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 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
The economic impacts of the UK's eat out to help out scheme	35
Introduction to special issue of Journal of Urban Economics: Race, Social Justice, and Cities	35
JUE Insight: From referrals to suspensions: New evidence on racial disparities in exclusionary discipline	31
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
The effects of residential landlord–tenant laws: New evidence from Canadian reforms using census data	30
Editorial Board	28
Editorial Board	28
Strategic behavior under tradeable driving permits and congestion tolls: A political economy model	28

The return to big-city experience: Evidence from refugees in Denmark	27
What explains neighborhood sorting by income and race?	26
Urban and spatial economics after 50 years	26
JUE Insight: COVID-19 and household preference for urban density in China	26
Editorial Board	25
Taxi service with heterogeneous drivers and a competitive medallion market	25
Attenuation of agglomeration economies: Evidence from the universe of Chinese manufacturing firms	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
The Problem Has Existed over Endless Years: Racialized Difference in Commuting, 1980–2019	21
JUE insight: Demand for transportation and spatial pattern of economic activity during the pandemic	21
JUE Insight: Measuring movement and social contact with smartphone data: a real-time application to COVID-19	20
Editorial Board	20
Editorial Board	20
Cities and the sea level	19
Congestion and incentives in the age of driverless fleets	19
The geography of mortgage interest deductions	17
Minimum wage increases and eviction risk	15
Pushing towards shared mobility	14
Colonial Roads and Regional Inequality	14
Commuting, gender and children	14
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
Spatial inequality and housing in China	13
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
Editorial Board	12
Volatility in Home Sales and Prices: Supply or Demand?	12
Editorial Board	12
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
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