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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
JUE Insight: The impact of the school admission restriction policy on the housing market in Shanghai	161
“Downs's Law” under the lens of theory: Roads lower congestion and increase distance traveled	111
Special Issue of JUE Insight Papers: Introduction	99
Public housing spillovers: Evidence from South Africa	89
Who bears the burden of real estate transfer taxes? Evidence from the German housing market	88
JUE 2007–2023: Rising impact	80
Landlords and access to opportunity	78
Not in my neighbour’s back yard? Laneway homes and neighbours’ property values	78
JUE Insight: Were urban cowboys enough to control COVID-19? Local shelter-in-place orders and coronavirus case growth	69
The impact of road rationing on housing demand and sorting	67
Slow traffic, fast food: The effects of time lost on food store choice	65
The internal spatial organization of firms: Evidence from Denmark	64
The Spread and Consequences of COVID-19 for Cities: An Introduction	49
Introduction to special issue of Journal of Urban Economics: Race, Social Justice, and Cities	47
Equilibrium sorting and moral hazard in residential energy contracts	45
JUE Insight: From referrals to suspensions: New evidence on racial disparities in exclusionary discipline	41
The effects of residential landlord–tenant laws: New evidence from Canadian reforms using census data	41
JUE Insight: The Geography of Travel Behavior in the Early Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic	39
JUE Insight: COVID-19, race, and gender	38
A new way of evaluating the optimality of a transportation improvement in a class of urban land use models	34
The economic impacts of the UK's eat out to help out scheme	33
Applying the Degree of Urbanisation to the globe: A new harmonised definition reveals a different picture of global urbanisation	32
The return to big-city experience: Evidence from refugees in Denmark	31
Editorial Board	31
Too slow for the urban march: Litigations and the real estate market in Mumbai, India	29

Strategic behavior under tradeable driving permits and congestion tolls: A political economy model	29
Editorial Board	26
Urban and spatial economics after 50 years	26
Editorial Board	26
JUE Insight: COVID-19 and household preference for urban density in China	25
Attenuation of agglomeration economies: Evidence from the universe of Chinese manufacturing firms	25
The effect of LTV-based risk weights on house prices: Evidence from an Israeli macroprudential policy	24
The Problem Has Existed over Endless Years: Racialized Difference in Commuting, 1980–2019	24
What explains neighborhood sorting by income and race?	24
Editorial Board	24
Taxi service with heterogeneous drivers and a competitive medallion market	23
Collaboration and connectivity: Historical evidence from patent records	23
Bunching in real-estate markets: Regulated building heights in New York City	23
Citywide parking policy and traffic: Evidence from Amsterdam	21
JUE Insight: Measuring movement and social contact with smartphone data: a real-time application to COVID-19	21
JUE insight: Demand for transportation and spatial pattern of economic activity during the pandemic	21
Congestion and incentives in the age of driverless fleets	20
Colonial Roads and Regional Inequality	20
Editorial Board	19
Spatial inequality and housing in China	19
Editorial Board	19
Pushing towards shared mobility	19
Minimum wage increases and eviction risk	19
Commuting, gender and children	17
The geography of mortgage interest deductions	17
Volatility in Home Sales and Prices: Supply or Demand?	17
Cities and the sea level	17
Editorial Board	16
Foundations of cities	16
Editorial Board	16
JUE Insight: Hot temperatures, aggression, and death at the hands of the police: Evidence from the U.S	16
Social housing and the spread of population: Evidence from twentieth century Ireland	16
Black Lives Matter’s effect on police lethal use of force	15
Definition matters. Metropolitan areas and agglomeration economies in a large-developing country	15
Editorial Board	14
The effects of cash for clunkers on local air quality	14
Editorial Board	14
Highways and segregation	13
Politically connected cities: Italy 1951–1991	13
Appointed public officials and local favoritism: Evidence from the German states	12
Valuing externalities of outdoor advertising in an urban setting – the case of Warsaw	12
JUE insight: Are city centers losing their appeal? Commercial real estate, urban spatial structure, and COVID-19	12
New Evidence on Redlining by Federal Housing Programs in the 1930s	12
On the economic impacts of mortgage credit expansion policies: Evidence from help to buy	11
Editorial Board	11
Editorial Board	11
Access to ports and the welfare gains from domestic transportation infrastructure	11
Optimal minimum wage setting in a federal system	11
Insecure property rights and the housing market: Explaining India’s housing vacancy paradox	11
JUE Insight: The Impacts of Opportunity Zones on Zone Residents	10

Gender differences in job flexibility: Commutes and working hours after job loss	10
JUE Insight: Is hospital quality predictive of pandemic deaths? Evidence from US counties	9
JUE Insight: The Effect of Relaxing Local Housing Market Regulations on Federal Rental Assistance Programs	9
The economics of skyscrapers: A synthesis	9
Making housing affordable? The local effects of relaxing land-use regulation	9
Editorial Board	9
Delivery in the city: Differentiated products competition among New York restaurants	8
The economic cost of locking down like China: Evidence from city-to-city truck flows	8
Violence, development, and migration waves: Evidence from Central American child migrant apprehensions	8
Long-term effects of weather-induced migration on urban labor and housing markets	8
JUE Insight: White flight from Asian immigration: Evidence from California Public Schools	8
JUE Insight: Immigrants, social transfers for education, and spatial interactions	8
JUE Insight: Powering work from home	7
Black-Friendly businesses in cities during the Civil Rights Era	7
Monitoring Police with Body-Worn Cameras: Evidence from Chicago	7
Household mobility and the political economy and welfare effects of local tax limits	7
The structure and growth of ethnic neighborhoods	7
The price and allocation effects of targeted mandates: Evidence from lead hazards	7
JUE Insight: The geographic spread of COVID-19 correlates with the structure of social networks as measured by Facebook	7
The city-wide effects of tolling downtown drivers: Evidence from London’s congestion charge	7
JUE insight: Migration, transportation infrastructure, and the spatial transmission of COVID-19 in China	7
Do people accept different cultures?	7
Editorial Board	7
JUE Insight: Desegregated but still separated? The impact of school integration on student suspensions and special education classification	7
City characteristics, land prices and volatility	6
Cities and productivity: Evidence from 16 Latin American and Caribbean countries	6
Pandemics and cities: Evidence from the Black Death and the long-run	6
Cities Without Skylines: Worldwide Building-Height Gaps and their Possible Determinants and Implications	6
Housing market and school choice response to school quality information shocks✰	6
JUE insight: The impact of school spending on civic engagement: Evidence from school finance reforms	6
Delineating urban areas using building density	6
Front Matter 1 - Full Title Page (regular issues)/Special Issue Title page (special issues)	6
The long shadow of local decline: Birthplace economic adversity and long-term individual outcomes in the UK	6
On quantitative spatial economic models	6
Income shocks and housing spillovers: Evidence from the World War I Veterans’ Bonus	5
JUE Insight: Urban flight seeded the COVID-19 pandemic across the United States	5
Test scores, schools, and the geography of economic opportunity	5
JUE Insight: Distributional Impacts of Retail Vaccine Availability	5
Identifying urban areas by combining human judgment and machine learning: An application to India	5
Decomposing the employment effects of investment subsidies	5
Editorial Board	5
The amplifying effect of capitalization rates on housing supply	5
House prices, housing wealth and financial well-being	5
Who lives where in the city? Amenities, commuting and income sorting	5
Life in the slow lane: Unintended consequences of public transit in Jakarta	4
The role of agents in fraudulent activities: Evidence from the housing market in Beijing	4
Detecting urban markets with satellite imagery: An application to India	4
Cities and tasks	4
Should cities disband their police departments?	4
Editorial Board	4
Unlocking neighborhood density	4
Classifying locations and delineating space: An introduction	4
JUE insight: Expectations about future tax rates and firm entry	4
Merchant networks in big cities	4
JUE insight: Learning epidemiology by doing: The empirical implications of a Spatial-SIR model with behavioral responses	4
Editorial Board	4
Take the Q train: Value capture of public infrastructure projects	4
Editorial Board	3
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	3
Foreclosure externalities and Vacant Property Registration Ordinances	3
Measuring urban economic density	3
Measuring the Value of Urban Consumption Amenities: A Time-Use Approach	3
The size and Census coverage of the U.S. homeless population	3
The local labour market effects of light rail transit	3
The impact of return migration on employment and wages in Mexican cities	3
Measuring the size and growth of cities using nighttime light	3
Editorial Board	3
JUE insight: The role of establishment size in the city-size earnings premium	3
The effect of low-skilled immigration on local productivity and amenities: Learning from the South Korean experience	3
Short-term rentals and the housing market: Quasi-experimental evidence from Airbnb in Los Angeles	3
Editorial Board	3