Journal of Urban Economics

1974 - 2025

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

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Volume 74, issue C, 2013

Agglomeration and demographic change pp. 1-11

Theresa Grafeneder-Weissteiner and Klaus Prettner

Market structure, countervailing power and price discrimination: The case of airports pp. 12-26

Jonathan Haskel, Alberto Iozzi and Tommaso Valletti

Language and urban labor market segmentation: Theory and evidence pp. 27-46

Qiang Li

Home market effects with endogenous costs of production pp. 47-58

Armando Garcia Pires

Do foreclosures cause crime? pp. 59-70

Ingrid Gould Ellen, Johanna Lacoe and Claudia Ayanna Sharygin

Option value and the price of teardown properties pp. 71-82

Daniel McMillen and O’Sullivan, Arthur

Segregation and Tiebout sorting: The link between place-based investments and neighborhood tipping pp. 83-98

Spencer Banzhaf and Randall Walsh

Urban density, law and the duration of real estate leases pp. 99-112

Sheridan Titman and Garry Twite

Spatial versus social mismatch pp. 113-132

Yves Zenou

Volume 73, issue 1, 2013

Do borrower rights improve borrower outcomes? Evidence from the foreclosure process pp. 1-17

Kristopher Gerardi, Lauren Lambie-Hanson and Paul Willen

US city size distribution: Robustly Pareto, but only in the tail pp. 18-29

Yannis Ioannides and Spyros Skouras

Does it pay to get an A? School resource allocations in response to accountability ratings pp. 30-42

Steven Craig, Scott Imberman and Adam Perdue

Repairs under imperfect information pp. 43-56

Sanghoon Lee, John Ries and Craig Somerville

Swings in commercial and residential land prices in the United States pp. 57-76

Joseph B. Nichols, Stephen Oliner and Michael R. Mulhall

Does housing drive state-level job growth? Building permits and consumer expectations forecast a state’s economic activity pp. 77-93

Jack Strauss

Geographic clustering and productivity: An instrumental variable approach for classical composers pp. 94-110

Karol Borowiecki

Saving and consumption in cities pp. 111-124

David Frame

Volume 72, issue 2, 2012

Road pricing with optimal mass transit pp. 81-86

Marvin Kraus

Thick-market effects and churning in the labor market: Evidence from US cities pp. 87-103

Hoyt Bleakley and Jeffrey Lin

Value added of teachers in high-poverty schools and lower poverty schools pp. 104-122

Tim Sass, Jane Hannaway, Zeyu Xu, David Figlio and Li Feng

Are compact cities environmentally friendly? pp. 123-136

Carl Gaigne, Stephane Riou and Jacques Thisse

Cultural transmission and discrimination pp. 137-146

Maria Saez-Marti and Yves Zenou

Energy footprint of the city: Effects of urban land use and transportation policies pp. 147-159

William Larson, Feng Liu and Anthony Yezer

Pain at the pump: Gasoline prices and subjective well-being pp. 160-175

Casey Boyd-Swan and Chris M. Herbst

Urban spatial structure, suburbanization and transportation in Barcelona pp. 176-190

Miquel-Àngel Garcia-López

Even small trade costs restore efficiency in tax competition pp. 191-195

Johannes Becker and Marco Runkel

Internalization of congestion at US hub airports pp. 196-209

Itai Ater

Medicaid and the housing and asset decisions of the elderly: Evidence from estate recovery programs pp. 210-224

Nadia Greenhalgh-Stanley

Dialects, cultural identity, and economic exchange pp. 225-239

Oliver Falck, Stephan Heblich, Alfred Lameli and Jens Südekum

Do municipal amalgamations work? Evidence from municipalities in Israel pp. 240-251

Yaniv Reingewertz

Relaxing Hukou: Increased labor mobility and China’s economic geography pp. 252-266

Maarten Bosker, Steven Brakman, Harry Garretsen and Marc Schramm

Migration, housing market, and labor market responses to employment shocks pp. 267-284

Jeffrey Zabel

Volume 72, issue 1, 2012

Inshoring: The geographic fragmentation of production and inequality pp. 1-16

Wen-Chi Liao

Strategic fiscal interaction across borders: Evidence from French and German local governments along the Rhine Valley pp. 17-30

Aurélie Cassette, Edoardo Di Porto and Dirk Foremny

Search and matching in the housing market pp. 31-45

David Genesove and Lu Han

Step tolling with bottleneck queuing congestion pp. 46-59

Charles Lindsey, Vincent van den Berg and Erik Verhoef

Timing is everything: Short-run population impacts of immigration in US cities pp. 60-78

Abigail Wozniak and Thomas J. Murray

Volume 71, issue 3, 2012

Congestion in a city with a central bottleneck pp. 269-277

Mogens Fosgerau and André de Palma

Intermodal competition in the London–Paris passenger market: High-Speed Rail and air transport pp. 278-288

Christiaan Behrens and Eric Pels

Do city climate plans reduce emissions? pp. 289-311

Adam Millard-Ball

A non-parametric test for industrial specialization pp. 312-331

Stephen Billings and Erik Johnson

The value of scarce water: Measuring the inefficiency of municipal regulations pp. 332-346

Erin Mansur and Sheila M. Olmstead

No cohort left behind? pp. 347-354

Philip Babcock, Kelly Bedard and Jennifer Schulte

Volume 71, issue 2, 2012

Fiscal centralization versus decentralization: Growth and welfare effects of spillovers, Leviathan taxation, and capital mobility pp. 177-188

Angus Chu and C.C. Yang

Closing schools in a shrinking district: Do student outcomes depend on which schools are closed? pp. 189-203

John Engberg, Brian Gill, Gema Zamarro and Ron Zimmer

The foreclosure discount: Myth or reality? pp. 204-218

John P. Harding, Eric Rosenblatt and Vincent Yao

Effect of immigrant nurses on labor market outcomes of US nurses pp. 219-229

Robert Kaestner and Neeraj Kaushal

Subprime mortgages and the housing bubble pp. 230-243

Jan Brueckner, Paul S. Calem and Leonard Nakamura

Does home owning smooth the variability of future housing consumption? pp. 244-257

Andrew Paciorek and Todd Sinai

The influence of gay and lesbian coupled households on house prices in conservative and liberal neighborhoods pp. 258-267

David Christafore and Susane Leguizamon

Volume 71, issue 1, 2012

Dressed for success? The effect of school uniforms on student achievement and behavior pp. 1-17

Elisabetta Gentile and Scott Imberman

School district quality and property values: Examining differences along school district boundaries pp. 18-25

Paramita Dhar and Stephen Ross

Economic growth, size of the agricultural sector, and urbanization in Africa pp. 26-36

Markus Brückner

The geographic accessibility of child care subsidies and evidence on the impact of subsidy receipt on childhood obesity pp. 37-52

Chris M. Herbst and Erdal Tekin

Regulation in the market for education and optimal choice of curriculum pp. 53-65

Gerald Eisenkopf and Ansgar Wohlschlegel

Understanding Business Improvement District formation: An analysis of neighborhoods and boundaries pp. 66-78

Rachel Meltzer

A political economy model of road pricing pp. 79-92

Bruno De Borger and Stef Proost

Residential land use regulation and the US housing price cycle between 2000 and 2009 pp. 93-99

Haifang Huang and Yao Tang

Broadband and local growth pp. 100-113

Jed Kolko

Soft budget constraints and strategic interactions in subnational borrowing: Evidence from the German States, 1975–2005 pp. 114-127

Thushyanthan Baskaran

Long-term earnings and employment effects of housing voucher receipt pp. 128-150

Deven Carlson, Robert Haveman, Tom Kaplan and Barbara Wolfe

Primary prevention and health outcomes: Treatment of residential lead-based paint hazards and the prevalence of childhood lead poisoning pp. 151-164

David J. Jones

Local labor market impacts of energy boom-bust-boom in Western Canada pp. 165-174

Joseph Marchand