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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
“Downs's Law” under the lens of theory: Roads lower congestion and increase distance traveled	171
Special Issue of JUE Insight Papers: Introduction	113
JUE 2007–2023: Rising impact	104
Not in my neighbour’s back yard? Laneway homes and neighbours’ property values	91
Slow traffic, fast food: The effects of time lost on food store choice	89
Who bears the burden of real estate transfer taxes? Evidence from the German housing market	81
Landlords and access to opportunity	78
JUE Insight: Were urban cowboys enough to control COVID-19? Local shelter-in-place orders and coronavirus case growth	69
Public housing spillovers: Evidence from South Africa	67
JUE Insight: The impact of the school admission restriction policy on the housing market in Shanghai	67
The impact of road rationing on housing demand and sorting	65
The internal spatial organization of firms: Evidence from Denmark	49
The Spread and Consequences of COVID-19 for Cities: An Introduction	48
Introduction to special issue of Journal of Urban Economics: Race, Social Justice, and Cities	45
Equilibrium sorting and moral hazard in residential energy contracts	43
The effects of residential landlord–tenant laws: New evidence from Canadian reforms using census data	40
A new way of evaluating the optimality of a transportation improvement in a class of urban land use models	39
JUE Insight: COVID-19, race, and gender	35
The economic impacts of the UK's eat out to help out scheme	35
JUE Insight: From referrals to suspensions: New evidence on racial disparities in exclusionary discipline	33
Applying the Degree of Urbanisation to the globe: A new harmonised definition reveals a different picture of global urbanisation	31
JUE Insight: The Geography of Travel Behavior in the Early Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic	31
The return to big-city experience: Evidence from refugees in Denmark	29
Editorial Board	29
Strategic behavior under tradeable driving permits and congestion tolls: A political economy model	28

Editorial Board	27
JUE Insight: COVID-19 and household preference for urban density in China	26
Attenuation of agglomeration economies: Evidence from the universe of Chinese manufacturing firms	26
Urban and spatial economics after 50 years	26
Editorial Board	26
What explains neighborhood sorting by income and race?	26
Taxi service with heterogeneous drivers and a competitive medallion market	25
Bunching in real-estate markets: Regulated building heights in New York City	25
Editorial Board	25
JUE insight: Demand for transportation and spatial pattern of economic activity during the pandemic	24
The Problem Has Existed over Endless Years: Racialized Difference in Commuting, 1980–2019	23
The effect of LTV-based risk weights on house prices: Evidence from an Israeli macroprudential policy	23
Citywide parking policy and traffic: Evidence from Amsterdam	22
Collaboration and connectivity: Historical evidence from patent records	22
JUE Insight: Measuring movement and social contact with smartphone data: a real-time application to COVID-19	22
Spatial inequality and housing in China	21
Congestion and incentives in the age of driverless fleets	21
Cities and the sea level	20
Editorial Board	20
Commuting, gender and children	20
Minimum wage increases and eviction risk	20
Editorial Board	20
Colonial Roads and Regional Inequality	19
Pushing towards shared mobility	18
The geography of mortgage interest deductions	18
Editorial Board	17
Foundations of cities	17
Definition matters. Metropolitan areas and agglomeration economies in a large-developing country	16
Social housing and the spread of population: Evidence from twentieth century Ireland	16
Volatility in Home Sales and Prices: Supply or Demand?	16
JUE Insight: Hot temperatures, aggression, and death at the hands of the police: Evidence from the U.S	16
Black Lives Matter’s effect on police lethal use of force	16
Editorial Board	15
Editorial Board	15
New Evidence on Redlining by Federal Housing Programs in the 1930s	14
Highways and segregation	14
The effects of cash for clunkers on local air quality	14
Politically connected cities: Italy 1951–1991	14
Valuing externalities of outdoor advertising in an urban setting – the case of Warsaw	13
Appointed public officials and local favoritism: Evidence from the German states	13
On the economic impacts of mortgage credit expansion policies: Evidence from help to buy	12
Editorial Board	12
Editorial Board	12
JUE insight: Are city centers losing their appeal? Commercial real estate, urban spatial structure, and COVID-19	12
Access to ports and the welfare gains from domestic transportation infrastructure	12
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
JUE Insight: The Impacts of Opportunity Zones on Zone Residents	11
JUE Insight: Is hospital quality predictive of pandemic deaths? Evidence from US counties	10
Editorial Board	10

JUE Insight: The Effect of Relaxing Local Housing Market Regulations on Federal Rental Assistance Programs	10
Delivery in the city: Differentiated products competition among New York restaurants	9
Making housing affordable? The local effects of relaxing land-use regulation	9
JUE Insight: White flight from Asian immigration: Evidence from California Public Schools	9
The economics of skyscrapers: A synthesis	9
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
Do people accept different cultures?	8
Editorial Board	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
Violence, development, and migration waves: Evidence from Central American child migrant apprehensions	8
The city-wide effects of tolling downtown drivers: Evidence from London’s congestion charge	8
JUE Insight: The geographic spread of COVID-19 correlates with the structure of social networks as measured by Facebook	8
JUE insight: Migration, transportation infrastructure, and the spatial transmission of COVID-19 in China	7
The structure and growth of ethnic neighborhoods	7
Housing market and school choice response to school quality information shocks✰	7
JUE Insight: Desegregated but still separated? The impact of school integration on student suspensions and special education classification	7
Monitoring Police with Body-Worn Cameras: Evidence from Chicago	7
JUE Insight: Powering work from home	7
Household mobility and the political economy and welfare effects of local tax limits	7
City characteristics, land prices and volatility	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
Pandemics and cities: Evidence from the Black Death and the long-run	6
Delineating urban areas using building density	6
JUE insight: The impact of school spending on civic engagement: Evidence from school finance reforms	6
Front Matter 1 - Full Title Page (regular issues)/Special Issue Title page (special issues)	6
Cities Without Skylines: Worldwide Building-Height Gaps and their Possible Determinants and Implications	6
JUE Insight: Distributional Impacts of Retail Vaccine Availability	5
Income shocks and housing spillovers: Evidence from the World War I Veterans’ Bonus	5
Test scores, schools, and the geography of economic opportunity	5
The amplifying effect of capitalization rates on housing supply	5
House prices, housing wealth and financial well-being	5
Who lives where in the city? Amenities, commuting and income sorting	5
Editorial Board	5
Identifying urban areas by combining human judgment and machine learning: An application to India	5
JUE Insight: Urban flight seeded the COVID-19 pandemic across the United States	5
Measuring the Value of Urban Consumption Amenities: A Time-Use Approach	4
Classifying locations and delineating space: An introduction	4
Unlocking neighborhood density	4
JUE insight: Expectations about future tax rates and firm entry	4
Take the Q train: Value capture of public infrastructure projects	4
Editorial Board	4
Detecting urban markets with satellite imagery: An application to India	4
Decomposing the employment effects of investment subsidies	4
Cities and tasks	4
JUE insight: Learning epidemiology by doing: The empirical implications of a Spatial-SIR model with behavioral responses	4
Merchant networks in big cities	4
JUE insight: The role of establishment size in the city-size earnings premium	4
The role of agents in fraudulent activities: Evidence from the housing market in Beijing	4
Editorial Board	4
Editorial Board	4
Editorial Board	4
The effect of low-skilled immigration on local productivity and amenities: Learning from the South Korean experience	3
The local labour market effects of light rail transit	3
Measuring urban economic density	3
Editorial Board	3
In remembrance Edwin S. Mills (1928-2021)	3
Should cities disband their police departments?	3
Life in the slow lane: Unintended consequences of public transit in Jakarta	3
Short-term rentals and the housing market: Quasi-experimental evidence from Airbnb in Los Angeles	3
JUE Insight: Zoning and property taxation revisited—Was Hamilton right?	3
JUE Insight: Condominium development does not lead to gentrification	3
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	3
The size and Census coverage of the U.S. homeless population	3
Measuring the size and growth of cities using nighttime light	3
Editorial Board	3
The impact of return migration on employment and wages in Mexican cities	3