Journal of Urban Economics

1974 - 2025

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

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Volume 135, issue C, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic and unemployment: Evidence from mobile phone data from China

Teng Li, Panle Barwick, Yongheng Deng, Xinfei Huang and Shanjun Li

Locating Public Facilities: Theory and Micro Evidence from Paris

Gabriel Loumeau

The impact of minimum income on homelessness: Evidence from France

Gedeão Locks and Josselin Thuilliez

Household sorting in an ancient setting

Abhimanyu Gupta and Jonathan Halket

The impact of return migration on employment and wages in Mexican cities

Dario Diodato, Ricardo Hausmann and Frank Neffke

Volume 134, issue C, 2023

Delivery in the city: Differentiated products competition among New York restaurants

Nathan Schiff, Jacob Cosman and Tianran Dai

The effect of tax increment financing districts on job creation in Chicago

Todd Czurylo

Did DACA Harm US-Born Workers? Temporary Work Visas and Labor Market Competition

Emily Battaglia

Rent Control, Market Segmentation, and Misallocation: Causal Evidence from a Large-Scale Policy Intervention

Andreas Mense, Claus Michelsen and Konstantin A. Kholodilin

The price paid: Heuristic thinking and biased reference points in the housing market

Charlotte C. Meng

The Effect of Racial Composition on Neighborhood Housing Prices: Evidence from Hurricane Katrina-Induced Migration

Madeleine I.G. Daepp, Devin Michelle Bunten and Joanne Hsu

Local public finance dynamics and hurricane shocks

Rhiannon Jerch, Matthew Kahn and Gary C. Lin

Crime risk and housing values: Evidence from the gun offender registry

Cheng Tang and Thao Le

Public housing spillovers: Evidence from South Africa

Benjamin H. Bradlow, Stefano Polloni and William Violette

In the eye of the storm: Firms and capital destruction in India

Martino Pelli, Jeanne Tschopp, Natalia Bezmaternykh and Kodjovi Eklou

Spatial inequality and housing in China

Thomas Fischer

An Alternative Approach to Estimating Foreclosure and Short Sale Discounts

James N. Conklin, N. Edward Coulson, Moussa Diop and Nuno Mota

Volume 133, issue C, 2023

JUE Insight: Firms and industry agglomeration

Dominick Bartelme and Oren Ziv

JUE Insight: The effect of new market-rate housing construction on the low-income housing market

Evan Mast

JUE Insight: Zoning and property taxation revisited—Was Hamilton right?

Jan K. Brueckner

JUE Insight: The Impacts of Opportunity Zones on Zone Residents

Matthew Freedman, Shantanu Khanna and David Neumark

JUE Insight: The (non-)effect of opportunity zones on housing prices

Jiafeng Chen, Edward Glaeser and David Wessel

JUE Insight: Measuring the Stringency of Land Use Regulation Using a Shadow Price Approach

Junfu Zhang

JUE Insight: Is hospital quality predictive of pandemic deaths? Evidence from US counties

Johannes Kunz and Carol Propper

JUE Insight: Powering work from home

Steve Cicala

JUE Insight: COVID-19 and household preference for urban density in China

Naqun Huang, Jindong Pang and Yanmin Yang

JUE Insight: Urban flight seeded the COVID-19 pandemic across the United States

Joshua Coven, Arpit Gupta and Iris Yao

JUE Insight: Using the mode to test for selection in city size wage premia

Hugo Jales, Boqian Jiang and Stuart S. Rosenthal

JUE Insight: Difference-in-differences with geocoded microdata

Kyle Butts

JUE Insight: Making it home? Evidence on the long-run impact of an intensive support program for the chronically homeless on housing, employment and health

Daniel Kuehnle, Guy Johnson and Yi-Ping Tseng

JUE Insight: Condominium development does not lead to gentrification

Leah Boustan, Robert Margo, Matthew M. Miller, James Reeves and Justin Steil

JUE Insight: City-wide effects of new housing supply: Evidence from moving chains

Cristina Bratu, Oskari Harjunen and Tuukka Saarimaa

In remembrance Edwin S. Mills (1928-2021)

Robert Helsley and William Strange

Volume 132, issue C, 2022

Income shocks and housing spillovers: Evidence from the World War I Veterans’ Bonus

Sarah Quincy

Measuring the Value of Urban Consumption Amenities: A Time-Use Approach

Yichen Su

Government Contracting, Labor Intensity, and the Local Effects of Fiscal Consolidation: Evidence from the Budget Control Act of 2011

Timothy M. Komarek, Kyle Butts and Gary A. Wagner

Cities Without Skylines: Worldwide Building-Height Gaps and their Possible Determinants and Implications

Remi Jedwab, Jason Barr and Jan K. Brueckner

Volume 131, issue C, 2022

Local economic impacts of legislative malapportionment

Masami Imai

Effects of COVID‐19 shutdowns on domestic violence in US cities

Amalia Miller, Carmit Segal and Melissa Spencer

Taxi service with heterogeneous drivers and a competitive medallion market

Lewis Lehe and Ayush Pandey

Insecure property rights and the housing market: Explaining India’s housing vacancy paradox

Sahil Gandhi, Richard K. Green and Shaonlee Patranabis

Colonial Roads and Regional Inequality

Brian Marein

Volume 130, issue C, 2022

Valuing externalities of outdoor advertising in an urban setting – the case of Warsaw

Mikolaj Czajkowski, Michał Bylicki, Wiktor Budzinski and Mateusz Buczyński

The return to big-city experience: Evidence from refugees in Denmark

Fabian Eckert, Mads Hejlesen and Conor Walsh

Do people accept different cultures?

Mariko Nakagawa, Yasuhiro Sato, Takatoshi Tabuchi and Kazuhiro Yamamoto

The dynamics of industry agglomeration: Evidence from 44 years of coagglomeration patterns

Mathieu Steijn, Hans Koster and Frank Oort

Neighborhood crime and infant health

Daniel Grossman and Umair Khalil

Attenuation of agglomeration economies: Evidence from the universe of Chinese manufacturing firms

Jing Li, Liyao Li and Shimeng Liu

Should cities disband their police departments?

Richard T. Boylan

Trade and the spatial distribution of transport infrastructure

Gabriel Felbermayr and Alexander Tarasov