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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Applying the Degree of Urbanisation to the globe: A new harmonised definition reveals a different picture of global urbanisation	126
JUE Insight: How do cities change when we work from home?	85
JUE Insight: How much does COVID-19 increase with mobility? Evidence from New York and four other U.S. cities	81
JUE insight: Are city centers losing their appeal? Commercial real estate, urban spatial structure, and COVID-19	79
Housing markets in a pandemic: Evidence from historical outbreaks	71
Metropolitan areas in the world. Delineation and population trends	70
JUE Insight: Understanding spatial variation in COVID-19 across the United States	61
JUE Insight: The determinants of the differential exposure to COVID-19 in New York city and their evolution over time	59
Short-term rentals and the housing market: Quasi-experimental evidence from Airbnb in Los Angeles	57
JUE Insight: The geographic spread of COVID-19 correlates with the structure of social networks as measured by Facebook	51
The local residential land use regulatory environment across U.S. housing markets: Evidence from a new Wharton index	49
Measuring urban economic density	48
JUE Insight: College student travel contributed to local COVID-19 spread	43
Building(s and) cities: Delineating urban areas with a machine learning algorithm	42
Cities, lights, and skills in developing economies	39
The congestion costs of Uber and Lyft	33
Measuring the size and growth of cities using nighttime light	32
JUE Insight: Measuring movement and social contact with smartphone data: a real-time application to COVID-19	32
The Cost of Traffic: Evidence from the London Congestion Charge	32
Information value of property description: A Machine learning approach	30
Urban growth shadows	30
JUE Insight: Were urban cowboys enough to control COVID-19? Local shelter-in-place orders and coronavirus case growth	30
Do political connections help or hinder urban economic growth? Evidence from 1,400 industrial parks in China	29
Take the Q train: Value capture of public infrastructure projects	27
The impact of public employment: Evidence from Bonn	27

Geographical proximity to refugee reception centres and voting	26
National transportation networks, market access, and regional economic growth	26
The economics of skyscrapers: A synthesis	25
Do urban wage premia reflect lower amenities? Evidence from Africa	24
Detecting urban markets with satellite imagery: An application to India	23
JUE Insight: The Geography of Travel Behavior in the Early Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic	22
Definition matters. Metropolitan areas and agglomeration economies in a large-developing country	22
Classifying locations and delineating space: An introduction	20
Who lives where in the city? Amenities, commuting and income sorting	20
Delineating urban areas using building density	20
Violence, development, and migration waves: Evidence from Central American child migrant apprehensions	19
Commuting and innovation: Are closer inventors more productive?	19
Railways, divergence, and structural change in 19th century England and Wales	18
JUE Insight: The effect of new market-rate housing construction on the low-income housing market	18
Appointed public officials and local favoritism: Evidence from the German states	17
Echoes of rising tuition in students’ borrowing, educational attainment, and homeownership in post-recession America	17
Effects of COVID‐19 shutdowns on domestic violence in US cities	17
JUE Insight: From referrals to suspensions: New evidence on racial disparities in exclusionary discipline	17
Local access to mental healthcare and crime	17
New Evidence on Redlining by Federal Housing Programs in the 1930s	17
The COVID-19 pandemic and unemployment: Evidence from mobile phone data from China	17
Citywide parking policy and traffic: Evidence from Amsterdam	17
Housing supply and affordability: Evidence from rents, housing consumption and household location	16
Household mortgage refinancing decisions are neighbor influenced, especially along racial lines	16
Slum growth in Brazilian cities	16
Local public finance dynamics and hurricane shocks	16
The dynamics of industry agglomeration: Evidence from 44 years of coagglomeration patterns	15
Too slow for the urban march: Litigations and the real estate market in Mumbai, India	15
The impact of local residential land use restrictions on land values across and within single family housing markets	14
The effect of LTV-based risk weights on house prices: Evidence from an Israeli macroprudential policy	14
Why is the rent so darn high? The role of growing demand to live in housing-supply-inelastic cities	14
Attenuation of agglomeration economies: Evidence from the universe of Chinese manufacturing firms	14
JUE Insight: The Impacts of Opportunity Zones on Zone Residents	13
The local labour market effects of light rail transit	13
Gender differences in job flexibility: Commutes and working hours after job loss	13
JUE insight: Learning epidemiology by doing: The empirical implications of a Spatial-SIR model with behavioral responses	12
Uber and traffic safety: Evidence from Brazilian cities	12
JUE Insight: Urban flight seeded the COVID-19 pandemic across the United States	12
Police safety, killings by the police, and the militarization of US law enforcement	12
Identifying urban areas by combining human judgment and machine learning: An application to India	12
The impact of upzoning on housing construction in Auckland	11
First time around: Local conditions and multi-dimensional integration of refugees	11
City size, pollution and emission policies	11
The local economic impacts of regeneration projects: Evidence from UK's single regeneration budget	11
Market tremors: Shale gas exploration, earthquakes, and their impact on house prices	11
The long-term impact of the resettlement of the Sudetenland on residential migration	11
JUE Insight: COVID-19 and household preference for urban density in China	11
JUE insights: Does mobility explain why slums were hit harder by COVID-19 in Mumbai, India?	10
Water purification efforts and the black‐white infant mortality gap, 1906–1938	10
Age-based property tax exemptions	10

The return to big-city experience: Evidence from refugees in Denmark	10
JUE Insight: City-wide effects of new housing supply: Evidence from moving chains	10
JUE Insight: Difference-in-differences with geocoded microdata	9
Landlords and access to opportunity	9
How bad is crime for business? Evidence from consumer behavior	9
The local impact of containerization	9
Rail accidents and property values in the era of unconventional energy production	9
Revisiting the effects of housing transfer taxes	8
Cities Without Skylines: Worldwide Building-Height Gaps and their Possible Determinants and Implications	8
Life in the slow lane: Unintended consequences of public transit in Jakarta	8
Cities and tasks	8
Trade and the spatial distribution of transport infrastructure	8
In the eye of the storm: Firms and capital destruction in India	8
Preferences of public transit commuters: Evidence from smart card data in Singapore	8
House prices, housing wealth and financial well-being	8
What explains neighborhood sorting by income and race?	7
The amplifying effect of capitalization rates on housing supply	7
JUE insight: Migration, transportation infrastructure, and the spatial transmission of COVID-19 in China	7
The effect of immigration enforcement on crime reporting: Evidence from Dallas	7
Insecure property rights and the housing market: Explaining India’s housing vacancy paradox	7
The internal spatial organization of firms: Evidence from Denmark	7
Rent Control, Market Segmentation, and Misallocation: Causal Evidence from a Large-Scale Policy Intervention	7
Strategic behavior under tradeable driving permits and congestion tolls: A political economy model	7
JUE Insight: The (non-)effect of opportunity zones on housing prices	7
JUE insight: Demand for transportation and spatial pattern of economic activity during the pandemic	6
Austerity, welfare cuts and hate crime: Evidence from the UK's age of austerity	6
Child access prevention laws and juvenile firearm-related homicides	6
Foreclosure externalities and Vacant Property Registration Ordinances	6
The price and allocation effects of targeted mandates: Evidence from lead hazards	6
Migrating natives and foreign immigration: Is there a preference for ethnic residential homogeneity?	6
Not in my neighbour’s back yard? Laneway homes and neighbours’ property values	6
Aspiration adaptation in resource-constrained environments	5
Valuing externalities of outdoor advertising in an urban setting – the case of Warsaw	5
JUE Insight: Desegregated but still separated? The impact of school integration on student suspensions and special education classification	5
The effect of tax increment financing districts on job creation in Chicago	5
The Effect of Racial Composition on Neighborhood Housing Prices: Evidence from Hurricane Katrina-Induced Migration	5
Local economic impacts of legislative malapportionment	5
On quantitative spatial economic models	5
The Spread and Consequences of COVID-19 for Cities: An Introduction	5
Mobility responses to the establishment of a residential tax haven: Evidence from Switzerland	4
Tax decentralization notwithstanding regional disparities	4
Optimal minimum wage setting in a federal system	4
Crime risk and housing values: Evidence from the gun offender registry	4
Minimum wage increases and eviction risk	4
JUE Insight: Is hospital quality predictive of pandemic deaths? Evidence from US counties	4
JUE Insight: Distributional Impacts of Retail Vaccine Availability	4
Cities and productivity: Evidence from 16 Latin American and Caribbean countries	4
JUE Insight: Firms and industry agglomeration	4
Merchant networks in big cities	4
Decomposing the employment effects of investment subsidies	4
JUE Insight: The geography of pandemic containment	4
The impact of return migration on employment and wages in Mexican cities	4
JUE Insight: Powering work from home	3
Did DACA Harm US-Born Workers? Temporary Work Visas and Labor Market Competition	3
E-commerce and local labor markets: Is the “Retail Apocalypse” near?	3
Cities on pre-Columbian paths	3
Can social media rhetoric incite hate incidents? Evidence from Trump's “Chinese Virus” tweets	3
On the economic impacts of mortgage credit expansion policies: Evidence from help to buy	3
Highways and segregation	3
Black Lives Matter’s effect on police lethal use of force	3
Colonial Roads and Regional Inequality	3
The Problem Has Existed over Endless Years: Racialized Difference in Commuting, 1980–2019	3
JUE Insight: Measuring the Stringency of Land Use Regulation Using a Shadow Price Approach	3
Reducing racial disparities in crime victimization: Evidence from employment discrimination litigation	3
Access to ports and the welfare gains from domestic transportation infrastructure	3
A beam of light: Media, tourism and economic development	3
The geography of mortgage interest deductions	3
How do subnational governments react to shocks to different revenue sources? Evidence from hydrocarbon-producing provinces in Argentina	3
JUE Insight: White flight from Asian immigration: Evidence from California Public Schools	3
The value of climate amenities: A comparison of hedonic and discrete choice approaches	3
Nobody’s gonna slow me down? The effects of a transportation cost shock on firm performance and behavior	3
The long shadow of local decline: Birthplace economic adversity and long-term individual outcomes in the UK	3