Journal of Urban Economics

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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
JUE 2007–2023: Rising impact61
Special Issue of JUE Insight Papers: Introduction60
The impact of road rationing on housing demand and sorting58
Rushing to opportunity: City growth and entrepreneurship51
Slow traffic, fast food: The effects of time lost on food store choice46
Public housing spillovers: Evidence from South Africa45
JUE Insight: The impact of the school admission restriction policy on the housing market in Shanghai43
The effects of comprehensive pay reform on achievement in urban schools42
“Downs's Law” under the lens of theory: Roads lower congestion and increase distance traveled41
Who bears the burden of real estate transfer taxes? Evidence from the German housing market40
JUE Insight: COVID-19, race, and gender33
JUE Insight: From referrals to suspensions: New evidence on racial disparities in exclusionary discipline30
The effects of residential landlord–tenant laws: New evidence from Canadian reforms using census data30
Introduction to special issue of Journal of Urban Economics: Race, Social Justice, and Cities30
The effects of residential zoning in U.S. housing markets29
The economic impacts of the UK's eat out to help out scheme29
Editorial Board26
Editorial Board26
What explains neighborhood sorting by income and race?25
Editorial Board25
JUE Insight: COVID-19 and household preference for urban density in China23
Does Rapid Re-Housing reduce homelessness?21
Urban and spatial economics after 50 years20
Asian immigrants, school quality, and the U.S. housing market19
Editorial Board19
Bunching in real-estate markets: Regulated building heights in New York City19
The Problem Has Existed over Endless Years: Racialized Difference in Commuting, 1980–201919
Collaboration and connectivity: Historical evidence from patent records18
Tourism growth, education decline: Evidence from China’s 5A attraction expansion18
Taxi service with heterogeneous drivers and a competitive medallion market18
Editorial Board17
The geography of mortgage interest deductions17
Editorial Board17
Pushing towards shared mobility16
Congestion and incentives in the age of driverless fleets16
Cities and the sea level16
Colonial Roads and Regional Inequality16
Commuting, gender and children15
JUE Insight: Technological innovation in mortgage underwriting and the growth in credit: 1985–201515
JUE insight: Do ride-sharing services cause urban air pollution?14
Spatial inequality and housing in China14
Impact of fertility relaxation on the housing market outcomes14
Social housing and the spread of population: Evidence from twentieth century Ireland14
Black Lives Matter’s effect on police lethal use of force13
JUE Insight: Hot temperatures, aggression, and death at the hands of the police: Evidence from the U.S13
Selective migration and regional decline: Evidence from coal country13
Editorial Board12
Foundations of cities12
The effects of cash for clunkers on local air quality12
Volatility in Home Sales and Prices: Supply or Demand?12
Editorial Board11
New Evidence on Redlining by Federal Housing Programs in the 1930s11
Highways and segregation11
Politically connected cities: Italy 1951–199111
Insecure property rights and the housing market: Explaining India’s housing vacancy paradox10
JUE Insight: The Impacts of Opportunity Zones on Zone Residents10
Editorial Board10
On the economic impacts of mortgage credit expansion policies: Evidence from help to buy10
Delivery in the city: Differentiated products competition among New York restaurants9
JUE Insight: Immigrants, social transfers for education, and spatial interactions9
JUE Insight: Is hospital quality predictive of pandemic deaths? Evidence from US counties9
JUE Insight: White flight from Asian immigration: Evidence from California Public Schools9
You can’t sit with us: How locals and tourists compete for amenities in Paris9
JUE Insight: The Effect of Relaxing Local Housing Market Regulations on Federal Rental Assistance Programs9
Long-term effects of weather-induced migration on urban labor and housing markets9
The economic cost of locking down like China: Evidence from city-to-city truck flows9
JUE Insight: Powering work from home8
Editorial Board8
Making housing affordable? The local effects of relaxing land-use regulation8
JUE Insight: Desegregated but still separated? The impact of school integration on student suspensions and special education classification8
The city-wide effects of tolling downtown drivers: Evidence from London’s congestion charge8
Industrial spillovers from agricultural processing: Evidence from the beet sugar industry8
Monitoring Police with Body-Worn Cameras: Evidence from Chicago8
The structure and growth of ethnic neighborhoods8
Black-Friendly businesses in cities during the Civil Rights Era8
Will you follow your job to the suburbs?8
Old but gold: Historical pathways and path dependence8
Household mobility and the political economy and welfare effects of local tax limits8
Development approval times and new housing supply: Evidence from Los Angeles7
Does rent control increase tenant unemployment?7
JUE insight: The impact of school spending on civic engagement: Evidence from school finance reforms7
Editorial Board7
The labor market outcomes of jurisdictional consolidation: Evidence from city–county mergers in China7
Cities Without Skylines: Worldwide Building-Height Gaps and their Possible Determinants and Implications7
City characteristics, land prices and volatility7
Tastes, geography and culture6
Pandemics and cities: Evidence from the Black Death and the long-run6
Follow thy neighbor: The role of first exporters6
Unlocking neighborhood density6
The role of agents in fraudulent activities: Evidence from the housing market in Beijing6
JUE Insight: Urban flight seeded the COVID-19 pandemic across the United States6
Cities and productivity: Evidence from 16 Latin American and Caribbean countries6
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
Judge for yourself? The impact of controls on the rental market in interwar New York6
Test scores, schools, and the geography of economic opportunity6
Industrial Transfer Policy in China: Migration and development6
The long shadow of local decline: Birthplace economic adversity and long-term individual outcomes in the UK6
Income shocks and housing spillovers: Evidence from the World War I Veterans’ Bonus6
Housing market and school choice response to school quality information shocks✰6
Fracking ghost towns: How neighborhood exposure drives population decline6
JUE insight: Moving cost magnitudes in moving cost models5
Editorial Board5
Where the rubber meets the road: Pavement damage reduces traffic safety and speed5
JUE Insight: Making it home? Evidence on the long-run impact of an intensive support program for the chronically homeless on housing, employment and health5
The effect of subway policies on gasoline consumption: Subway expansion versus fare changes5
JUE insight: The role of establishment size in the city-size earnings premium5
JUE Insight: Measuring local consumption with payment cards and cell phone pings5
JUE insight: Expectations about future tax rates and firm entry5
Editorial Board5
The size and Census coverage of the U.S. homeless population5
Is ride-sharing good for environment? Evidence from combining satellite and survey data on U.S. cities4
Did cities increase skills during industrialization? Evidence from rural-urban migration4
Greasing the wheels of collaboration: Evidence from transfers of university presidents in China4
JUE insight: City size, monopsony, and the employment effects of minimum wages4
In remembrance Edwin S. Mills (1928-2021)4
Migration crisis in the local news: Evidence from the French–Italian border4
Working from home increases work–home distances4
The effect of low-skilled immigration on local productivity and amenities: Learning from the South Korean experience4
The impact of return migration on employment and wages in Mexican cities4
Measuring the Value of Urban Consumption Amenities: A Time-Use Approach4
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 shocks3
The air quality effects of Uber3
Identifying the general equilibrium effects of narcotics enforcement3
Does the US have an infrastructure cost problem? Evidence from the interstate highway system3
Second-hand gentrification: Theory and evidence from high-speed rail extensions3
Government Contracting, Labor Intensity, and the Local Effects of Fiscal Consolidation: Evidence from the Budget Control Act of 20113
Long-distance water infrastructure, rural development and urban growth: Evidence from China3
Reducing the burden of mental illness on the criminal justice system: Evidence from light-touch outreach3
The marginal cost of mortality risk reduction: Evidence from housing markets3
JUE Insight: Zoning and property taxation revisited—Was Hamilton right?3
Editorial Board3
Does urbanization cause crime? Evidence from rural–urban migration in South Africa3
First time around: Local conditions and multi-dimensional integration of refugees3
Housing market congestion: The effects of new for-sale supply on home prices and sale hazards3
Sticky places: The effect of college on where you live3
Mortgage innovation and house price booms3
JUE Insight: Difference-in-differences with geocoded microdata3
The Effect of Racial Composition on Neighborhood Housing Prices: Evidence from Hurricane Katrina-Induced Migration3
JUE Insight: Condominium development does not lead to gentrification3
Journal of Urban Economics, 1991–20073
Local GDP estimates around the world3
Flattening governments, flattening growth: Equalization–efficiency trade-off in jurisdictional reform3
JUE Insight: What is the impact of opportunity zones on job postings?3
The effect of tax increment financing districts on job creation in Chicago3
Nobody’s gonna slow me down? The effects of a transportation cost shock on firm performance and behavior3
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