Journal of Urban Economics

1974 - 2026

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

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Volume 155, issue C, 2026

Location choice when the number of jobs matters: matching in spatial equilibrium

Anthony Venables

The redistributive effects of transport policies

Morgan Ubeda

Floorspace price discontinuities and taxation in cross-border commuting areas

R. Kudashev and P.M. Picard

Ridesharing and the redistribution of economic activity

Caitlin Gorback

Cycling cities: Mode choice, car congestion, and urban structure

Tijl Hendrich, Hans R.A. Koster, Nicole Loumeau and Jos van Ommeren

Spatial scale of agglomeration and dispersion: Number, spacing, and the spatial extent of cities

Takashi Akamatsu, Tomoya Mori, Minoru Osawa and Yuki Takayama

The local and aggregate effects of land-use regulation on farmland protection

Yue Yu

De-concentrating integration? Spatial concentration, trade access, local fundamentals, and welfare

Eduardo Fraga

The geography of commodity booms

Luis Baldomero-Quintana

QSM: Introduction

Kristian Behrens and Gilles Duranton

Volume 154, issue C, 2026

The socioeconomic impacts of industrial parks in Ethiopia

Guangbo Huang, Min Wang and Huayu Xu

JUE insight: City size, monopsony, and the employment effects of minimum wages

Priyaranjan Jha, Jyotsana Kala, David Neumark and Antonio Rodriguez-Lopez

Disappointment looms around the corner: Visibility and businesses’ local market power

Romain Gauriot, Jeanne Jadeau and Lionel Page

Fracking ghost towns: How neighborhood exposure drives population decline

Arman Khachiyan

Local GDP estimates around the world

Esteban Rossi-Hansberg and Jialing Zhang

Development approval times and new housing supply: Evidence from Los Angeles

Stuart Gabriel and Edward Kung

Is ride-sharing good for environment? Evidence from combining satellite and survey data on U.S. cities

Yoshifumi Konishi and Akari Ono

Industrial spillovers from agricultural processing: Evidence from the beet sugar industry

Youn Baek

The death of the “High Street”? Main street closures, social disorder and urban change

Nils Braakmann and Diego Zambiasi

Flattening governments, flattening growth: Equalization–efficiency trade-off in jurisdictional reform

Shawn Xiaoguang Chen, Pei Li and Saijie Sun

JUE Insight: Technological innovation in mortgage underwriting and the growth in credit: 1985–2015

Christopher Foote, Lara Loewenstein and Paul S. Willen

Quantity, price, and compliance effects of a second-home taxation reform in France

Antoine Belgodere and Georges Casamatta

Housing market congestion: The effects of new for-sale supply on home prices and sale hazards

Elliot Anenberg and Daniel Ringo

Does Rapid Re-Housing reduce homelessness?

Brian Blackwell and Max Gross

Greasing the wheels of collaboration: Evidence from transfers of university presidents in China

Chang Xue and Lijuan Zhang

Can rapid rental assistance avert evictions? Evidence from administrative delays

Mason Alexander, Matthew Freedman and Stephanie Casey Pierce

Second-hand gentrification: Theory and evidence from high-speed rail extensions

Gabriel Loumeau and Antonio Russo

Volume 153, issue C, 2026

The air quality effects of Uber

Luis Sarmiento and Yeong Jae Kim

The determinants of declining internal migration

William 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 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 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 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