5
Industrial Transfer Policy in China: Migration and development	5
Tastes, geography and culture	5
Merchant networks in big cities	5
Follow thy neighbor: The role of first exporters	5
Test scores, schools, and the geography of economic opportunity	5
JUE insight: Learning epidemiology by doing: The empirical implications of a Spatial-SIR model with behavioral responses	5
JUE insight: Moving cost magnitudes in moving cost models	5
Take the Q train: Value capture of public infrastructure projects	5
JUE insight: Expectations about future tax rates and firm entry	5
Decomposing the employment effects of investment subsidies	5
Unlocking neighborhood density	5
Editorial Board	5
The effect of subway policies on gasoline consumption: Subway expansion versus fare changes	5
Editorial Board	4
JUE Insight: Measuring local consumption with payment cards and cell phone pings	4
Measuring the Value of Urban Consumption Amenities: A Time-Use Approach	4
The effect of low-skilled immigration on local productivity and amenities: Learning from the South Korean experience	4
Editorial Board	4
JUE Insight: Making it home? Evidence on the long-run impact of an intensive support program for the chronically homeless on housing, employment and health	4
Should cities disband their police departments?	4
The size and Census coverage of the U.S. homeless population	4
JUE insight: The role of establishment size in the city-size earnings premium	4
The impact of return migration on employment and wages in Mexican cities	4
Editorial Board	4
Where the rubber meets the road: Pavement damage reduces traffic safety and speed	4
Life in the slow lane: Unintended consequences of public transit in Jakarta	4
Migration crisis in the local news: Evidence from the French–Italian border	4
In remembrance Edwin S. Mills (1928-2021)	4