Journal of Urban Economics

1974 - 2025

Current editor(s): S.S. Rosenthal and W.C. Strange

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Volume 149, issue C, 2025

A better delineation of U.S. metropolitan areas

Jordan Rappaport and McKenzie Humann

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]

Sumit Agarwal, Weida Kuang, Long Wang and Yang Yang

Rushing to opportunity: City growth and entrepreneurship

Kristian Behrens and Nathan Seegert

The effects of residential zoning in U.S. housing markets

Jaehee Song

The effects of macroprudential policy restricting housing investor credit supply

Christian Gillitzer and Nalini Prasad

Where the rubber meets the road: Pavement damage reduces traffic safety and speed

Margaret Bock, Alexander Cardazzi and Brad R. Humphreys

Does urbanization cause crime? Evidence from rural–urban migration in South Africa

Nelly Exbrayat and Victor Stephane

The labor market outcomes of jurisdictional consolidation: Evidence from city–county mergers in China

Shiyu Bo and Yi Wang

Colonial legacy and land market formality

Mariaflavia Harari and Maisy Wong

Does rent control increase tenant unemployment?

Hanchen Jiang, Luis Quintero and Xi Yang

JUE Insights: Who bears climate-related physical risk?

David Wylie, Natee Amornsiripanitch, John Heilbron and Kevin Zhao

Strategies and consequences of local fiscal consolidation: Evidence from Germany

Melinda Fremerey, Andreas Lichter and Max Löffler

Housing booms and shirking

Quanlin Gu, Jia He, Wenlan Qian and Yuan Ren

Firms for funding: The effect of Million Dollar Plants on school finances and student achievement

Rahul R. Gupta and Viviana Rodriguez

The effect of subway policies on gasoline consumption: Subway expansion versus fare changes

Antung A. Liu, Yucheng Wang and Lei Zhang

Export slowdown and increasing land supply: Local government’s responses to export shocks in China

Qiuyi Wang, Jing Wu and Shuping Wu

JUE insight: Political geography and the spatial allocation of economic activity: Evidence from China’s anti-corruption campaign

Filipe Campante, Rui Du, Weizeng Sun, Jianghao Wang and Siqi Zheng

JUE Insight: Measuring local consumption with payment cards and cell phone pings

Ben Klopack and Fernando Luco

JUE insight: Do ride-sharing services cause urban air pollution?

Yi Liu, Yao Li and Jindong Pang

Volume 148, issue C, 2025

Did cities increase skills during industrialization? Evidence from rural-urban migration

Jonatan Andersson and Jakob Molinder

You can’t sit with us: How locals and tourists compete for amenities in Paris

Vladimir Avetian and Stefan Pauly

Volume 147, issue C, 2025

Tax policy and the heterogeneous costs of homeownership

Kelly C. Bishop, Jakob Dowling, Nicolai V. Kuminoff and Alvin D. Murphy

The effect of water filtration on cholera mortality

Daniel Knutsson

Why do right to carry laws increase violence? Effects on gun theft and clearance rates

John Donohue, Samuel V. Cai, Matthew V. Bondy and Philip J. Cook

Tenant rights, eviction, and rent affordability

N. Edward Coulson, Thao Le, Victor Ortego-Marti and Lily Shen

When does crime respond to punishment?: Evidence from drug-free school zones

Robert Gonzalez, Ranae Jabri and Sarah Komisarow

Volume 146, issue C, 2025

Reducing the burden of mental illness on the criminal justice system: Evidence from light-touch outreach

Mary Kate Batistich, William N. Evans and David Phillips

Roads, internal migration and the spatial sorting of U.S. high-skill workers

Florin Cucu

Long-distance water infrastructure, rural development and urban growth: Evidence from China

Xiaomeng Cui, Wangyang Lai and Tao Lin

Slow traffic, fast food: The effects of time lost on food store choice

Panka Bencsik, Lester Lusher and Rebecca Taylor

The effect of low-skilled immigration on local productivity and amenities: Learning from the South Korean experience

Hyejin Kim, Jongkwan Lee and Giovanni Peri

Long-term effects of weather-induced migration on urban labor and housing markets

Matias Busso and Juan Chauvin

Analyzing political preferences of second-generation immigrants across the rural–urban divide

Simone Moriconi, Giovanni Peri and Riccardo Turati

The effect of macroprudential policies on homeownership: Evidence from Switzerland

Elio Bolliger, Adrian Bruhin, Andreas Fuster and Maja Ganarin

JUE insight: Efficiency of bus priority infrastructure

Felipe González and Hugo E. Silva

Volume 145, issue C, 2025

Local favoritism in China's public procurement: Information frictions or incentive distortion?

Wei Tang, Yuan Wang and Jiameng Wu

Who bears the burden of real estate transfer taxes? Evidence from the German housing market

Mathias Dolls, Clemens Fuest, Carla Krolage and Florian Neumeier

Mortgage innovation and house price booms

Claes Bäckman and Chandler Lutz

The economic cost of locking down like China: Evidence from city-to-city truck flows

Jingjing Chen, Wei Chen, Ernest Liu, Jie Luo and Zheng Song

Connective financing: Chinese infrastructure projects and the diffusion of economic activity in developing countries

Richard Bluhm, Axel Dreher, Andreas Fuchs, Bradley C. Parks, Austin M. Strange and Michael J. Tierney

Building tall, falling short: An empirical assessment of Chinese skyscrapers

Ziyang Chen, Ting Chen, Yatang Lin and Jin Wang

Taxes and telework: The impacts of state income taxes in a work-from-home economy

David Agrawal and Jan K. Brueckner

Politically connected cities: Italy 1951–1991

Guglielmo Barone, Guido de Blasio and Elena Gentili

Volume 144, issue C, 2024

JUE Insight: The labor market effects of place-based policies: Evidence from England’s Neighbourhood Renewal Fund

Robert Calvert Jump and Adam Scavette

Bottleneck congestion and urban spatial structure with heterogeneous households: Equilibrium, capacity expansion and congestion tolling

Zhi-Chun Li, De-Ping Yu and André de Palma

Can real estate booms hurt firms? Evidence on investment substitution

Harald Hau and Difei Ouyang

Matching, centrality and the urban network

Benoît Schmutz-Bloch and Modibo Sidibé

Toxic Metal Injustice? Socioeconomic status at birth and exposure to airborne pollution

Oscar Erixson, Jakob Granath, Xiao Hu and Mattias Öhman

Unlocking neighborhood density

Melanie Krause and André Seidel

Commuting, gender and children

Malte Borghorst, Ismir Mulalic and Jos van Ommeren

Forward to the Special Issue “Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Journal of Urban Economics”

Nathaniel Baum-Snow and Kristian Behrens

Urban and spatial economics after 50 years

J. Vernon Henderson and Jacques-François Thisse

Journal of Urban Economics, 1991–2007

Jan K. Brueckner

JUE 2007–2023: Rising impact

Stuart S. Rosenthal and William C. Strange

The city-wide effects of tolling downtown drivers: Evidence from London’s congestion charge

Ian Herzog

China’s commuting-based metropolitan areas

Ting Chen, Yizhen Gu and Ben Zou