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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
JUE 2007–2023: Rising impact	135
Who bears the burden of real estate transfer taxes? Evidence from the German housing market	120
Rushing to opportunity: City growth and entrepreneurship	89
Special Issue of JUE Insight Papers: Introduction	79
Landlords and access to opportunity	78
JUE Insight: Were urban cowboys enough to control COVID-19? Local shelter-in-place orders and coronavirus case growth	68
“Downs's Law” under the lens of theory: Roads lower congestion and increase distance traveled	60
JUE Insight: The impact of the school admission restriction policy on the housing market in Shanghai	50
The impact of road rationing on housing demand and sorting	46
Not in my neighbour’s back yard? Laneway homes and neighbours’ property values	45
Slow traffic, fast food: The effects of time lost on food store choice	44
Public housing spillovers: Evidence from South Africa	40
The effects of residential zoning in U.S. housing markets	39
A new way of evaluating the optimality of a transportation improvement in a class of urban land use models	38
The Spread and Consequences of COVID-19 for Cities: An Introduction	37
Introduction to special issue of Journal of Urban Economics: Race, Social Justice, and Cities	35
The economic impacts of the UK's eat out to help out scheme	35
JUE Insight: From referrals to suspensions: New evidence on racial disparities in exclusionary discipline	31
The effects of residential landlord–tenant laws: New evidence from Canadian reforms using census data	30
Equilibrium sorting and moral hazard in residential energy contracts	30
JUE Insight: The Geography of Travel Behavior in the Early Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic	30
JUE Insight: COVID-19, race, and gender	30
Strategic behavior under tradeable driving permits and congestion tolls: A political economy model	28
Editorial Board	28
Editorial Board	28

The return to big-city experience: Evidence from refugees in Denmark	27
JUE Insight: COVID-19 and household preference for urban density in China	26
What explains neighborhood sorting by income and race?	26
Urban and spatial economics after 50 years	26
Attenuation of agglomeration economies: Evidence from the universe of Chinese manufacturing firms	25
Editorial Board	25
Taxi service with heterogeneous drivers and a competitive medallion market	25
Tourism growth, education decline: Evidence from China’s 5A attraction expansion	24
Collaboration and connectivity: Historical evidence from patent records	24
Bunching in real-estate markets: Regulated building heights in New York City	23
Citywide parking policy and traffic: Evidence from Amsterdam	22
JUE insight: Demand for transportation and spatial pattern of economic activity during the pandemic	21
The Problem Has Existed over Endless Years: Racialized Difference in Commuting, 1980–2019	21
Editorial Board	20
Editorial Board	20
JUE Insight: Measuring movement and social contact with smartphone data: a real-time application to COVID-19	20
Congestion and incentives in the age of driverless fleets	19
Cities and the sea level	19
The geography of mortgage interest deductions	17
Minimum wage increases and eviction risk	15
Commuting, gender and children	14
Pushing towards shared mobility	14
Colonial Roads and Regional Inequality	14
Spatial inequality and housing in China	13
JUE insight: Do ride-sharing services cause urban air pollution?	13
JUE Insight: Hot temperatures, aggression, and death at the hands of the police: Evidence from the U.S	13
Editorial Board	12
Volatility in Home Sales and Prices: Supply or Demand?	12
Editorial Board	12
Impact of fertility relaxation on the housing market outcomes	12
Black Lives Matter’s effect on police lethal use of force	12
Social housing and the spread of population: Evidence from twentieth century Ireland	12
Foundations of cities	12
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	11
The effects of cash for clunkers on local air quality	11
Politically connected cities: Italy 1951–1991	11
Editorial Board	11
New Evidence on Redlining by Federal Housing Programs in the 1930s	11
Valuing externalities of outdoor advertising in an urban setting – the case of Warsaw	11
Editorial Board	11
The economics of skyscrapers: A synthesis	10
On the economic impacts of mortgage credit expansion policies: Evidence from help to buy	10
JUE Insight: Is hospital quality predictive of pandemic deaths? Evidence from US counties	10
Gender differences in job flexibility: Commutes and working hours after job loss	10
Editorial Board	10
JUE Insight: The Effect of Relaxing Local Housing Market Regulations on Federal Rental Assistance Programs	10
JUE Insight: The Impacts of Opportunity Zones on Zone Residents	10
The economic cost of locking down like China: Evidence from city-to-city truck flows	9

Long-term effects of weather-induced migration on urban labor and housing markets	9
Delivery in the city: Differentiated products competition among New York restaurants	9
JUE Insight: Immigrants, social transfers for education, and spatial interactions	9
Making housing affordable? The local effects of relaxing land-use regulation	9
You can’t sit with us: How locals and tourists compete for amenities in Paris	9
The city-wide effects of tolling downtown drivers: Evidence from London’s congestion charge	8
Do people accept different cultures?	8
JUE Insight: White flight from Asian immigration: Evidence from California Public Schools	8
Will you follow your job to the suburbs?	7
JUE insight: Migration, transportation infrastructure, and the spatial transmission of COVID-19 in China	7
Monitoring Police with Body-Worn Cameras: Evidence from Chicago	7
Black-Friendly businesses in cities during the Civil Rights Era	7
Editorial Board	7
The structure and growth of ethnic neighborhoods	7
The labor market outcomes of jurisdictional consolidation: Evidence from city–county mergers in China	7
JUE Insight: Powering work from home	7
Household mobility and the political economy and welfare effects of local tax limits	7
JUE Insight: Desegregated but still separated? The impact of school integration on student suspensions and special education classification	7
JUE Insight: The geographic spread of COVID-19 correlates with the structure of social networks as measured by Facebook	7
City characteristics, land prices and volatility	6
Housing market and school choice response to school quality information shocks✰	6
Cities Without Skylines: Worldwide Building-Height Gaps and their Possible Determinants and Implications	6
The long shadow of local decline: Birthplace economic adversity and long-term individual outcomes in the UK	6
Cities and productivity: Evidence from 16 Latin American and Caribbean countries	6
Does rent control increase tenant unemployment?	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
Pandemics and cities: Evidence from the Black Death and the long-run	6
JUE insight: The impact of school spending on civic engagement: Evidence from school finance reforms	6
JUE Insight: Distributional Impacts of Retail Vaccine Availability	6
Follow thy neighbor: The role of first exporters	5
Decomposing the employment effects of investment subsidies	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
Tastes, geography and culture	5
Income shocks and housing spillovers: Evidence from the World War I Veterans’ Bonus	5
House prices, housing wealth and financial well-being	5
Test scores, schools, and the geography of economic opportunity	5
Editorial Board	5
JUE insight: Learning epidemiology by doing: The empirical implications of a Spatial-SIR model with behavioral responses	5
Editorial Board	5
Who lives where in the city? Amenities, commuting and income sorting	5
JUE Insight: Urban flight seeded the COVID-19 pandemic across the United States	5
Unlocking neighborhood density	5
Take the Q train: Value capture of public infrastructure projects	5
The effect of subway policies on gasoline consumption: Subway expansion versus fare changes	5
Did cities increase skills during industrialization? Evidence from rural-urban migration	5
Migration crisis in the local news: Evidence from the French–Italian border	4
The impact of return migration on employment and wages in Mexican cities	4
Measuring the Value of Urban Consumption Amenities: A Time-Use Approach	4
Should cities disband their police departments?	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
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
Editorial Board	4
JUE Insight: Measuring local consumption with payment cards and cell phone pings	4
Life in the slow lane: Unintended consequences of public transit in Jakarta	4
The effect of low-skilled immigration on local productivity and amenities: Learning from the South Korean experience	4
Merchant networks in big cities	4
Editorial Board	4
JUE insight: The role of establishment size in the city-size earnings premium	4