Journal of Urban Economics

1974 - 2025

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

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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

Volume 124, issue C, 2021

The local residential land use regulatory environment across U.S. housing markets: Evidence from a new Wharton index

Joseph Gyourko, Jonathan S. Hartley and Jacob Krimmel

The effect of LTV-based risk weights on house prices: Evidence from an Israeli macroprudential policy

Steven Laufer and Nitzan Tzur-Ilan

The local labour market effects of light rail transit

Justin Tyndall

Appointed public officials and local favoritism: Evidence from the German states

Thushyanthan Baskaran and Mariana Lopes da Fonseca

Violence, development, and migration waves: Evidence from Central American child migrant apprehensions

Michael Clemens

Short-term rentals and the housing market: Quasi-experimental evidence from Airbnb in Los Angeles

Hans Koster, Jos van Ommeren and Nicolas Volkhausen

Police safety, killings by the police, and the militarization of US law enforcement

Federico Masera

The internal spatial organization of firms: Evidence from Denmark

Camilo Acosta and Ditte Håkonsson Lyngemark

Revisiting the effects of housing transfer taxes

Essi Eerola, Oskari Harjunen, Teemu Lyytikäinen and Tuukka Saarimaa

Why is the rent so darn high? The role of growing demand to live in housing-supply-inelastic cities

Greg Howard and Jack Liebersohn

Volume 123, issue C, 2021

Aspiration adaptation in resource-constrained environments

Sebastian Galiani, Paul J. Gertler and Raimundo Undurraga

Too slow for the urban march: Litigations and the real estate market in Mumbai, India

Sahil Gandhi, Vaidehi Tandel, Alexander Tabarrok and Shamika Ravi

Housing markets in a pandemic: Evidence from historical outbreaks

Marc Francke and Matthijs Korevaar

Urban growth shadows

David Cuberes, Klaus Desmet and Jordan Rappaport

Foreclosure externalities and Vacant Property Registration Ordinances

Arnab Biswas, Christopher Cunningham, Kristopher Gerardi and Daniel Sexton

Optimal minimum wage setting in a federal system

Andrew Simon and Matthew Wilson

The price and allocation effects of targeted mandates: Evidence from lead hazards

Ludovica Gazze

Tax decentralization notwithstanding regional disparities

Antonio Bellofatto and Martin Besfamille

Uber and traffic safety: Evidence from Brazilian cities

Yuri Barreto, Raul Silveira Neto and Luis Carazza

On quantitative spatial economic models

Kristian Behrens and Yasusada Murata