Journal of Urban Economics

1974 - 2025

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

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Volume 119, issue C, 2020

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

Volume 118, issue C, 2020

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

Volume 117, issue C, 2020

Accounting for central neighborhood change, 1980–2010

Nathaniel Baum-Snow and Daniel Hartley

The capitalization of energy efficiency: Evidence from the housing market

Erdal Aydin, Dirk Brounen and Nils Kok

The role of demand in land re-development

Felipe Carozzi

Immigration enforcement awareness and community engagement with police: Evidence from domestic violence calls in Los Angeles

Ashley N. Muchow and Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes

Volume 116, issue C, 2020

The role of relocation mobility in tax and subsidy competition

Alexander Haupt and Tim Krieger

Bank adaptation to neighborhood change: Mortgage lending and the Community Reinvestment Act

Hyojung Lee and Raphael W. Bostic

Locational fundamentals, trade, and the changing urban landscape of Mexico

Jennifer Alix-Garcia and Emily A. Sellars

Ethnicity and tax filing behavior

Spencer Bastani, Thomas Giebe and Chizheng Miao

On the city size distribution: A finite mixture interpretation

Hsuan-Li Su

Stringency of land-use regulation: Building heights in US cities

Jan Brueckner and Ruchi Singh

The role of airports in city employment growth, 1950–2010

Marquise McGraw

The consequences of friendships: Evidence on the effect of social relationships in school on academic achievement

Jason Fletcher, Stephen L. Ross and Yuxiu Zhang

Volume 115, issue C, 2020

Does investment in national highways help or hurt hinterland city growth?

Nathaniel Baum-Snow, J. Vernon Henderson, Matthew Turner, Qinghua Zhang and Loren Brandt

Geography, trade, and internal migration in China

Lin Ma and Yang Tang

Centralization and regional development: Evidence from a political hierarchy reform to create cities in china

Shiyu Bo

Valuing primary schools in urban China

Jimmy Chan, Xian Fang, Zhi Wang, Xianhua Zai and Qinghua Zhang

Minimum wage impacts on Han-minority Workers’ wage distribution and inequality in urban china

Anthony Howell

Using purchase restrictions to cool housing markets: A within-market analysis

Craig Somerville, Long Wang and Yang Yang

Tightening belts to buy a home: Consumption responses to rising housing prices in urban China

Andrew Waxman, Yuanning Liang, Shanjun Li, Panle Barwick and Meng Zhao

Land-use regulation and the intensive margin of housing supply

Ya Tan, Zhi Wang and Qinghua Zhang

The role of transportation speed in facilitating high skilled teamwork across cities

Xiaofang Dong, Siqi Zheng and Matthew Kahn

Transition to the property tax in China: A dynamic general equilibrium analysis

Guozhong Zhu and David Dale-Johnson

Does adversity affect long-term financial behaviour? Evidence from China’s rustication programme

Yi Fan

Decentralization, incentives, and local tax enforcement

Junxue Jia, Siying Ding and Yongzheng Liu

Cities in China

Nathaniel Baum-Snow, J. Vernon Henderson and Stuart Rosenthal

Volume 114, issue C, 2019

Neighborhood sorting and the value of public school quality

Gregorio Caetano

Shopping externalities and retail concentration: Evidence from dutch shopping streets

Hans Koster, Ilias Pasidis and Jos van Ommeren

The energy costs of historic preservation

Christian Hilber, Charles Palmer and Edward Pinchbeck

The curious incidence of rent subsidies: Evidence of heterogeneity from administrative data

Mike Brewer, James Browne, Carl Emmerson, Andrew Hood and Robert Joyce

Volume 113, issue C, 2019

Housing booms and local spending

Albert Solé-Ollé and Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal

Do the rich and poor colocate in large cities?

Takatoshi Tabuchi

Tolling roads to improve reliability

Jonathan Hall and Ian Savage

How do trade and communication costs shape the spatial organization of firms?

Toshitaka Gokan, Sergey Kichko and Jacques Thisse

Labor market networks and recovery from mass layoffs: Evidence from the Great Recession period

Judith K. Hellerstein, Mark Kutzbach and David Neumark

Peer effects in employment status: Evidence from housing lotteries

Ayako Kondo and Masahiro Shoji

Volume 112, issue C, 2019

The rise and effects of homeowners associations pp. 1-15

Wyatt Clarke and Matthew Freedman

London calling? Agglomeration economies in literature since 1700 pp. 16-32

Sara Mitchell

The repeat time-on-the-market index pp. 33-49

Paul Carrillo and Benjamin Williams

Can kings create towns that thrive? The long-term implications of new town foundations pp. 50-69

Alexandra Cermeño and Kerstin Enflo

Improved information shock and price dispersion: A natural experiment in the housing market pp. 70-84

Danny Ben-Shahar and Roni Golan

Heterogeneous vertical tax externalities and macroeconomic effects of federal tax changes: The role of fiscal advantage pp. 85-110

Fidel Perez-Sebastian, Ohad Raveh and Yaniv Reingewertz

Do in-kind grants stick? The department of defense 1033 program and local government spending pp. 111-121

Donald Bruce, Celeste K. Carruthers, Matthew Harris, Matthew Murray and Jinseong Park

Spatially-variable property tax and optimal tax composition in congested monocentric cities: George, Pigou, Ramsey and Strotz unified pp. 122-132

Tatsuhito Kono, David Pines and Takahisa Yokoi

Immigrant locations and native residential preferences: Emerging ghettos or new communities? pp. 133-151

Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell and Albert Saiz

Firm organization and productivity across locations pp. 152-168

Grigorios Spanos