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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
JUE 2007–2023: Rising impact	132
Who bears the burden of real estate transfer taxes? Evidence from the German housing market	117
“Downs's Law” under the lens of theory: Roads lower congestion and increase distance traveled	88
Not in my neighbour’s back yard? Laneway homes and neighbours’ property values	79
Rushing to opportunity: City growth and entrepreneurship	74
Special Issue of JUE Insight Papers: Introduction	67
JUE Insight: The impact of the school admission restriction policy on the housing market in Shanghai	58
Landlords and access to opportunity	49
The impact of road rationing on housing demand and sorting	46
Slow traffic, fast food: The effects of time lost on food store choice	43
JUE Insight: Were urban cowboys enough to control COVID-19? Local shelter-in-place orders and coronavirus case growth	43
Public housing spillovers: Evidence from South Africa	38
The effects of residential zoning in U.S. housing markets	36
JUE Insight: COVID-19, race, and gender	36
The economic impacts of the UK's eat out to help out scheme	34
Equilibrium sorting and moral hazard in residential energy contracts	33
JUE Insight: From referrals to suspensions: New evidence on racial disparities in exclusionary discipline	32
A new way of evaluating the optimality of a transportation improvement in a class of urban land use models	31
The Spread and Consequences of COVID-19 for Cities: An Introduction	30
The effects of residential landlord–tenant laws: New evidence from Canadian reforms using census data	30
Introduction to special issue of Journal of Urban Economics: Race, Social Justice, and Cities	30
Editorial Board	28
JUE Insight: The Geography of Travel Behavior in the Early Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic	28
The return to big-city experience: Evidence from refugees in Denmark	28
Strategic behavior under tradeable driving permits and congestion tolls: A political economy model	28

Editorial Board	26
Urban and spatial economics after 50 years	26
Editorial Board	26
Attenuation of agglomeration economies: Evidence from the universe of Chinese manufacturing firms	25
JUE Insight: COVID-19 and household preference for urban density in China	25
What explains neighborhood sorting by income and race?	24
Editorial Board	23
Bunching in real-estate markets: Regulated building heights in New York City	22
Taxi service with heterogeneous drivers and a competitive medallion market	22
Collaboration and connectivity: Historical evidence from patent records	22
Citywide parking policy and traffic: Evidence from Amsterdam	21
JUE insight: Demand for transportation and spatial pattern of economic activity during the pandemic	21
JUE Insight: Measuring movement and social contact with smartphone data: a real-time application to COVID-19	21
Tourism growth, education decline: Evidence from China’s 5A attraction expansion	21
The Problem Has Existed over Endless Years: Racialized Difference in Commuting, 1980–2019	20
The geography of mortgage interest deductions	19
Editorial Board	19
Editorial Board	18
Colonial Roads and Regional Inequality	17
Minimum wage increases and eviction risk	16
Commuting, gender and children	16
Congestion and incentives in the age of driverless fleets	14
Spatial inequality and housing in China	14
JUE Insight: Hot temperatures, aggression, and death at the hands of the police: Evidence from the U.S	14
Cities and the sea level	14
Foundations of cities	14
Pushing towards shared mobility	14
Editorial Board	13
JUE insight: Do ride-sharing services cause urban air pollution?	13
The effects of cash for clunkers on local air quality	12
Volatility in Home Sales and Prices: Supply or Demand?	12
Politically connected cities: Italy 1951–1991	12
Social housing and the spread of population: Evidence from twentieth century Ireland	12
Impact of fertility relaxation on the housing market outcomes	12
Black Lives Matter’s effect on police lethal use of force	12
Editorial Board	11
Editorial Board	11
Valuing externalities of outdoor advertising in an urban setting – the case of Warsaw	11
On the economic impacts of mortgage credit expansion policies: Evidence from help to buy	11
New Evidence on Redlining by Federal Housing Programs in the 1930s	11
Highways and segregation	11
JUE insight: Are city centers losing their appeal? Commercial real estate, urban spatial structure, and COVID-19	11
Insecure property rights and the housing market: Explaining India’s housing vacancy paradox	10
Editorial Board	10
Gender differences in job flexibility: Commutes and working hours after job loss	10
JUE Insight: The Impacts of Opportunity Zones on Zone Residents	10
JUE Insight: The Effect of Relaxing Local Housing Market Regulations on Federal Rental Assistance Programs	10
Access to ports and the welfare gains from domestic transportation infrastructure	10
The economics of skyscrapers: A synthesis	9
JUE Insight: Is hospital quality predictive of pandemic deaths? Evidence from US counties	9

JUE Insight: White flight from Asian immigration: Evidence from California Public Schools	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
Delivery in the city: Differentiated products competition among New York restaurants	9
Editorial Board	9
You can’t sit with us: How locals and tourists compete for amenities in Paris	9
The economic cost of locking down like China: Evidence from city-to-city truck flows	9
Making housing affordable? The local effects of relaxing land-use regulation	8
Black-Friendly businesses in cities during the Civil Rights Era	8
Do people accept different cultures?	8
JUE Insight: The geographic spread of COVID-19 correlates with the structure of social networks as measured by Facebook	8
The labor market outcomes of jurisdictional consolidation: Evidence from city–county mergers in China	8
The city-wide effects of tolling downtown drivers: Evidence from London’s congestion charge	8
Monitoring Police with Body-Worn Cameras: Evidence from Chicago	8
JUE insight: The impact of school spending on civic engagement: Evidence from school finance reforms	7
Editorial Board	7
JUE insight: Migration, transportation infrastructure, and the spatial transmission of COVID-19 in China	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
Does rent control increase tenant unemployment?	7
JUE Insight: Powering work from home	7
The structure and growth of ethnic neighborhoods	7
The long shadow of local decline: Birthplace economic adversity and long-term individual outcomes in the UK	6
City characteristics, land prices and volatility	6
Editorial Board	6
Cities Without Skylines: Worldwide Building-Height Gaps and their Possible Determinants and Implications	6
Pandemics and cities: Evidence from the Black Death and the long-run	6
Who lives where in the city? Amenities, commuting and income sorting	6
JUE Insight: Distributional Impacts of Retail Vaccine Availability	6
Housing market and school choice response to school quality information shocks✰	6
Cities and productivity: Evidence from 16 Latin American and Caribbean countries	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
JUE insight: Learning epidemiology by doing: The empirical implications of a Spatial-SIR model with behavioral responses	5
Editorial Board	5
Cities and tasks	5
JUE Insight: Urban flight seeded the COVID-19 pandemic across the United States	5
Income shocks and housing spillovers: Evidence from the World War I Veterans’ Bonus	5
Editorial Board	5
Tastes, geography and culture	5
Did cities increase skills during industrialization? Evidence from rural-urban migration	5
The role of agents in fraudulent activities: Evidence from the housing market in Beijing	5
The amplifying effect of capitalization rates on housing supply	5
House prices, housing wealth and financial well-being	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	5
Test scores, schools, and the geography of economic opportunity	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
Take the Q train: Value capture of public infrastructure projects	5
Should cities disband their police departments?	4
JUE insight: The role of establishment size in the city-size earnings premium	4
The effect of low-skilled immigration on local productivity and amenities: Learning from the South Korean experience	4
The impact of return migration on employment and wages in Mexican cities	4
The marginal cost of mortality risk reduction: Evidence from housing markets	4
The size and Census coverage of the U.S. homeless population	4
Where the rubber meets the road: Pavement damage reduces traffic safety and speed	4
Merchant networks in big cities	4
Life in the slow lane: Unintended consequences of public transit in Jakarta	4
In remembrance Edwin S. Mills (1928-2021)	4
JUE Insight: Zoning and property taxation revisited—Was Hamilton right?	4
Editorial Board	4
JUE Insight: Measuring local consumption with payment cards and cell phone pings	4
Measuring the Value of Urban Consumption Amenities: A Time-Use Approach	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
Editorial Board	4