OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Urban Economics is 2. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Monitoring Police with Body-Worn Cameras: Evidence from Chicago	133
Public housing spillovers: Evidence from South Africa	89
The impact of road rationing on housing demand and sorting	85
“Downs's Law” under the lens of theory: Roads lower congestion and increase distance traveled	81
Household mobility and the political economy and welfare effects of local tax limits	71
Social housing and the spread of population: Evidence from twentieth century Ireland	70
JUE Insight: Powering work from home	62
Local economic impacts of legislative malapportionment	61
Editorial Board	59
Editorial Board	55
The impact of minimum income on homelessness: Evidence from France	51
Special Issue of JUE Insight Papers: Introduction	49
Editorial Board	43
Homeowner politics and housing supply	42
Editorial Board	39
Cities and Smoking	35
Slum growth in Brazilian cities	33
Editorial Board	32
Spatial and historical drivers of fake news diffusion: Evidence from anti-Muslim discrimination in India	30
The structure and growth of ethnic neighborhoods	30
Black Lives Matter’s effect on police lethal use of force	30
JUE Insight: Were urban cowboys enough to control COVID-19? Local shelter-in-place orders and coronavirus case growth	30
Not in my neighbour’s back yard? Laneway homes and neighbours’ property values	26
JUE Insight: The (non-)effect of opportunity zones on housing prices	25
Housing supply and affordability: Evidence from rents, housing consumption and household location	24

Volatility in Home Sales and Prices: Supply or Demand?	23
JUE Insight: The impact of the school admission restriction policy on the housing market in Shanghai	22
JUE Insight: Hot temperatures, aggression, and death at the hands of the police: Evidence from the U.S	22
JUE Insight: Desegregated but still separated? The impact of school integration on student suspensions and special education classification	22
The internal spatial organization of firms: Evidence from Denmark	20
JUE insight: Migration, transportation infrastructure, and the spatial transmission of COVID-19 in China	20
A beam of light: Media, tourism and economic development	20
Definition matters. Metropolitan areas and agglomeration economies in a large-developing country	20
Variation in racial disparities in police use of force	19
Foreclosure externalities and Vacant Property Registration Ordinances	19
The impact of return migration on employment and wages in Mexican cities	18
Trade and the spatial distribution of transport infrastructure	18
Measuring the size and growth of cities using nighttime light	17
Landlords and access to opportunity	17
JUE 2007–2023: Rising impact	17
Measuring urban economic density	17
Can real estate booms hurt firms? Evidence on investment substitution	17
Short-term rentals and the housing market: Quasi-experimental evidence from Airbnb in Los Angeles	17
Who bears the burden of real estate transfer taxes? Evidence from the German housing market	16
Taxes and telework: The impacts of state income taxes in a work-from-home economy	16
Building tall, falling short: An empirical assessment of Chinese skyscrapers	16
The spatial impacts of a massive rail disinvestment program: The Beeching Axe	15
Neighboring capital imports and non-importer productivity: Evidence from geocoded manufacturing firms in China	14
The Spread and Consequences of COVID-19 for Cities: An Introduction	14
Foundations of cities	14
JUE Insight: From referrals to suspensions: New evidence on racial disparities in exclusionary discipline	14
Cities Without Skylines: Worldwide Building-Height Gaps and their Possible Determinants and Implications	13
Local favoritism in China's public procurement: Information frictions or incentive distortion?	13
The effects of cash for clunkers on local air quality	13
JUE insight: Are city centers losing their appeal? Commercial real estate, urban spatial structure, and COVID-19	13
Politically connected cities: Italy 1951–1991	13
Road maintenance and local economic development: Evidence from Indonesia’s highways	12
The economic impacts of the UK's eat out to help out scheme	12
The impact of immigration status on crime reporting: Evidence from DACA	12
JUE insight: The impact of school spending on civic engagement: Evidence from school finance reforms	12
The dynamics of industry agglomeration: Evidence from 44 years of coagglomeration patterns	12
Does the US have an infrastructure cost problem? Evidence from the interstate highway system	12
Introduction to special issue of Journal of Urban Economics: Race, Social Justice, and Cities	11
Academic achievement and wellbeing of dual language learners: Evidence from a busing program	11
Editorial Board	11
JUE Insight: Zoning and property taxation revisited—Was Hamilton right?	11
Pandemics and cities: Evidence from the Black Death and the long-run	11
JUE Insight: COVID-19, race, and gender	11
The marginal cost of mortality risk reduction: Evidence from housing markets	10
Editorial Board	10
A new way of evaluating the optimality of a transportation improvement in a class of urban land use models	10
Editorial Board	10
Front Matter 1 - Full Title Page (regular issues)/Special Issue Title page (special issues)	9
Editorial Board	9
In remembrance Edwin S. Mills (1928-2021)	8

JUE Insight: Condominium development does not lead to gentrification	8
Delineating urban areas using building density	8
Editorial Board	8
Housing market and school choice response to school quality information shocks✰	8
Uber and traffic safety: Evidence from Brazilian cities	8
The Effect of Racial Composition on Neighborhood Housing Prices: Evidence from Hurricane Katrina-Induced Migration	8
Local causes and aggregate implications of land use regulation	8
Crime risk and housing values: Evidence from the gun offender registry	7
Cities and productivity: Evidence from 16 Latin American and Caribbean countries	7
JUE Insight: Difference-in-differences with geocoded microdata	7
Austerity, welfare cuts and hate crime: Evidence from the UK's age of austerity	7
JUE Insight: The geography of pandemic containment	7
JUE Insight: Understanding spatial variation in COVID-19 across the United States	7
Highways and segregation	7
New Evidence on Redlining by Federal Housing Programs in the 1930s	7
Valuing externalities of outdoor advertising in an urban setting – the case of Warsaw	7
The long shadow of local decline: Birthplace economic adversity and long-term individual outcomes in the UK	6
Equilibrium sorting and moral hazard in residential energy contracts	6
The effects of residential landlord–tenant laws: New evidence from Canadian reforms using census data	6
On quantitative spatial economic models	6
City characteristics, land prices and volatility	6
Toxic Metal Injustice? Socioeconomic status at birth and exposure to airborne pollution	5
How bad is crime for business? Evidence from consumer behavior	5
JUE Insight: The Geography of Travel Behavior in the Early Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic	5
Strategic behavior under tradeable driving permits and congestion tolls: A political economy model	5
Local public finance dynamics and hurricane shocks	5
Applying the Degree of Urbanisation to the globe: A new harmonised definition reveals a different picture of global urbanisation	5
Bottleneck congestion and urban spatial structure with heterogeneous households: Equilibrium, capacity expansion and congestion tolling	5
Too slow for the urban march: Litigations and the real estate market in Mumbai, India	5
Appointed public officials and local favoritism: Evidence from the German states	5
Metropolitan areas in the world. Delineation and population trends	5
Matching, centrality and the urban network	4
JUE Insight: The Impacts of Opportunity Zones on Zone Residents	4
Gender differences in job flexibility: Commutes and working hours after job loss	4
Reducing racial disparities in crime victimization: Evidence from employment discrimination litigation	4
JUE Insight: Urban flight seeded the COVID-19 pandemic across the United States	4
The return to big-city experience: Evidence from refugees in Denmark	4
Journal of Urban Economics, 1991–2007	4
Editorial Board	4
JUE insight: Infrastructure and Finance: Evidence from India’s GQ highway network	4
An Alternative Approach to Estimating Foreclosure and Short Sale Discounts	4
JUE insight: Differences in rent growth by income from 1985 to 2021 and implications for inflation	4
Editorial Board	4
Identifying urban areas by combining human judgment and machine learning: An application to India	4
Who lives where in the city? Amenities, commuting and income sorting	4
Minorities and property values: Evidence from residential buildings in Israel	4
Editorial Board	3
Editorial Board	3
The impact of local residential land use restrictions on land values across and within single family housing markets	3
Government Contracting, Labor Intensity, and the Local Effects of Fiscal Consolidation: Evidence from the Budget Control Act of 2011	3
Editorial Board	3
Income shocks and housing spillovers: Evidence from the World War I Veterans’ Bonus	3
Editorial Board	3
Why is the rent so darn high? The role of growing demand to live in housing-supply-inelastic cities	3
JUE Insight: Distributional Impacts of Retail Vaccine Availability	3
Editorial Board	3
Locating Public Facilities: Theory and Micro Evidence from Paris	3
The effect of tax increment financing districts on job creation in Chicago	3
On the economic impacts of mortgage credit expansion policies: Evidence from help to buy	3
Editorial Board	3
Market tremors: Shale gas exploration, earthquakes, and their impact on house prices	3
Editorial Board	3
JUE Insight: What is the impact of opportunity zones on job postings?	3
The amplifying effect of capitalization rates on housing supply	2
The local residential land use regulatory environment across U.S. housing markets: Evidence from a new Wharton index	2
Agglomeration Economies and the Built Environment: Evidence from Specialized Buildings and Anchor Tenants	2
Insecure property rights and the housing market: Explaining India’s housing vacancy paradox	2
Mortgage innovation and house price booms	2
JUE insights: Does mobility explain why slums were hit harder by COVID-19 in Mumbai, India?	2
Nobody’s gonna slow me down? The effects of a transportation cost shock on firm performance and behavior	2
First time around: Local conditions and multi-dimensional integration of refugees	2
Connective financing: Chinese infrastructure projects and the diffusion of economic activity in developing countries	2
Optimal minimum wage setting in a federal system	2
Access to ports and the welfare gains from domestic transportation infrastructure	2
Urban growth shadows	2
Does urban development influence crime? Evidence from Philadelphia’s new zoning regulations	2
House prices, housing wealth and financial well-being	2