Journal of Urban Economics

1974 - 2025

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

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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

Volume 129, issue C, 2022

Local access to mental healthcare and crime

Monica Deza, Johanna Catherine Maclean and Keisha Solomon

The economics of skyscrapers: A synthesis

Gabriel Ahlfeldt and Jason Barr

Landlords and access to opportunity

Dionissi Aliprantis, Hal Martin and David Phillips

Minimum wage increases and eviction risk

Sumit Agarwal, Brent Ambrose and Moussa Diop

Take the Q train: Value capture of public infrastructure projects

Arpit Gupta, Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh and Constantine Kontokosta

Equilibrium sorting and moral hazard in residential energy contracts

Dylan Brewer

Gender differences in job flexibility: Commutes and working hours after job loss

Jordy Meekes and Wolter H.J. Hassink

Housing supply and affordability: Evidence from rents, housing consumption and household location

Raven Molloy, Charles G. Nathanson and Andrew Paciorek

House prices, housing wealth and financial well-being

Kadir Atalay and Rebecca Edwards

Merchant networks in big cities

David Gomtsyan

Mobility responses to the establishment of a residential tax haven: Evidence from Switzerland

Isabel Martínez

How bad is crime for business? Evidence from consumer behavior

Hao Fe and Viviane Sanfelice

Volume 128, issue C, 2022

Railways, divergence, and structural change in 19th century England and Wales

Dan Bogart, Xuesheng You, Eduard J. Alvarez-Palau, Max Satchell and Leigh Shaw-Taylor

Who lives where in the city? Amenities, commuting and income sorting

Carl Gaigne, Hans Koster, Fabien Moizeau and Jacques Thisse

The effect of immigration enforcement on crime reporting: Evidence from Dallas

Elisa Jácome

Strategic behavior under tradeable driving permits and congestion tolls: A political economy model

Bruno De Borger, Amihai Glazer and Stef Proost

Not in my neighbour’s back yard? Laneway homes and neighbours’ property values

Thomas Davidoff, Andrey Pavlov and Tsur Somerville

A new way of evaluating the optimality of a transportation improvement in a class of urban land use models

Abu Nur Rashed Ahmed, Yuichiro Yoshida and Richard Arnott

Decomposing the employment effects of investment subsidies

Augusto Cerqua and Guido Pellegrini

Household mortgage refinancing decisions are neighbor influenced, especially along racial lines

W. Ben McCartney and Avni M. Shah

Life in the slow lane: Unintended consequences of public transit in Jakarta

Arya Gaduh, Tadeja Gračner and Alexander Rothenberg

Citywide parking policy and traffic: Evidence from Amsterdam

Francis Ostermeijer, Hans Koster, Leonardo Nunes and Jos van Ommeren