Journal of Urban Economics

1974 - 2025

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

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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

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

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

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

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

Urban revival in America: Victor Couture and Jessie Handbury
Land tenure and land-use in a developing city: A quantitative spatial model applied to Kampala, Uganda: Julia Bird and Anthony Venables
Cities and the structure of social interactions: Evidence from mobile phone data: Konstantin Büchel and Maximilian von Ehrlich
Calling from the outside: The role of networks in residential mobility: Konstantin Büchel, Maximilian von Ehrlich, Diego Puga and Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal
Do short-term rental platforms affect housing markets? Evidence from Airbnb in Barcelona: Miquel-Àngel Garcia-López, Jordi Jofre-Monseny, Rodrigo Martínez-Mazza and Mariona Segú

Measuring human capital divergence in a growing economy: Daniel A. Broxterman and Anthony Yezer
Taxes and Borrower Behavior: Evidence from the Mortgage Interest Deductibility Limit: Andrew Hanson
The effect of natural disasters on economic activity in US counties: A century of data: Leah Boustan, Matthew Kahn, Paul Rhode and Maria Lucia Yanguas
Social connectedness in urban areas: Michael Bailey, Patrick Farrell, Theresa Kuchler and Johannes Stroebel
Enabled to work: The impact of government housing on slum dwellers in South Africa: Simon Franklin
On the economic impacts of constraining second home investments: Christian Hilber and Olivier Schöni