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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
JUE 2007–2023: Rising impact	61
Special Issue of JUE Insight Papers: Introduction	54
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	46
Rushing to opportunity: City growth and entrepreneurship	43
Public housing spillovers: Evidence from South Africa	42
Slow traffic, fast food: The effects of time lost on food store choice	40
JUE Insight: The impact of the school admission restriction policy on the housing market in Shanghai	40
“Downs's Law” under the lens of theory: Roads lower congestion and increase distance traveled	39
The effects of comprehensive pay reform on achievement in urban schools	34
JUE Insight: COVID-19, race, and gender	33
Introduction to special issue of Journal of Urban Economics: Race, Social Justice, and Cities	31
The economic impacts of the UK's eat out to help out scheme	31
The effects of residential landlord–tenant laws: New evidence from Canadian reforms using census data	30
The effects of residential zoning in U.S. housing markets	28
JUE Insight: From referrals to suspensions: New evidence on racial disparities in exclusionary discipline	27
Editorial Board	25
Editorial Board	25
Urban and spatial economics after 50 years	23
Editorial Board	23
The return to big-city experience: Evidence from refugees in Denmark	23
JUE Insight: COVID-19 and household preference for urban density in China	21
What explains neighborhood sorting by income and race?	21
Attenuation of agglomeration economies: Evidence from the universe of Chinese manufacturing firms	21
Editorial Board	20

Taxi service with heterogeneous drivers and a competitive medallion market	19
Collaboration and connectivity: Historical evidence from patent records	19
Bunching in real-estate markets: Regulated building heights in New York City	19
Tourism growth, education decline: Evidence from China’s 5A attraction expansion	18
The Problem Has Existed over Endless Years: Racialized Difference in Commuting, 1980–2019	17
Asian immigrants, school quality, and the U.S. housing market	17
The geography of mortgage interest deductions	16
Editorial Board	16
Pushing towards shared mobility	16
Editorial Board	16
Congestion and incentives in the age of driverless fleets	16
Cities and the sea level	15
Commuting, gender and children	15
Spatial inequality and housing in China	15
Colonial Roads and Regional Inequality	15
Selective migration and regional decline: Evidence from coal country	14
Social housing and the spread of population: Evidence from twentieth century Ireland	14
JUE insight: Do ride-sharing services cause urban air pollution?	14
Impact of fertility relaxation on the housing market outcomes	14
Editorial Board	13
JUE Insight: Hot temperatures, aggression, and death at the hands of the police: Evidence from the U.S	13
Volatility in Home Sales and Prices: Supply or Demand?	13
Black Lives Matter’s effect on police lethal use of force	13
Foundations of cities	13
Editorial Board	12
Valuing externalities of outdoor advertising in an urban setting – the case of Warsaw	12
Politically connected cities: Italy 1951–1991	12
Highways and segregation	11
The effects of cash for clunkers on local air quality	11
Insecure property rights and the housing market: Explaining India’s housing vacancy paradox	10
New Evidence on Redlining by Federal Housing Programs in the 1930s	10
Editorial Board	10
On the economic impacts of mortgage credit expansion policies: Evidence from help to buy	10
Editorial Board	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
Editorial Board	9
JUE Insight: Is hospital quality predictive of pandemic deaths? Evidence from US counties	9
JUE Insight: The Impacts of Opportunity Zones on Zone Residents	9
You can’t sit with us: How locals and tourists compete for amenities in Paris	9
Black-Friendly businesses in cities during the Civil Rights Era	8
Long-term effects of weather-induced migration on urban labor and housing markets	8
Delivery in the city: Differentiated products competition among New York restaurants	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
JUE Insight: Immigrants, social transfers for education, and spatial interactions	8
Editorial Board	8
Do people accept different cultures?	8
JUE Insight: White flight from Asian immigration: Evidence from California Public Schools	8
Old but gold: Historical pathways and path dependence	7

Will you follow your job to the suburbs?	7
JUE insight: The impact of school spending on civic engagement: Evidence from school finance reforms	7
The structure and growth of ethnic neighborhoods	7
JUE Insight: Desegregated but still separated? The impact of school integration on student suspensions and special education classification	7
Household mobility and the political economy and welfare effects of local tax limits	7
JUE Insight: Powering work from home	7
Monitoring Police with Body-Worn Cameras: Evidence from Chicago	7
The labor market outcomes of jurisdictional consolidation: Evidence from city–county mergers in China	7
Test scores, schools, and the geography of economic opportunity	6
Pandemics and cities: Evidence from the Black Death and the long-run	6
Editorial Board	6
Follow thy neighbor: The role of first exporters	6
Does rent control increase tenant unemployment?	6
The long shadow of local decline: Birthplace economic adversity and long-term individual outcomes in the UK	6
Judge for yourself? The impact of controls on the rental market in interwar New York	6
Cities and productivity: Evidence from 16 Latin American and Caribbean countries	6
Income shocks and housing spillovers: Evidence from the World War I Veterans’ Bonus	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
Cities Without Skylines: Worldwide Building-Height Gaps and their Possible Determinants and Implications	6
JUE Insight: Urban flight seeded the COVID-19 pandemic across the United States	6
City characteristics, land prices and volatility	6
Unlocking neighborhood density	5
The effect of subway policies on gasoline consumption: Subway expansion versus fare changes	5
Should cities disband their police departments?	5
Industrial Transfer Policy in China: Migration and development	5
Tastes, geography and culture	5
JUE insight: Moving cost magnitudes in moving cost models	5
Editorial Board	5
The role of agents in fraudulent activities: Evidence from the housing market in Beijing	5
JUE insight: Expectations about future tax rates and firm entry	5
Editorial Board	5
Migration crisis in the local news: Evidence from the French–Italian border	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
Did cities increase skills during industrialization? Evidence from rural-urban migration	4
Where the rubber meets the road: Pavement damage reduces traffic safety and speed	4
The size and Census coverage of the U.S. homeless population	4
JUE Insight: Measuring local consumption with payment cards and cell phone pings	4
The impact of return migration on employment and wages in Mexican cities	4
JUE insight: The role of establishment size in the city-size earnings premium	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
Working from home increases work–home distances	4
Corrigendum to “Judge for Yourself? The Impact of Controls on the Rental Market in Interwar New York” [Journal of Urban Economics, Volume 153 (2026), Article 103859]	4
Local public finance dynamics and hurricane shocks	3
Does urbanization cause crime? Evidence from rural–urban migration in South Africa	3
Does the US have an infrastructure cost problem? Evidence from the interstate highway system	3
The Effect of Racial Composition on Neighborhood Housing Prices: Evidence from Hurricane Katrina-Induced Migration	3
Identifying the general equilibrium effects of narcotics enforcement	3
The marginal cost of mortality risk reduction: Evidence from housing markets	3
Government Contracting, Labor Intensity, and the Local Effects of Fiscal Consolidation: Evidence from the Budget Control Act of 2011	3
Sticky places: The effect of college on where you live	3
In remembrance Edwin S. Mills (1928-2021)	3
JUE Insight: Zoning and property taxation revisited—Was Hamilton right?	3
JUE Insight: Condominium development does not lead to gentrification	3
Journal of Urban Economics, 1991–2007	3
The effect of tax increment financing districts on job creation in Chicago	3
JUE Insight: What is the impact of opportunity zones on job postings?	3
Editorial Board	3
JUE Insight: Difference-in-differences with geocoded microdata	3
The air quality effects of Uber	3
Reducing the burden of mental illness on the criminal justice system: Evidence from light-touch outreach	3