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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The effect of natural disasters on economic activity in US counties: A century of data	117
Do short-term rental platforms affect housing markets? Evidence from Airbnb in Barcelona	100
Applying the Degree of Urbanisation to the globe: A new harmonised definition reveals a different picture of global urbanisation	99
Urban revival in America	80
JUE Insight: How do cities change when we work from home?	73
JUE Insight: How much does COVID-19 increase with mobility? Evidence from New York and four other U.S. cities	72
Housing markets in a pandemic: Evidence from historical outbreaks	68
JUE insight: Are city centers losing their appeal? Commercial real estate, urban spatial structure, and COVID-19	64
Social connectedness in urban areas	61
JUE Insight: The determinants of the differential exposure to COVID-19 in New York city and their evolution over time	56
JUE Insight: Understanding spatial variation in COVID-19 across the United States	54
Metropolitan areas in the world. Delineation and population trends	51
JUE Insight: The geographic spread of COVID-19 correlates with the structure of social networks as measured by Facebook	47
Short-term rentals and the housing market: Quasi-experimental evidence from Airbnb in Los Angeles	47
JUE Insight: College student travel contributed to local COVID-19 spread	41
Accounting for central neighborhood change, 1980–2010	40
Building(s and) cities: Delineating urban areas with a machine learning algorithm	33
Cities, lights, and skills in developing economies	33
The local residential land use regulatory environment across U.S. housing markets: Evidence from a new Wharton index	32
Measuring urban economic density	32
The capitalization of energy efficiency: Evidence from the housing market	28
JUE Insight: Were urban cowboys enough to control COVID-19? Local shelter-in-place orders and coronavirus case growth	27
Information value of property description: A Machine learning approach	27
The Cost of Traffic: Evidence from the London Congestion Charge	26
Measuring the size and growth of cities using nighttime light	25

The congestion costs of Uber and Lyft	25
Urban growth shadows	25
Immigration enforcement awareness and community engagement with police: Evidence from domestic violence calls in Los Angeles	23
Do political connections help or hinder urban economic growth? Evidence from 1,400 industrial parks in China	23
The impact of public employment: Evidence from Bonn	23
JUE Insight: Measuring movement and social contact with smartphone data: a real-time application to COVID-19	22
Do urban wage premia reflect lower amenities? Evidence from Africa	22
Geographical proximity to refugee reception centres and voting	21
National transportation networks, market access, and regional economic growth	21
Cities and the structure of social interactions: Evidence from mobile phone data	20
JUE Insight: The Geography of Travel Behavior in the Early Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic	20
Detecting urban markets with satellite imagery: An application to India	20
Definition matters. Metropolitan areas and agglomeration economies in a large-developing country	20
Take the Q train: Value capture of public infrastructure projects	19
Delineating urban areas using building density	18
JUE Insight: The effect of new market-rate housing construction on the low-income housing market	16
Who lives where in the city? Amenities, commuting and income sorting	16
Violence, development, and migration waves: Evidence from Central American child migrant apprehensions	15
Calling from the outside: The role of networks in residential mobility	15
JUE Insight: From referrals to suspensions: New evidence on racial disparities in exclusionary discipline	15
Commuting and innovation: Are closer inventors more productive?	15
Echoes of rising tuition in students’ borrowing, educational attainment, and homeownership in post-recession America	14
Classifying locations and delineating space: An introduction	14
The economics of skyscrapers: A synthesis	14
The effect of LTV-based risk weights on house prices: Evidence from an Israeli macroprudential policy	13
New Evidence on Redlining by Federal Housing Programs in the 1930s	13
Why is the rent so darn high? The role of growing demand to live in housing-supply-inelastic cities	12
Housing supply and affordability: Evidence from rents, housing consumption and household location	12
Household mortgage refinancing decisions are neighbor influenced, especially along racial lines	12
Railways, divergence, and structural change in 19th century England and Wales	12
Appointed public officials and local favoritism: Evidence from the German states	12
The COVID-19 pandemic and unemployment: Evidence from mobile phone data from China	12
JUE insight: Learning epidemiology by doing: The empirical implications of a Spatial-SIR model with behavioral responses	12
Effects of COVID‐19 shutdowns on domestic violence in US cities	12
Slum growth in Brazilian cities	12
The local labour market effects of light rail transit	12
Citywide parking policy and traffic: Evidence from Amsterdam	12
Local access to mental healthcare and crime	11
The impact of local residential land use restrictions on land values across and within single family housing markets	11
On the economic impacts of constraining second home investments	11
Identifying urban areas by combining human judgment and machine learning: An application to India	11
JUE Insight: COVID-19 and household preference for urban density in China	10
Police safety, killings by the police, and the militarization of US law enforcement	10
Market tremors: Shale gas exploration, earthquakes, and their impact on house prices	10
Enabled to work: The impact of government housing on slum dwellers in South Africa	10
Uber and traffic safety: Evidence from Brazilian cities	10
Attenuation of agglomeration economies: Evidence from the universe of Chinese manufacturing firms	9
Local public finance dynamics and hurricane shocks	9
City size, pollution and emission policies	9
JUE insights: Does mobility explain why slums were hit harder by COVID-19 in Mumbai, India?	9

The long-term impact of the resettlement of the Sudetenland on residential migration	9
JUE Insight: The Impacts of Opportunity Zones on Zone Residents	9
Preferences of public transit commuters: Evidence from smart card data in Singapore	8
Land tenure and land-use in a developing city: A quantitative spatial model applied to Kampala, Uganda	8
JUE insight: Migration, transportation infrastructure, and the spatial transmission of COVID-19 in China	8
Age-based property tax exemptions	8
JUE Insight: Urban flight seeded the COVID-19 pandemic across the United States	8
The local economic impacts of regeneration projects: Evidence from UK's single regeneration budget	8
The dynamics of industry agglomeration: Evidence from 44 years of coagglomeration patterns	8
JUE Insight: City-wide effects of new housing supply: Evidence from moving chains	7
Life in the slow lane: Unintended consequences of public transit in Jakarta	7
The internal spatial organization of firms: Evidence from Denmark	7
The impact of upzoning on housing construction in Auckland	7
Water purification efforts and the black‐white infant mortality gap, 1906–1938	7
Rail accidents and property values in the era of unconventional energy production	7
The role of demand in land re-development	6
The local impact of containerization	6
The return to big-city experience: Evidence from refugees in Denmark	6
Austerity, welfare cuts and hate crime: Evidence from the UK's age of austerity	6
Measuring human capital divergence in a growing economy	6
Migrating natives and foreign immigration: Is there a preference for ethnic residential homogeneity?	6
The amplifying effect of capitalization rates on housing supply	6
Trade and the spatial distribution of transport infrastructure	6
Revisiting the effects of housing transfer taxes	6
Too slow for the urban march: Litigations and the real estate market in Mumbai, India	6
Gender differences in job flexibility: Commutes and working hours after job loss	6
Landlords and access to opportunity	6
First time around: Local conditions and multi-dimensional integration of refugees	5
How bad is crime for business? Evidence from consumer behavior	5
Foreclosure externalities and Vacant Property Registration Ordinances	5
What explains neighborhood sorting by income and race?	5
House prices, housing wealth and financial well-being	5
JUE Insight: The (non-)effect of opportunity zones on housing prices	5
Local economic impacts of legislative malapportionment	5
JUE insight: Demand for transportation and spatial pattern of economic activity during the pandemic	5
Strategic behavior under tradeable driving permits and congestion tolls: A political economy model	5
Insecure property rights and the housing market: Explaining India’s housing vacancy paradox	5
JUE Insight: Desegregated but still separated? The impact of school integration on student suspensions and special education classification	5
Not in my neighbour’s back yard? Laneway homes and neighbours’ property values	5
Taxes and Borrower Behavior: Evidence from the Mortgage Interest Deductibility Limit	5
In the eye of the storm: Firms and capital destruction in India	4
The effect of immigration enforcement on crime reporting: Evidence from Dallas	4
Cities on pre-Columbian paths	4
The effect of tax increment financing districts on job creation in Chicago	4
The Effect of Racial Composition on Neighborhood Housing Prices: Evidence from Hurricane Katrina-Induced Migration	4
Aspiration adaptation in resource-constrained environments	4
Rent Control, Market Segmentation, and Misallocation: Causal Evidence from a Large-Scale Policy Intervention	4
Decomposing the employment effects of investment subsidies	4
Cities Without Skylines: Worldwide Building-Height Gaps and their Possible Determinants and Implications	4
The price and allocation effects of targeted mandates: Evidence from lead hazards	4
Tax decentralization notwithstanding regional disparities	4
Cities and tasks	4
On quantitative spatial economic models	4
Minimum wage increases and eviction risk	3
Can social media rhetoric incite hate incidents? Evidence from Trump's “Chinese Virus” tweets	3
Access to ports and the welfare gains from domestic transportation infrastructure	3
The Spread and Consequences of COVID-19 for Cities: An Introduction	3
Merchant networks in big cities	3
JUE Insight: Is hospital quality predictive of pandemic deaths? Evidence from US counties	3
JUE Insight: Distributional Impacts of Retail Vaccine Availability	3
JUE Insight: Difference-in-differences with geocoded microdata	3
Colonial Roads and Regional Inequality	3
Child access prevention laws and juvenile firearm-related homicides	3
The value of climate amenities: A comparison of hedonic and discrete choice approaches	3
JUE Insight: The geography of pandemic containment	3
Valuing externalities of outdoor advertising in an urban setting – the case of Warsaw	3