Journal of Urban Economics

1974 - 2026

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

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Volume 153, issue C, 2026

The air quality effects of Uber

Luis Sarmiento and Yeong Jae Kim

The determinants of declining internal migration

William W. Olney and Owen Thompson

The effects of comprehensive pay reform on achievement in urban schools

Eric Hanushek, Jin Luo, Andrew Morgan, Minh Nguyen, Ben Ost, Steven Rivkin and Ayman Shakeel

Selective migration and regional decline: Evidence from coal country

Eleanor Krause

Judge for yourself? The impact of controls on the rental market in interwar New York

Maximilian Günnewig-Mönert and Ronan C. Lyons

Asian immigrants, school quality, and the U.S. housing market

Amanda Ang, Eunjee Kwon and Siqi Zheng

Property tax competition: A quantitative assessment

Rainald Borck, Jun Oshiro and Yasuhiro Sato

The impact of natural disasters on rental markets: Heterogeneous effects, rental subsidies, and equity in disaster recovery

Katharine W.H. Harwood

Old but gold: Historical pathways and path dependence

Diogo Baerlocher, Guilherme Lambais, Eustáquio Reis, Diego Firmino Costa da Silva and Henrique Veras

Extrapolative households and strategic firms: Evidence from China’s land and housing market

Zhe Liu, Wei Shi, Yan Song and Weizeng Sun

Corrigendum to “Judge for Yourself? The Impact of Controls on the Rental Market in Interwar New York” [Journal of Urban Economics, Volume 153 (2026), Article 103859]

Maximilian Günnewig-Mönert and Ronan C. Lyons

Volume 152, issue C, 2026

Identifying the general equilibrium effects of narcotics enforcement

Zachary Porreca

The topography of regulatory costs: The shadow cost-gradient of parking standards

W. Bowman Cutter, Sofia F. Franco and W. Skyler Lewis

JUE insight: Floods & urban density

Pierre Magontier and Rodrigo Martinez-Mazza

Working from home increases work–home distances

Sena Coskun, Wolfgang Dauth, Hermann Gartner, Michael Stops and Enzo Weber

Does political partisanship affect housing supply? Evidence from US cities

Fernando Ferreira and Joseph Gyourko

Sticky places: The effect of college on where you live

Andreas Fidjeland, Tora Knutsen and Magnus Stubhaug

When the neighbors are watching: Immigrant integration policy and housing wealth

Mario F. Carillo, Lavinia Piemontese and Francesco Flaviano Russo

The redistribution of housing wealth caused by rent control

Kenneth R. Ahern and Marco Giacoletti

Volume 151, issue C, 2026

Industrial Transfer Policy in China: Migration and development

Michiel Gerritse, Zhiling Wang and Frank Oort

JUE Insight: Shovel ready projects and commercial construction activity’s long and variable lags

David Glancy, Robert Kurtzman and Lara Loewenstein

JUE insight: Moving cost magnitudes in moving cost models

Greg Howard

Corrigendum to “Impact of fertility relaxation on the housing market outcomes” [Journal of Urban Economics Volume 150, November 2025, 103812]

Keyang Li, Yixun Tang and Qiuyi Wang

Volume 150, issue C, 2025

Tastes, geography and culture

Eve Colson-Sihra, José De Sousa and Thierry Mayer

Migration crisis in the local news: Evidence from the French–Italian border

Silvia Peracchi

Elasticities and tax incidence in urban ridesharing markets: Evidence from Chicago

Matthew Tarduno

Death, destruction, and growth in cities: Entrepreneurial capital and economic geography after the 1918 influenza

Robert B. Fluegge

Tourism growth, education decline: Evidence from China’s 5A attraction expansion

Zeyi He, Zhi-An Hu, Wei Huang and Yankun Kang

Impact of fertility relaxation on the housing market outcomes

Keyang Li, Yixun Tang and Qiuyi Wang

Follow thy neighbor: The role of first exporters

Hao Fe, Yang Liang and Mary E. Lovely

Will you follow your job to the suburbs?

Gregory Verdugo and Malak Kandoussi

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 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