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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Special Issue of JUE Insight Papers: Introduction	188
JUE 2007–2023: Rising impact	120
Who bears the burden of real estate transfer taxes? Evidence from the German housing market	109
Landlords and access to opportunity	95
JUE Insight: Were urban cowboys enough to control COVID-19? Local shelter-in-place orders and coronavirus case growth	90
Public housing spillovers: Evidence from South Africa	78
Slow traffic, fast food: The effects of time lost on food store choice	73
JUE Insight: The impact of the school admission restriction policy on the housing market in Shanghai	73
“Downs's Law” under the lens of theory: Roads lower congestion and increase distance traveled	67
The impact of road rationing on housing demand and sorting	56
Not in my neighbour’s back yard? Laneway homes and neighbours’ property values	52
Introduction to special issue of Journal of Urban Economics: Race, Social Justice, and Cities	49
Equilibrium sorting and moral hazard in residential energy contracts	45
The effects of residential landlord–tenant laws: New evidence from Canadian reforms using census data	44
A new way of evaluating the optimality of a transportation improvement in a class of urban land use models	43
The economic impacts of the UK's eat out to help out scheme	39
JUE Insight: From referrals to suspensions: New evidence on racial disparities in exclusionary discipline	36
JUE Insight: COVID-19, race, and gender	36
The Spread and Consequences of COVID-19 for Cities: An Introduction	35
Applying the Degree of Urbanisation to the globe: A new harmonised definition reveals a different picture of global urbanisation	34
JUE Insight: The Geography of Travel Behavior in the Early Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic	31
Editorial Board	31
Editorial Board	30
Strategic behavior under tradeable driving permits and congestion tolls: A political economy model	30
Urban and spatial economics after 50 years	28

Editorial Board	28
The return to big-city experience: Evidence from refugees in Denmark	28
JUE Insight: COVID-19 and household preference for urban density in China	27
What explains neighborhood sorting by income and race?	27
Attenuation of agglomeration economies: Evidence from the universe of Chinese manufacturing firms	27
Editorial Board	26
Citywide parking policy and traffic: Evidence from Amsterdam	26
Collaboration and connectivity: Historical evidence from patent records	25
Bunching in real-estate markets: Regulated building heights in New York City	25
The Problem Has Existed over Endless Years: Racialized Difference in Commuting, 1980–2019	24
JUE insight: Demand for transportation and spatial pattern of economic activity during the pandemic	23
JUE Insight: Measuring movement and social contact with smartphone data: a real-time application to COVID-19	22
Taxi service with heterogeneous drivers and a competitive medallion market	22
Congestion and incentives in the age of driverless fleets	21
Editorial Board	21
Editorial Board	21
The geography of mortgage interest deductions	21
Spatial inequality and housing in China	20
Colonial Roads and Regional Inequality	20
Pushing towards shared mobility	20
Cities and the sea level	20
Minimum wage increases and eviction risk	19
Editorial Board	18
Commuting, gender and children	18
Black Lives Matter’s effect on police lethal use of force	17
Foundations of cities	17
Social housing and the spread of population: Evidence from twentieth century Ireland	17
JUE Insight: Hot temperatures, aggression, and death at the hands of the police: Evidence from the U.S	17
Volatility in Home Sales and Prices: Supply or Demand?	16
Definition matters. Metropolitan areas and agglomeration economies in a large-developing country	15
Editorial Board	14
Editorial Board	14
The effects of cash for clunkers on local air quality	13
Politically connected cities: Italy 1951–1991	13
Editorial Board	12
Editorial Board	12
Highways and segregation	12
Valuing externalities of outdoor advertising in an urban setting – the case of Warsaw	12
New Evidence on Redlining by Federal Housing Programs in the 1930s	12
JUE insight: Are city centers losing their appeal? Commercial real estate, urban spatial structure, and COVID-19	12
On the economic impacts of mortgage credit expansion policies: Evidence from help to buy	12
Access to ports and the welfare gains from domestic transportation infrastructure	11
Gender differences in job flexibility: Commutes and working hours after job loss	11
Insecure property rights and the housing market: Explaining India’s housing vacancy paradox	11
The economics of skyscrapers: A synthesis	10
JUE Insight: The Impacts of Opportunity Zones on Zone Residents	10
Editorial Board	10
JUE Insight: Is hospital quality predictive of pandemic deaths? Evidence from US counties	10
Delivery in the city: Differentiated products competition among New York restaurants	9
JUE Insight: White flight from Asian immigration: Evidence from California Public Schools	9

You can’t sit with us: How locals and tourists compete for amenities in Paris	9
JUE Insight: Immigrants, social transfers for education, and spatial interactions	9
Long-term effects of weather-induced migration on urban labor and housing markets	9
JUE Insight: The Effect of Relaxing Local Housing Market Regulations on Federal Rental Assistance Programs	9
The economic cost of locking down like China: Evidence from city-to-city truck flows	8
The city-wide effects of tolling downtown drivers: Evidence from London’s congestion charge	8
The structure and growth of ethnic neighborhoods	8
Making housing affordable? The local effects of relaxing land-use regulation	8
Do people accept different cultures?	8
Household mobility and the political economy and welfare effects of local tax limits	8
Black-Friendly businesses in cities during the Civil Rights Era	8
JUE Insight: The geographic spread of COVID-19 correlates with the structure of social networks as measured by Facebook	8
Monitoring Police with Body-Worn Cameras: Evidence from Chicago	8
Editorial Board	8
Housing market and school choice response to school quality information shocks✰	7
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
Front Matter 1 - Full Title Page (regular issues)/Special Issue Title page (special issues)	7
JUE insight: Migration, transportation infrastructure, and the spatial transmission of COVID-19 in China	7
Pandemics and cities: Evidence from the Black Death and the long-run	6
The long shadow of local decline: Birthplace economic adversity and long-term individual outcomes in the UK	6
Editorial Board	6
JUE insight: The impact of school spending on civic engagement: Evidence from school finance reforms	6
Cities and productivity: Evidence from 16 Latin American and Caribbean countries	6
Delineating urban areas using building density	6
City characteristics, land prices and volatility	6
Cities Without Skylines: Worldwide Building-Height Gaps and their Possible Determinants and Implications	6
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
Take the Q train: Value capture of public infrastructure projects	5
Identifying urban areas by combining human judgment and machine learning: An application to India	5
The amplifying effect of capitalization rates on housing supply	5
Unlocking neighborhood density	5
Income shocks and housing spillovers: Evidence from the World War I Veterans’ Bonus	5
Classifying locations and delineating space: An introduction	5
JUE insight: Expectations about future tax rates and firm entry	5
JUE Insight: Urban flight seeded the COVID-19 pandemic across the United States	5
Who lives where in the city? Amenities, commuting and income sorting	5
Decomposing the employment effects of investment subsidies	5
Editorial Board	5
Editorial Board	5
Detecting urban markets with satellite imagery: An application to India	5
The role of agents in fraudulent activities: Evidence from the housing market in Beijing	5
JUE Insight: Distributional Impacts of Retail Vaccine Availability	5
House prices, housing wealth and financial well-being	5
Cities and tasks	5
Editorial Board	4
Merchant networks in big cities	4
Life in the slow lane: Unintended consequences of public transit in Jakarta	4
Measuring urban economic density	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
JUE insight: The role of establishment size in the city-size earnings premium	4
Measuring the Value of Urban Consumption Amenities: A Time-Use Approach	4
The size and Census coverage of the U.S. homeless population	4
Measuring the size and growth of cities using nighttime light	4
Editorial Board	4
Should cities disband their police departments?	4
Did cities increase skills during industrialization? Evidence from rural-urban migration	4
The effect of low-skilled immigration on local productivity and amenities: Learning from the South Korean experience	4
The impact of return migration on employment and wages in Mexican cities	4