Journal of Urban Economics

1974 - 2025

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

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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

Volume 127, issue C, 2022

JUE Insight: How much does COVID-19 increase with mobility? Evidence from New York and four other U.S. cities

Edward L. Glaeser, Caitlin Gorback and Stephen Redding

JUE Insight: The determinants of the differential exposure to COVID-19 in New York city and their evolution over time

Milena Almagro and Angelo Orane-Hutchinson

JUE Insight: Were urban cowboys enough to control COVID-19? Local shelter-in-place orders and coronavirus case growth

Dhaval Dave, Andrew Friedson, Kyutaro Matsuzawa, Joseph J. Sabia and Samuel Safford

JUE Insight: College student travel contributed to local COVID-19 spread

Daniel Mangrum and Paul Niekamp

JUE Insight: The geographic spread of COVID-19 correlates with the structure of social networks as measured by Facebook

Theresa Kuchler, Dominic Russel and Johannes Stroebel

JUE Insight: Measuring movement and social contact with smartphone data: a real-time application to COVID-19

Victor Couture, Jonathan Dingel, Allison Green, Jessie Handbury and Kevin R. Williams

JUE Insight: How do cities change when we work from home?

Matthew Delventhal, Eunjee Kwon and Andrii Parkhomenko

JUE Insight: Understanding spatial variation in COVID-19 across the United States

Klaus Desmet and Romain Wacziarg

JUE insight: Migration, transportation infrastructure, and the spatial transmission of COVID-19 in China

Bingjing Li and Lin Ma

JUE insights: Does mobility explain why slums were hit harder by COVID-19 in Mumbai, India?

Jaymee Sheng, Anup Malani, Ashish Goel and Purushotham Botla

JUE insight: Learning epidemiology by doing: The empirical implications of a Spatial-SIR model with behavioral responses

Alberto Bisin and Andrea Moro

JUE Insight: The geography of pandemic containment

Elisa Giannone, Nuno Miguel Marques da Paixao and Xinle Pang

JUE insight: Are city centers losing their appeal? Commercial real estate, urban spatial structure, and COVID-19

Stuart Rosenthal, William Strange and Joaquin Urrego

JUE Insight: Distributional Impacts of Retail Vaccine Availability

Judith A. Chevalier, Jason L. Schwartz, Yihua Su and Kevin R. Williams

JUE Insight: The Geography of Travel Behavior in the Early Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Jeffrey Brinkman and Kyle Mangum

JUE insight: Demand for transportation and spatial pattern of economic activity during the pandemic

Kong-Pin Chen, Jui-Chung Yang and Tzu-Ting Yang

The Spread and Consequences of COVID-19 for Cities: An Introduction

Nathaniel Baum-Snow, Edward L. Glaeser and Stuart Rosenthal

Volume 126, issue C, 2021

Academic achievement and wellbeing of dual language learners: Evidence from a busing program

Anna Damm, Elena Mattana, Helena Nielsen and Bénédicte Rouland

The amplifying effect of capitalization rates on housing supply

Simon Büchler, Maximilian von Ehrlich and Olivier Schöni

The value of climate amenities: A comparison of hedonic and discrete choice approaches

Paramita Sinha, Martha Caulkins and Maureen Cropper

The impact of local residential land use restrictions on land values across and within single family housing markets

Joe Gyourko and Jacob Krimmel

The long-term impact of the resettlement of the Sudetenland on residential migration

Martin Guzi, Peter Huber and Štěpán Mikula

Cities and tasks

Hans Koster and Ceren Ozgen

Child access prevention laws and juvenile firearm-related homicides

D. Mark Anderson, Joseph J. Sabia and Erdal Tekin

The local impact of containerization

Leah Brooks, Nicolas Gendron-Carrier and Gisela Rua

City size, pollution and emission policies

Michael Pflüger

Access to ports and the welfare gains from domestic transportation infrastructure

Yang Xu and Xi Yang

Volume 125, issue C, 2021

Detecting urban markets with satellite imagery: An application to India

Kathryn Baragwanath, Ran Goldblatt, Gordon Hanson and Amit Khandelwal

Cities, lights, and skills in developing economies

Jonathan Dingel, Antonio Miscio and Donald R. Davis

Measuring urban economic density

J. Vernon Henderson, Dzhamilya Nigmatulina and Sebastian Kriticos

Building(s and) cities: Delineating urban areas with a machine learning algorithm

Daniel Arribas-Bel, Miquel-Àngel Garcia-López and Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal

Delineating urban areas using building density

Marie-Pierre de Bellefon, Pierre-Philippe Combes, Gilles Duranton, Laurent Gobillon and Clément Gorin

Identifying urban areas by combining human judgment and machine learning: An application to India

Virgilio Galdo, Yue Li and Martin Rama

Metropolitan areas in the world. Delineation and population trends

Ana I. Moreno-Monroy, Marcello Schiavina and Paolo Veneri

Measuring the size and growth of cities using nighttime light

Rafael Ch, Diego A. Martin and Juan Vargas

Definition matters. Metropolitan areas and agglomeration economies in a large-developing country

Maarten Bosker, Jane Park and Mark Roberts

Applying the Degree of Urbanisation to the globe: A new harmonised definition reveals a different picture of global urbanisation

Lewis Dijkstra, Aneta J. Florczyk, Sergio Freire, Thomas Kemper, Michele Melchiorri, Martino Pesaresi and Marcello Schiavina