Journal of Urban Economics

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Urban Economics is 2. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Monitoring Police with Body-Worn Cameras: Evidence from Chicago155
Slow traffic, fast food: The effects of time lost on food store choice109
The effect of low-skilled immigration on local productivity and amenities: Learning from the South Korean experience99
Editorial Board89
JUE 2007–2023: Rising impact86
Who bears the burden of real estate transfer taxes? Evidence from the German housing market78
Building tall, falling short: An empirical assessment of Chinese skyscrapers75
Taxes and telework: The impacts of state income taxes in a work-from-home economy73
Foundations of cities64
“Downs's Law” under the lens of theory: Roads lower congestion and increase distance traveled61
Public housing spillovers: Evidence from South Africa61
Social housing and the spread of population: Evidence from twentieth century Ireland59
JUE Insight: Powering work from home49
Editorial Board45
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The impact of minimum income on homelessness: Evidence from France40
Editorial Board37
Special Issue of JUE Insight Papers: Introduction37
Editorial Board36
The structure and growth of ethnic neighborhoods32
JUE Insight: The (non-)effect of opportunity zones on housing prices31
Housing supply and affordability: Evidence from rents, housing consumption and household location30
Neighboring capital imports and non-importer productivity: Evidence from geocoded manufacturing firms in China29
Volatility in Home Sales and Prices: Supply or Demand?29
JUE Insight: Hot temperatures, aggression, and death at the hands of the police: Evidence from the U.S28
JUE Insight: The impact of the school admission restriction policy on the housing market in Shanghai26
A beam of light: Media, tourism and economic development25
Definition matters. Metropolitan areas and agglomeration economies in a large-developing country25
JUE insight: Migration, transportation infrastructure, and the spatial transmission of COVID-19 in China24
Foreclosure externalities and Vacant Property Registration Ordinances23
The impact of return migration on employment and wages in Mexican cities23
Variation in racial disparities in police use of force23
Not in my neighbour’s back yard? Laneway homes and neighbours’ property values22
Homeowner politics and housing supply22
Local economic impacts of legislative malapportionment22
The spatial impacts of a massive rail disinvestment program: The Beeching Axe21
The internal spatial organization of firms: Evidence from Denmark20
Landlords and access to opportunity19
Spatial and historical drivers of fake news diffusion: Evidence from anti-Muslim discrimination in India19
Can real estate booms hurt firms? Evidence on investment substitution19
Household mobility and the political economy and welfare effects of local tax limits19
Measuring the size and growth of cities using nighttime light18
Short-term rentals and the housing market: Quasi-experimental evidence from Airbnb in Los Angeles18
Measuring urban economic density17
JUE Insight: Desegregated but still separated? The impact of school integration on student suspensions and special education classification17
Trade and the spatial distribution of transport infrastructure17
Black Lives Matter’s effect on police lethal use of force17
The impact of road rationing on housing demand and sorting17
Cities Without Skylines: Worldwide Building-Height Gaps and their Possible Determinants and Implications16
JUE Insight: Were urban cowboys enough to control COVID-19? Local shelter-in-place orders and coronavirus case growth16
The effects of cash for clunkers on local air quality15
The effects of residential landlord–tenant laws: New evidence from Canadian reforms using census data15
City characteristics, land prices and volatility15
JUE Insight: The geography of pandemic containment14
Austerity, welfare cuts and hate crime: Evidence from the UK's age of austerity14
Editorial Board13
JUE Insight: Zoning and property taxation revisited—Was Hamilton right?13
On quantitative spatial economic models13
Highways and segregation13
Editorial Board13
Front Matter 1 - Full Title Page (regular issues)/Special Issue Title page (special issues)12
Editorial Board12
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Housing market and school choice response to school quality information shocks✰11
Local causes and aggregate implications of land use regulation11
Editorial Board11
JUE Insight: COVID-19, race, and gender10
Uber and traffic safety: Evidence from Brazilian cities10
In remembrance Edwin S. Mills (1928-2021)10
Introduction to special issue of Journal of Urban Economics: Race, Social Justice, and Cities10
JUE Insight: Condominium development does not lead to gentrification9
Does the US have an infrastructure cost problem? Evidence from the interstate highway system9
The marginal cost of mortality risk reduction: Evidence from housing markets9
Toxic Metal Injustice? Socioeconomic status at birth and exposure to airborne pollution9
Academic achievement and wellbeing of dual language learners: Evidence from a busing program9
A new way of evaluating the optimality of a transportation improvement in a class of urban land use models9
Pandemics and cities: Evidence from the Black Death and the long-run9
Cities and productivity: Evidence from 16 Latin American and Caribbean countries8
The long shadow of local decline: Birthplace economic adversity and long-term individual outcomes in the UK8
New Evidence on Redlining by Federal Housing Programs in the 1930s8
Appointed public officials and local favoritism: Evidence from the German states8
JUE Insight: Difference-in-differences with geocoded microdata8
Equilibrium sorting and moral hazard in residential energy contracts7
Politically connected cities: Italy 1951–19917
The economic impacts of the UK's eat out to help out scheme7
JUE insight: The impact of school spending on civic engagement: Evidence from school finance reforms7
The impact of immigration status on crime reporting: Evidence from DACA7
The Spread and Consequences of COVID-19 for Cities: An Introduction7
Delineating urban areas using building density7
Analyzing political preferences of second-generation immigrants across the rural–urban divide7
JUE Insight: From referrals to suspensions: New evidence on racial disparities in exclusionary discipline6
Valuing externalities of outdoor advertising in an urban setting – the case of Warsaw6
The dynamics of industry agglomeration: Evidence from 44 years of coagglomeration patterns6
The Effect of Racial Composition on Neighborhood Housing Prices: Evidence from Hurricane Katrina-Induced Migration6
Crime risk and housing values: Evidence from the gun offender registry6
Local favoritism in China's public procurement: Information frictions or incentive distortion?6
Applying the Degree of Urbanisation to the globe: A new harmonised definition reveals a different picture of global urbanisation6
How bad is crime for business? Evidence from consumer behavior6
Metropolitan areas in the world. Delineation and population trends6
Bottleneck congestion and urban spatial structure with heterogeneous households: Equilibrium, capacity expansion and congestion tolling6
JUE insight: Are city centers losing their appeal? Commercial real estate, urban spatial structure, and COVID-196
Local public finance dynamics and hurricane shocks6
Road maintenance and local economic development: Evidence from Indonesia’s highways6
JUE Insight: The Geography of Travel Behavior in the Early Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic5
Editorial Board5
JUE Insight: Understanding spatial variation in COVID-19 across the United States5
Strategic behavior under tradeable driving permits and congestion tolls: A political economy model5
Mortgage innovation and house price booms5
The return to big-city experience: Evidence from refugees in Denmark5
JUE insight: Differences in rent growth by income from 1985 to 2021 and implications for inflation5
Editorial Board5
First time around: Local conditions and multi-dimensional integration of refugees4
JUE insight: Infrastructure and Finance: Evidence from India’s GQ highway network4
Editorial Board4
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Locating Public Facilities: Theory and Micro Evidence from Paris4
Does urban development influence crime? Evidence from Philadelphia’s new zoning regulations4
Journal of Urban Economics, 1991–20074
Government Contracting, Labor Intensity, and the Local Effects of Fiscal Consolidation: Evidence from the Budget Control Act of 20114
JUE Insight: What is the impact of opportunity zones on job postings?4
Minorities and property values: Evidence from residential buildings in Israel4
Matching, centrality and the urban network4
Editorial Board4
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Why is the rent so darn high? The role of growing demand to live in housing-supply-inelastic cities3
The impact of local residential land use restrictions on land values across and within single family housing markets3
Editorial Board3
Agglomeration Economies and the Built Environment: Evidence from Specialized Buildings and Anchor Tenants3
JUE Insight: Distributional Impacts of Retail Vaccine Availability3
The amplifying effect of capitalization rates on housing supply3
The effect of tax increment financing districts on job creation in Chicago3
Editorial Board3
Income shocks and housing spillovers: Evidence from the World War I Veterans’ Bonus3
Gender differences in job flexibility: Commutes and working hours after job loss3
Insecure property rights and the housing market: Explaining India’s housing vacancy paradox3
Editorial Board3
JUE insights: Does mobility explain why slums were hit harder by COVID-19 in Mumbai, India?3
Access to ports and the welfare gains from domestic transportation infrastructure3
House prices, housing wealth and financial well-being2
An Alternative Approach to Estimating Foreclosure and Short Sale Discounts2
Long-distance water infrastructure, rural development and urban growth: Evidence from China2
Nobody’s gonna slow me down? The effects of a transportation cost shock on firm performance and behavior2
JUE Insight: Urban flight seeded the COVID-19 pandemic across the United States2
Urban growth shadows2
Optimal minimum wage setting in a federal system2
Connective financing: Chinese infrastructure projects and the diffusion of economic activity in developing countries2
Reducing the burden of mental illness on the criminal justice system: Evidence from light-touch outreach2
Reducing racial disparities in crime victimization: Evidence from employment discrimination litigation2
On the economic impacts of mortgage credit expansion policies: Evidence from help to buy2
The local residential land use regulatory environment across U.S. housing markets: Evidence from a new Wharton index2
Identifying urban areas by combining human judgment and machine learning: An application to India2
Roads, internal migration and the spatial sorting of U.S. high-skill workers2
JUE Insight: The Impacts of Opportunity Zones on Zone Residents2
JUE Insight: The determinants of the differential exposure to COVID-19 in New York city and their evolution over time2
Who lives where in the city? Amenities, commuting and income sorting2
Too slow for the urban march: Litigations and the real estate market in Mumbai, India2
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