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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Special Issue of JUE Insight Papers: Introduction	194
JUE 2007–2023: Rising impact	127
Slow traffic, fast food: The effects of time lost on food store choice	112
JUE Insight: The impact of the school admission restriction policy on the housing market in Shanghai	99
“Downs's Law” under the lens of theory: Roads lower congestion and increase distance traveled	91
The impact of road rationing on housing demand and sorting	78
JUE Insight: Were urban cowboys enough to control COVID-19? Local shelter-in-place orders and coronavirus case growth	75
Public housing spillovers: Evidence from South Africa	73
Landlords and access to opportunity	67
Who bears the burden of real estate transfer taxes? Evidence from the German housing market	58
Rushing to opportunity: City growth and entrepreneurship	53
Not in my neighbour’s back yard? Laneway homes and neighbours’ property values	53
Equilibrium sorting and moral hazard in residential energy contracts	46
Introduction to special issue of Journal of Urban Economics: Race, Social Justice, and Cities	46
The effects of residential landlord–tenant laws: New evidence from Canadian reforms using census data	43
The Spread and Consequences of COVID-19 for Cities: An Introduction	41
The effects of residential zoning in U.S. housing markets	39
A new way of evaluating the optimality of a transportation improvement in a class of urban land use models	37
JUE Insight: The Geography of Travel Behavior in the Early Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic	36
JUE Insight: COVID-19, race, and gender	35
JUE Insight: From referrals to suspensions: New evidence on racial disparities in exclusionary discipline	34
Applying the Degree of Urbanisation to the globe: A new harmonised definition reveals a different picture of global urbanisation	33
Strategic behavior under tradeable driving permits and congestion tolls: A political economy model	31
Editorial Board	31
The economic impacts of the UK's eat out to help out scheme	31

The return to big-city experience: Evidence from refugees in Denmark	29
Editorial Board	29
Attenuation of agglomeration economies: Evidence from the universe of Chinese manufacturing firms	28
Editorial Board	28
JUE Insight: COVID-19 and household preference for urban density in China	28
Urban and spatial economics after 50 years	28
What explains neighborhood sorting by income and race?	27
Collaboration and connectivity: Historical evidence from patent records	26
Editorial Board	26
JUE insight: Demand for transportation and spatial pattern of economic activity during the pandemic	25
The Problem Has Existed over Endless Years: Racialized Difference in Commuting, 1980–2019	25
Bunching in real-estate markets: Regulated building heights in New York City	25
JUE Insight: Measuring movement and social contact with smartphone data: a real-time application to COVID-19	24
Citywide parking policy and traffic: Evidence from Amsterdam	24
Taxi service with heterogeneous drivers and a competitive medallion market	23
Congestion and incentives in the age of driverless fleets	22
Editorial Board	21
The geography of mortgage interest deductions	20
Editorial Board	20
Pushing towards shared mobility	20
Minimum wage increases and eviction risk	20
Spatial inequality and housing in China	20
Cities and the sea level	19
Colonial Roads and Regional Inequality	18
Editorial Board	18
Commuting, gender and children	18
JUE Insight: Hot temperatures, aggression, and death at the hands of the police: Evidence from the U.S	17
Foundations of cities	17
Social housing and the spread of population: Evidence from twentieth century Ireland	17
Volatility in Home Sales and Prices: Supply or Demand?	17
Definition matters. Metropolitan areas and agglomeration economies in a large-developing country	14
Black Lives Matter’s effect on police lethal use of force	14
Editorial Board	13
Editorial Board	13
Politically connected cities: Italy 1951–1991	13
JUE insight: Do ride-sharing services cause urban air pollution?	13
The effects of cash for clunkers on local air quality	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
Highways and segregation	12
Editorial Board	12
On the economic impacts of mortgage credit expansion policies: Evidence from help to buy	11
Access to ports and the welfare gains from domestic transportation infrastructure	11
Editorial Board	11
Insecure property rights and the housing market: Explaining India’s housing vacancy paradox	11
JUE Insight: Is hospital quality predictive of pandemic deaths? Evidence from US counties	10
JUE Insight: The Impacts of Opportunity Zones on Zone Residents	10
The economics of skyscrapers: A synthesis	10
Editorial Board	10

JUE Insight: The Effect of Relaxing Local Housing Market Regulations on Federal Rental Assistance Programs	10
Gender differences in job flexibility: Commutes and working hours after job loss	10
Long-term effects of weather-induced migration on urban labor and housing markets	9
JUE Insight: Immigrants, social transfers for education, and spatial interactions	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	8
Editorial Board	8
Do people accept different cultures?	8
The economic cost of locking down like China: Evidence from city-to-city truck flows	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
Delivery in the city: Differentiated products competition among New York restaurants	8
The structure and growth of ethnic neighborhoods	8
The city-wide effects of tolling downtown drivers: Evidence from London’s congestion charge	8
Making housing affordable? The local effects of relaxing land-use regulation	8
Household mobility and the political economy and welfare effects of local tax limits	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
Monitoring Police with Body-Worn Cameras: Evidence from Chicago	7
JUE insight: The impact of school spending on civic engagement: Evidence from school finance reforms	7
JUE Insight: Powering work from home	7
JUE insight: Migration, transportation infrastructure, and the spatial transmission of COVID-19 in China	7
The labor market outcomes of jurisdictional consolidation: Evidence from city–county mergers in China	7
Housing market and school choice response to school quality information shocks✰	7
City characteristics, land prices and volatility	6
Delineating urban areas using building density	6
Cities and productivity: Evidence from 16 Latin American and Caribbean countries	6
The long shadow of local decline: Birthplace economic adversity and long-term individual outcomes in the UK	6
Cities Without Skylines: Worldwide Building-Height Gaps and their Possible Determinants and Implications	6
Does rent control increase tenant unemployment?	6
Pandemics and cities: Evidence from the Black Death and the long-run	6
The role of agents in fraudulent activities: Evidence from the housing market in Beijing	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
Unlocking neighborhood density	5
The effect of subway policies on gasoline consumption: Subway expansion versus fare changes	5
Editorial Board	5
Editorial Board	5
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]	5
Identifying urban areas by combining human judgment and machine learning: An application to India	5
Test scores, schools, and the geography of economic opportunity	5
Cities and tasks	5
JUE insight: Learning epidemiology by doing: The empirical implications of a Spatial-SIR model with behavioral responses	5
JUE insight: Expectations about future tax rates and firm entry	5
Income shocks and housing spillovers: Evidence from the World War I Veterans’ Bonus	5
JUE Insight: Distributional Impacts of Retail Vaccine Availability	5
House prices, housing wealth and financial well-being	5
The amplifying effect of capitalization rates on housing supply	5
Editorial Board	5
Take the Q train: Value capture of public infrastructure projects	5
Classifying locations and delineating space: An introduction	4
Life in the slow lane: Unintended consequences of public transit in Jakarta	4
The effect of low-skilled immigration on local productivity and amenities: Learning from the South Korean experience	4
Measuring the Value of Urban Consumption Amenities: A Time-Use Approach	4
Where the rubber meets the road: Pavement damage reduces traffic safety and speed	4
Should cities disband their police departments?	4
Editorial Board	4
JUE insight: The role of establishment size in the city-size earnings premium	4
Did cities increase skills during industrialization? Evidence from rural-urban migration	4
The size and Census coverage of the U.S. homeless population	4
Detecting urban markets with satellite imagery: An application to India	4
Editorial Board	4
Merchant networks in big cities	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: Measuring local consumption with payment cards and cell phone pings	4