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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
JUE 2007–2023: Rising impact	72
Special Issue of JUE Insight Papers: Introduction	58
The effects of comprehensive pay reform on achievement in urban schools	53
The impact of road rationing on housing demand and sorting	52
Who bears the burden of real estate transfer taxes? Evidence from the German housing market	51
Landlords and access to opportunity	47
Rushing to opportunity: City growth and entrepreneurship	43
Public housing spillovers: Evidence from South Africa	42
JUE Insight: The impact of the school admission restriction policy on the housing market in Shanghai	41
Slow traffic, fast food: The effects of time lost on food store choice	39
“Downs's Law” under the lens of theory: Roads lower congestion and increase distance traveled	39
JUE Insight: COVID-19, race, and gender	37
Introduction to special issue of Journal of Urban Economics: Race, Social Justice, and Cities	35
The economic impacts of the UK's eat out to help out scheme	34
The effects of residential landlord–tenant laws: New evidence from Canadian reforms using census data	33
The effects of residential zoning in U.S. housing markets	31
JUE Insight: From referrals to suspensions: New evidence on racial disparities in exclusionary discipline	31
Equilibrium sorting and moral hazard in residential energy contracts	31
Editorial Board	30
Editorial Board	30
The return to big-city experience: Evidence from refugees in Denmark	28
What explains neighborhood sorting by income and race?	27
Editorial Board	26
Urban and spatial economics after 50 years	25
Editorial Board	23

JUE Insight: COVID-19 and household preference for urban density in China	23
Attenuation of agglomeration economies: Evidence from the universe of Chinese manufacturing firms	23
Taxi service with heterogeneous drivers and a competitive medallion market	22
Bunching in real-estate markets: Regulated building heights in New York City	21
Collaboration and connectivity: Historical evidence from patent records	20
Tourism growth, education decline: Evidence from China’s 5A attraction expansion	20
Editorial Board	19
The Problem Has Existed over Endless Years: Racialized Difference in Commuting, 1980–2019	19
Asian immigrants, school quality, and the U.S. housing market	19
Editorial Board	19
Congestion and incentives in the age of driverless fleets	18
Commuting, gender and children	17
Pushing towards shared mobility	17
Spatial inequality and housing in China	16
Minimum wage increases and eviction risk	16
The geography of mortgage interest deductions	16
Social housing and the spread of population: Evidence from twentieth century Ireland	15
Colonial Roads and Regional Inequality	15
Cities and the sea level	15
Impact of fertility relaxation on the housing market outcomes	14
Selective migration and regional decline: Evidence from coal country	14
JUE insight: Do ride-sharing services cause urban air pollution?	14
Editorial Board	14
JUE Insight: Hot temperatures, aggression, and death at the hands of the police: Evidence from the U.S	14
Highways and segregation	13
Volatility in Home Sales and Prices: Supply or Demand?	13
Politically connected cities: Italy 1951–1991	13
Foundations of cities	13
Editorial Board	13
Black Lives Matter’s effect on police lethal use of force	13
Editorial Board	12
The effects of cash for clunkers on local air quality	12
New Evidence on Redlining by Federal Housing Programs in the 1930s	12
Insecure property rights and the housing market: Explaining India’s housing vacancy paradox	12
Valuing externalities of outdoor advertising in an urban setting – the case of Warsaw	12
Gender differences in job flexibility: Commutes and working hours after job loss	11
Editorial Board	11
JUE Insight: The Impacts of Opportunity Zones on Zone Residents	10
On the economic impacts of mortgage credit expansion policies: Evidence from help to buy	10
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	9
The economics of skyscrapers: A synthesis	9
You can’t sit with us: How locals and tourists compete for amenities in Paris	9
Editorial Board	9
Long-term effects of weather-induced migration on urban labor and housing markets	9
JUE Insight: Is hospital quality predictive of pandemic deaths? Evidence from US counties	9
JUE Insight: Immigrants, social transfers for education, and spatial interactions	8
Do people accept different cultures?	8
The structure and growth of ethnic neighborhoods	8
Delivery in the city: Differentiated products competition among New York restaurants	8

JUE Insight: White flight from Asian immigration: Evidence from California Public Schools	8
Black-Friendly businesses in cities during the Civil Rights Era	8
Making housing affordable? The local effects of relaxing land-use regulation	8
The city-wide effects of tolling downtown drivers: Evidence from London’s congestion charge	8
Will you follow your job to the suburbs?	7
Household mobility and the political economy and welfare effects of local tax limits	7
Editorial Board	7
The long shadow of local decline: Birthplace economic adversity and long-term individual outcomes in the UK	7
Monitoring Police with Body-Worn Cameras: Evidence from Chicago	7
JUE Insight: Desegregated but still separated? The impact of school integration on student suspensions and special education classification	7
Editorial Board	7
Does rent control increase tenant unemployment?	7
JUE Insight: Powering work from home	7
The labor market outcomes of jurisdictional consolidation: Evidence from city–county mergers in China	7
Cities Without Skylines: Worldwide Building-Height Gaps and their Possible Determinants and Implications	7
JUE insight: The impact of school spending on civic engagement: Evidence from school finance reforms	7
Income shocks and housing spillovers: Evidence from the World War I Veterans’ Bonus	6
House prices, housing wealth and financial well-being	6
The role of agents in fraudulent activities: Evidence from the housing market in Beijing	6
Housing market and school choice response to school quality information shocks✰	6
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]	6
City characteristics, land prices and volatility	6
Test scores, schools, and the geography of economic opportunity	6
Follow thy neighbor: The role of first exporters	6
Cities and productivity: Evidence from 16 Latin American and Caribbean countries	6
JUE Insight: Urban flight seeded the COVID-19 pandemic across the United States	6
Judge for yourself? The impact of controls on the rental market in interwar New York	6
Industrial Transfer Policy in China: Migration and development	6
Pandemics and cities: Evidence from the Black Death and the long-run	6
Unlocking neighborhood density	5
Editorial Board	5
Tastes, geography and culture	5
Where the rubber meets the road: Pavement damage reduces traffic safety and speed	5
Editorial Board	5
Take the Q train: Value capture of public infrastructure projects	5
JUE insight: Expectations about future tax rates and firm entry	5
JUE Insight: Measuring local consumption with payment cards and cell phone pings	5
JUE insight: Moving cost magnitudes in moving cost models	5
The effect of subway policies on gasoline consumption: Subway expansion versus fare changes	5
Should cities disband their police departments?	5
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	5
Migration crisis in the local news: Evidence from the French–Italian border	4
Did cities increase skills during industrialization? Evidence from rural-urban migration	4
Identifying the general equilibrium effects of narcotics enforcement	4
In remembrance Edwin S. Mills (1928-2021)	4
Merchant networks in big cities	4
The size and Census coverage of the U.S. homeless population	4
The impact of return migration on employment and wages in Mexican cities	4
Editorial Board	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 effect of low-skilled immigration on local productivity and amenities: Learning from the South Korean experience	4
Working from home increases work–home distances	4