OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Urban Economics is 11. 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
The Cost of Traffic: Evidence from the London Congestion Charge	32
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
JUE Insight: Were urban cowboys enough to control COVID-19? Local shelter-in-place orders and coronavirus case growth	30
Information value of property description: A Machine learning approach	30
Urban growth shadows	30
Do political connections help or hinder urban economic growth? Evidence from 1,400 industrial parks in China	29
The impact of public employment: Evidence from Bonn	27
Take the Q train: Value capture of public infrastructure projects	27

National transportation networks, market access, and regional economic growth	26
Geographical proximity to refugee reception centres and voting	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
The COVID-19 pandemic and unemployment: Evidence from mobile phone data from China	17
Citywide parking policy and traffic: Evidence from Amsterdam	17
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
Local public finance dynamics and hurricane shocks	16
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
Too slow for the urban march: Litigations and the real estate market in Mumbai, India	15
The dynamics of industry agglomeration: Evidence from 44 years of coagglomeration patterns	15
Attenuation of agglomeration economies: Evidence from the universe of Chinese manufacturing firms	14
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
Gender differences in job flexibility: Commutes and working hours after job loss	13
JUE Insight: The Impacts of Opportunity Zones on Zone Residents	13
The local labour market effects of light rail transit	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