Journal of Urban Economics

1974 - 2025

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

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Volume 80, issue C, 2014

Recent immigrants as labor market arbitrageurs: Evidence from the minimum wage pp. 1-12

Brian Cadena

Airlines’ strategic interactions and airport pricing in a dynamic bottleneck model of congestion pp. 13-27

Hugo E. Silva, Erik Verhoef and Vincent van den Berg

Are Catholic primary schools more effective than public primary schools? pp. 28-38

Todd Elder and Christopher Jepsen

Merit aid and post-college retention in the state pp. 39-50

David Sjoquist and John Winters

Dynamic bottleneck congestion and residential land use in the monocentric city pp. 51-61

Sergejs Gubins and Erik Verhoef

Financial literacy and mortgage equity withdrawals pp. 62-75

John Duca and Anil Kumar

Spatial lag models with nested random effects: An instrumental variable procedure with an application to English house prices pp. 76-86

Badi Baltagi, Bernard Fingleton and Alain Pirotte

Reconciling theory and empirics on the role of unemployment in mortgage default pp. 87-96

Joseph Gyourko and Joseph Tracy

The influence of state policy and proximity to medical services on health outcomes pp. 97-109

Jing Li

Competition for migrants in a federation: Tax or transfer competition? pp. 110-118

Marko Koethenbuerger

The effect of government corruption on the efficiency of US commercial airports pp. 119-132

Jia Yan and Tae Hoon Oum

Airports and urban sectoral employment pp. 133-152

Nicholas Sheard

Partial fiscal decentralization and demand responsiveness of the local public sector: Theory and evidence from Norway pp. 153-163

Lars-Erik Borge, Jan Brueckner and Jorn Rattso

The desegregating effect of school tracking pp. 164-177

Gianni De Fraja and Francisco Martínez-Mora

Volume 79, issue C, 2014

Spatial equilibrium with unemployment and wage bargaining: Theory and estimation pp. 2-19

Paul Beaudry, David Green and Benjamin Sand

State incentives for innovation, star scientists and jobs: Evidence from biotech pp. 20-38

Enrico Moretti and Daniel Wilson

Do labor market networks have an important spatial dimension? pp. 39-58

Judith K. Hellerstein, Mark Kutzbach and David Neumark

Why do so few women work in New York (and so many in Minneapolis)? Labor supply of married women across US cities pp. 59-71

Dan Black, Natalia Kolesnikova and Lowell Taylor

Family proximity, childcare, and women’s labor force attachment pp. 72-90

Janice Compton and Robert Pollak

The effect of public sector employment on local labour markets pp. 91-107

Giulia Faggio and Henry Overman

Ethnic unemployment rates and frictional markets pp. 108-120

Laurent Gobillon, Peter Rupert and Etienne Wasmer

Spatial changes in labour market inequality pp. 121-138

Joanne Lindley and Stephen Machin

Neighborhood quality and labor market outcomes: Evidence from quasi-random neighborhood assignment of immigrants pp. 139-166

Anna Damm

Volume 78, issue C, 2013

The effect of voluntary brownfields programs on nearby property values: Evidence from Illinois pp. 1-18

Joshua Linn

Uneven landscapes and city size distributions pp. 19-29

Sanghoon Lee and Qiang Li

Why do U.S. states adopt public–private partnership enabling legislation? pp. 30-41

R. Richard Geddes and Benjamin L. Wagner

Do political parties matter for local land use policies? pp. 42-56

Albert Solé-Ollé and Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal

School calendars, child care availability and maternal employment pp. 57-70

Jennifer Graves

A silver lining to white flight? White suburbanization and African–American homeownership, 1940–1980 pp. 71-80

Leah Boustan and Robert Margo

Volume 77, issue C, 2013

High-speed Internet growth and the demand for locally accessible information content pp. 1-10

Anton Bekkerman and Gregory Gilpin

Supply constraints and housing market dynamics pp. 11-26

Andrew Paciorek

Do small schools improve performance in large, urban districts? Causal evidence from New York City pp. 27-40

Amy Schwartz, Leanna Stiefel and Matthew Wiswall

Carpooling and driver responses to fuel price changes: Evidence from traffic flows in Los Angeles pp. 41-56

Antonio Bento, Jonathan Hughes and Daniel Kaffine

Measuring the external benefits of homeownership pp. 57-67

N. Edward Coulson and Herman Li

Volume 76, issue C, 2013

City size, network structure and traffic congestion pp. 1-14

Theodore Tsekeris and Nikolas Geroliminis

The bargaining power of teachers’ unions and the allocation of school resources pp. 15-27

Eric Brunner and Tim Squires

Agglomeration in a city with choosy consumers under imperfect information pp. 28-42

Takaaki Takahashi

Road investments and inventory reduction: Firm level evidence from China pp. 43-52

Han Li and Zhigang Li

Traffic externalities in cities: The economics of speed bumps, low emission zones and city bypasses pp. 53-70

Bruno De Borger and Stef Proost

Local public goods and the demand for high-income municipalities pp. 71-82

Leah Boustan

Second-best cost–benefit analysis in monopolistic competition models of urban agglomeration pp. 83-92

Yoshitsugu Kanemoto

What happens to household formation in a recession? pp. 93-109

Kwan Ok Lee and Gary Painter

A bathtub model of downtown traffic congestion pp. 110-121

Richard Arnott

Hypercongestion in downtown metropolis pp. 122-134

Mogens Fosgerau and Kenneth Small

Volume 75, issue C, 2013

Wal-Mart and the geography of grocery retailing pp. 1-14

Paul B. Ellickson and Paul L.E. Grieco

Valuing school quality using boundary discontinuities pp. 15-28

Stephen Gibbons, Stephen Machin and Olmo Silva

On the origins of land use regulations: Theory and evidence from US metro areas pp. 29-43

Christian Hilber and Frederic Robert-Nicoud

Agglomeration elasticities and firm heterogeneity pp. 44-56

David Maré and Daniel Graham

State and local tax competition in a spatial model with sales taxes and residential property taxes pp. 57-67

Ralph M. Braid

Entrepreneurial land developers: Joint production, local externalities, and mixed housing developments pp. 68-79

Hideo Konishi

Who offers tax-based business development incentives? pp. 80-91

Alison Felix and James Hines

Do governments tax agglomeration rents? pp. 92-106

Hyun-Ju Koh, Nadine Riedel and Tobias Böhm