Journal of Urban Economics

1974 - 2025

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

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Volume 66, issue 3, 2009

The effects of vehicle ownership on employment pp. 151-163

Charles Baum

The contagion effect of foreclosed properties pp. 164-178

John P. Harding, Eric Rosenblatt and Vincent Yao

Self-organizing marketplaces pp. 179-185

Takatoshi Tabuchi

Agglomeration and the export decisions of French firms pp. 186-195

Pamina Koenig

Dynamic control of rural-urban migration pp. 196-202

Ryo Itoh

Do inter-city differences in intra-city wage differentials have any interesting implications? pp. 203-209

Dongsoo Kim, Feng Liu and Anthony Yezer

Interregional tax competition and intraregional political competition: The optimal provision of public goods under representative democracy pp. 210-217

Toshihiro Ihori and C.C. Yang

Is there a compensating wage differential for high crime levels? First evidence from Europe pp. 218-231

Nils Braakmann

Volume 66, issue 2, 2009

Current account patterns and national real estate markets pp. 75-89

Joshua Aizenman and Yothin Jinjarak

What moves housing markets: A variance decomposition of the rent-price ratio pp. 90-102

Sean D. Campbell, Morris Davis, Joshua Gallin and Robert F. Martin

Teacher qualifications and student achievement in urban elementary schools pp. 103-115

Richard Buddin and Gema Zamarro

Optimal highway design and user welfare under value pricing pp. 116-124

Thomas Light

Price discrimination in the housing market pp. 125-140

Keith Ihlanfeldt and Tom Mayock

The market price of Low-Income Housing Tax Credits pp. 141-149

Michael Eriksen

Volume 66, issue 1, 2009

Editorial pp. 1-1

Stuart Rosenthal and William Strange

Urbanization, productivity, and innovation: Evidence from investment in higher education pp. 2-15

Roland Andersson, John Quigley and Mats Wilhelmsson

Cost recovery from congestion tolls with random capacity and demand pp. 16-24

Charles Lindsey

Subsidies for intracity and intercity commuting pp. 25-32

Rainald Borck and Matthias Wrede

Pricing the major US hub airports pp. 33-56

Joseph Daniel and Katherine Thomas Harback

Local officials as land developers: Urban spatial expansion in China pp. 57-64

Erik Lichtenberg and Chengri Ding

Historical religious concentrations and the effects of Catholic schooling pp. 65-74

Danny Cohen-Zada and Todd Elder

Volume 65, issue 3, 2009

Irreversible investment, real options, and competition: Evidence from real estate development pp. 237-251

Laarni Bulan, Christopher Mayer and Craig Somerville

Housing tenure and labor market impacts: The search goes on pp. 252-264

N. Edward Coulson and Lynn Fisher

The causes and consequences of land use regulation: Evidence from Greater Boston pp. 265-278

Edward L. Glaeser and Bryce Ward

Second generation fiscal federalism: The implications of fiscal incentives pp. 279-293

Barry Weingast

Geographic concentration and vertical disintegration: Evidence from China pp. 294-304

Ben Li and Yi Lu

Three-rate property taxation and housing construction pp. 305-313

Teemu Lyytikäinen

Reduced-class distinctions: Effort, ability, and the education production function pp. 314-322

Philip Babcock and Julian R. Betts

Endogenous job destruction and job matching in cities pp. 323-336

Yves Zenou

Volume 65, issue 2, 2009

Terrorism and attitudes towards minorities: The effect of the Theo van Gogh murder on house prices in Amsterdam pp. 113-126

Pieter Gautier, Arjen Siegmann and Aico van Vuuren

Does traffic congestion reduce employment growth? pp. 127-135

Kent Hymel

Skills in the city pp. 136-153

Marigee Bacolod, Bernardo S. Blum and William Strange

Motorization in developing countries: Causes, consequences, and effectiveness of policy options pp. 154-166

Mark Kutzbach

Trends and determinants of China's industrial agglomeration pp. 167-180

Lu Jiangyong and Zhigang Tao

States and the business cycle pp. 181-194

Michael Owyang, David E. Rapach and Howard Wall

Industry location and welfare when transport costs are endogenous pp. 195-208

Kristian Behrens, Carl Gaigne and Jacques Thisse

The Quality-Income effect and the selection of location pp. 209-215

Emanuele Bacchiega and Antonio Minniti

Air travel choices in multi-airport markets pp. 216-227

Jun Ishii, Sunyoung Jun and Kurt Van Dender

City size and the Henry George Theorem under monopolistic competition pp. 228-235

Kristian Behrens and Yasusada Murata

Volume 65, issue 1, 2009

Impact of maternal imprisonment on children's probability of grade retention pp. 11-23

Rosa Minhyo Cho

Do carriers internalize congestion costs? Empirical evidence on the internalization question pp. 24-37

Nicholas Rupp

Workers' marginal costs of commuting pp. 38-47

Jos van Ommeren and Mogens Fosgerau

Agglomeration and growth: Cross-country evidence pp. 48-63

Marius Brülhart and Federica Sbergami

Miles to go before I learn: The effect of travel distance on the mature person's choice of a community college pp. 64-73

Christopher Jepsen and Mark Montgomery

Why do households without children support local public schools? Linking house price capitalization to school spending pp. 74-90

Christian Hilber and Christopher Mayer

The impact of residential density on vehicle usage and energy consumption pp. 91-98

David Brownstone and Thomas F. Golob

Labor pooling in R&D intensive industries pp. 99-111

Heiko Gerlach, Thomas Rønde and Konrad Stahl

Volume 64, issue 3, 2008

Local amenities and life-cycle migration: Do people move for jobs or fun? pp. 519-537

Yong Chen and Stuart Rosenthal

The economic performance of cities: A Markov-switching approach pp. 538-550

Michael Owyang, Jeremy Piger, Howard Wall and Christopher Wheeler

Too big or too small? A synthetic view of the commitment problem of interregional transfers pp. 551-559

Nobuo Akai and Motohiro Sato

Teacher quality and dropout outcomes in a large, urban school district pp. 560-572

Cory Koedel

Changes in the distribution of house prices over time: Structural characteristics, neighborhood, or coefficients? pp. 573-589

Daniel McMillen

Job hopping, earnings dynamics, and industrial agglomeration in the software publishing industry pp. 590-600

Matthew Freedman

Fear of crime and housing prices: Household reactions to sex offender registries pp. 601-614

Jaren Pope

Volume 64, issue 2, 2008

Mortgages and the Housing Crash: A Symposium pp. 197-197

Stuart Rosenthal and William Strange

Housing supply and housing bubbles pp. 198-217

Edward L. Glaeser, Joseph Gyourko and Albert Saiz

Do borrowers know their mortgage terms? pp. 218-233

Brian Bucks and Karen Pence

Negative equity and foreclosure: Theory and evidence pp. 234-245

Christopher Foote, Kristopher Gerardi and Paul Willen

Juvenile delinquent mortgages: Bad credit or bad economy? pp. 246-257

Andrew Haughwout, Richard Peach and Joseph Tracy

How do spatial and social proximity influence knowledge flows? Evidence from patent data pp. 258-269

Ajay Agrawal, Devesh Kapur and John McHale

Hedging house price risk in the presence of lumpy transaction costs pp. 270-287

Lu Han

Atomistic congestion tolls at concentrated airports? Seeking a unified view in the internalization debate pp. 288-295

Jan Brueckner and Kurt Van Dender

From Brown to busing pp. 296-325

Elizabeth Cascio, Nora Gordon, Ethan Lewis and Sarah Reber

Industry churning and the evolution of cities: Evidence for Germany pp. 326-339

Sebastian Findeisen and Jens Südekum

The merits of separating cars and trucks pp. 340-361

André de Palma, Moez Kilani and Charles Lindsey

Discrimination in the rental housing market: A field experiment on the Internet pp. 362-372

Ali M. Ahmed and Mats Hammarstedt

The attenuation of human capital spillovers pp. 373-389

Stuart Rosenthal and William Strange

Pollution and land use: Optimum and decentralization pp. 390-407

Richard Arnott, Oded Hochman and Gordon Rausser

New evidence on the link between housing environment and children's educational attainments pp. 408-421

Hsienming Lien, Wen-Chieh Wu and Chu-Chia Lin

Ownership forms matter for airport efficiency: A stochastic frontier investigation of worldwide airports pp. 422-435

Tae H. Oum, Jia Yan and Chunyan Yu

Geographic redistribution of US manufacturing and the role of state development policy pp. 436-450

Yoonsoo Lee

Is terrorism eroding agglomeration economies in Central Business Districts? Lessons from the office real estate market in downtown Chicago pp. 451-463

Alberto Abadie and Sofia Dermisi

Spatial mismatch or racial mismatch? pp. 464-479

Judith Hellerstein, David Neumark and Melissa McInerney

Redistribution and regional development under tax competition pp. 480-487.e1

Mutsumi Matsumoto

Risk externalities and the problem of wildfire risk pp. 488-495

Aric Shafran

Racial and ethnic discrimination in local consumer markets: Exploiting the army's procedures for matching personnel to duty locations pp. 496-509

Heather Antecol and Deborah Cobb-Clark

Testing the efficiency of the Norwegian housing market pp. 510-517

Erling Røed Larsen and Steffen Weum

Volume 64, issue 1, 2008

Heterogeneity within communities: A stochastic model with tenure choice pp. 1-17

Francois Ortalo-Magne and Sven Rady

Social interaction and urban sprawl pp. 18-34

Jan Brueckner and Ann G. Largey

Vertical externalities in cigarette taxation: Do tax revenues go up in smoke? pp. 35-48

Per Fredriksson and Khawaja Saeed Mamun

A game-theoretic analysis of skyscrapers pp. 49-64

Robert Helsley and William Strange

Measuring the welfare effects of slum improvement programs: The case of Mumbai pp. 65-84

Akie Takeuchi, Maureen Cropper and Antonio Bento

Religion, religiosity and private school choice: Implications for estimating the effectiveness of private schools pp. 85-100

Danny Cohen-Zada and William Sander

The trade-off between money and travel time: A test of the theory of reference-dependent preferences pp. 101-115

Bruno De Borger and Mogens Fosgerau

Revisiting the "Decentralization Theorem"--On the role of externalities pp. 116-122

Marko Koethenbuerger

The effect of charter schools on traditional public school students in Texas: Are children who stay behind left behind? pp. 123-145

Kevin Booker, Scott Gilpatric, Timothy Gronberg and Dennis Jansen

Firm innovation: The influence of R&D cooperation and the geography of human capital inputs pp. 146-154

Jaakko Simonen and Philip McCann

A direct test of the homevoter hypothesis pp. 155-170

Carolyn A. Dehring, Craig Depken and Michael Ward

Economies of scale in networks pp. 171-177

Marvin Kraus

Job creation and housing construction: Constraints on metropolitan area employment growth pp. 178-195

Raven E. Saks