OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Urban Economics is 10. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The effect of natural disasters on economic activity in US counties: A century of data	117
Do short-term rental platforms affect housing markets? Evidence from Airbnb in Barcelona	100
Applying the Degree of Urbanisation to the globe: A new harmonised definition reveals a different picture of global urbanisation	99
Urban revival in America	80
JUE Insight: How do cities change when we work from home?	73
JUE Insight: How much does COVID-19 increase with mobility? Evidence from New York and four other U.S. cities	72
Housing markets in a pandemic: Evidence from historical outbreaks	68
JUE insight: Are city centers losing their appeal? Commercial real estate, urban spatial structure, and COVID-19	64
Social connectedness in urban areas	61
JUE Insight: The determinants of the differential exposure to COVID-19 in New York city and their evolution over time	56
JUE Insight: Understanding spatial variation in COVID-19 across the United States	54
Metropolitan areas in the world. Delineation and population trends	51
JUE Insight: The geographic spread of COVID-19 correlates with the structure of social networks as measured by Facebook	47
Short-term rentals and the housing market: Quasi-experimental evidence from Airbnb in Los Angeles	47
JUE Insight: College student travel contributed to local COVID-19 spread	41
Accounting for central neighborhood change, 1980–2010	40
Cities, lights, and skills in developing economies	33
Building(s and) cities: Delineating urban areas with a machine learning algorithm	33
The local residential land use regulatory environment across U.S. housing markets: Evidence from a new Wharton index	32
Measuring urban economic density	32
The capitalization of energy efficiency: Evidence from the housing market	28
JUE Insight: Were urban cowboys enough to control COVID-19? Local shelter-in-place orders and coronavirus case growth	27
Information value of property description: A Machine learning approach	27
The Cost of Traffic: Evidence from the London Congestion Charge	26
The congestion costs of Uber and Lyft	25

Urban growth shadows	25
Measuring the size and growth of cities using nighttime light	25
The impact of public employment: Evidence from Bonn	23
Immigration enforcement awareness and community engagement with police: Evidence from domestic violence calls in Los Angeles	23
Do political connections help or hinder urban economic growth? Evidence from 1,400 industrial parks in China	23
Do urban wage premia reflect lower amenities? Evidence from Africa	22
JUE Insight: Measuring movement and social contact with smartphone data: a real-time application to COVID-19	22
Geographical proximity to refugee reception centres and voting	21
National transportation networks, market access, and regional economic growth	21
Detecting urban markets with satellite imagery: An application to India	20
Definition matters. Metropolitan areas and agglomeration economies in a large-developing country	20
Cities and the structure of social interactions: Evidence from mobile phone data	20
JUE Insight: The Geography of Travel Behavior in the Early Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic	20
Take the Q train: Value capture of public infrastructure projects	19
Delineating urban areas using building density	18
Who lives where in the city? Amenities, commuting and income sorting	16
JUE Insight: The effect of new market-rate housing construction on the low-income housing market	16
Commuting and innovation: Are closer inventors more productive?	15
Violence, development, and migration waves: Evidence from Central American child migrant apprehensions	15
Calling from the outside: The role of networks in residential mobility	15
JUE Insight: From referrals to suspensions: New evidence on racial disparities in exclusionary discipline	15
The economics of skyscrapers: A synthesis	14
Echoes of rising tuition in students’ borrowing, educational attainment, and homeownership in post-recession America	14
Classifying locations and delineating space: An introduction	14
New Evidence on Redlining by Federal Housing Programs in the 1930s	13
The effect of LTV-based risk weights on house prices: Evidence from an Israeli macroprudential policy	13
JUE insight: Learning epidemiology by doing: The empirical implications of a Spatial-SIR model with behavioral responses	12
Effects of COVID‐19 shutdowns on domestic violence in US cities	12
Slum growth in Brazilian cities	12
The local labour market effects of light rail transit	12
Citywide parking policy and traffic: Evidence from Amsterdam	12
Why is the rent so darn high? The role of growing demand to live in housing-supply-inelastic cities	12
Housing supply and affordability: Evidence from rents, housing consumption and household location	12
Household mortgage refinancing decisions are neighbor influenced, especially along racial lines	12
Railways, divergence, and structural change in 19th century England and Wales	12
Appointed public officials and local favoritism: Evidence from the German states	12
The COVID-19 pandemic and unemployment: Evidence from mobile phone data from China	12
Identifying urban areas by combining human judgment and machine learning: An application to India	11
Local access to mental healthcare and crime	11
The impact of local residential land use restrictions on land values across and within single family housing markets	11
On the economic impacts of constraining second home investments	11
Enabled to work: The impact of government housing on slum dwellers in South Africa	10
Uber and traffic safety: Evidence from Brazilian cities	10
JUE Insight: COVID-19 and household preference for urban density in China	10
Police safety, killings by the police, and the militarization of US law enforcement	10
Market tremors: Shale gas exploration, earthquakes, and their impact on house prices	10