Journal of Urban Economics

1974 - 2025

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

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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

Volume 122, issue C, 2021

The impact of public employment: Evidence from Bonn

Sascha Becker, Stephan Heblich and Daniel M. Sturm

Echoes of rising tuition in students’ borrowing, educational attainment, and homeownership in post-recession America

Zachary Bleemer, Meta Brown, Donghoon Lee, Katherine Strair and Wilbert van der Klaauw

Market tremors: Shale gas exploration, earthquakes, and their impact on house prices

Stephen Gibbons, Stephan Heblich and Christopher Timmins

The local economic impacts of regeneration projects: Evidence from UK's single regeneration budget

Stephen Gibbons, Henry Overman and Matti Sarvimäki

National transportation networks, market access, and regional economic growth

Ian Herzog

Cities on pre-Columbian paths

Bruno Barsanetti

The congestion costs of Uber and Lyft

Matthew Tarduno

Cities and Smoking

Michael E. Darden

Slum growth in Brazilian cities

Guillermo Alves

Water purification efforts and the black‐white infant mortality gap, 1906–1938

D. Mark Anderson, Kerwin Kofi Charles, Daniel I. Rees and Tianyi Wang

Volume 121, issue C, 2021

Do political connections help or hinder urban economic growth? Evidence from 1,400 industrial parks in China

Matthew Kahn, Weizeng Sun, Jianfeng Wu and Siqi Zheng

Migrating natives and foreign immigration: Is there a preference for ethnic residential homogeneity?

Henrik Andersson, Heléne Berg and Matz Dahlberg

Community development by public wealth accumulation

Levon Barseghyan and Stephen Coate

Information value of property description: A Machine learning approach

Lily Shen and Stephen Ross

Commuting and innovation: Are closer inventors more productive?

Hongyu Xiao, Andy Wu and Jaeho Kim

Do urban wage premia reflect lower amenities? Evidence from Africa

Douglas Gollin, Martina Kirchberger and David Lagakos

The Cost of Traffic: Evidence from the London Congestion Charge

Cheng Tang

Age-based property tax exemptions

Spencer Banzhaf, Ryan Mickey and Carlianne Patrick

Volume 120, issue C, 2020

Malaria suitability, urbanization and subnational development in sub-Saharan Africa

Matthias Flückiger and Markus Ludwig

Preferences of public transit commuters: Evidence from smart card data in Singapore

Sumit Agarwal, Mi Diao, Jussi Keppo and Tien Foo Sing

Geographical proximity to refugee reception centres and voting

Massimiliano Bratti, Claudio Deiana, Enkelejda Havari, Gianluca Mazzarella and Elena Meroni

Rail accidents and property values in the era of unconventional energy production

Chuan Tang, Jeffrey Czajkowski, Martin Heintzelman, Minghao Li and Marilyn Montgomery