Journal of Urban Economics

1974 - 2025

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

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Volume 111, issue C, 2019

About the origin of cities pp. 1-13

André de Palma, Yorgos Y. Papageorgiou, Jacques Thisse and Philip Ushchev

Re-evaluating the impact of immigration on the U.S. rental housing market pp. 14-34

Jamie Sharpe

There Is No Free House pp. 35-52

Nathalie Picarelli

Relocation of public sector workers: Evaluating a place-based policy pp. 53-75

Giulia Faggio

Wage inequality and the location of cities pp. 76-92

Farid Farrokhi and David Jinkins

The economic effects of density: A synthesis pp. 93-107

Gabriel Ahlfeldt and Elisabetta Pietrostefani

Putting America to work, where? Evidence on the effectiveness of infrastructure construction as a locally targeted employment policy pp. 108-131

Andrew Garin

The influence of contract prices and relationships on appraisal bias pp. 132-143

Michael Eriksen, Hamilton B. Fout, Mark Palim and Eric Rosenblatt

Volume 110, issue C, 2019

Do more eyes on the street reduce Crime? Evidence from Chicago's safe passage program pp. 1-25

Daniel McMillen, Ignacio Sarmiento-Barbieri and Ruchi Singh

Why does birthplace matter so much? pp. 26-34

Clement Bosquet and Henry Overman

New road infrastructure: The effects on firms pp. 35-50

Stephen Gibbons, Teemu Lyytikäinen, Henry Overman and Rosa Sanchis-Guarner

Do neighbourhood renewal programs reduce crime rates? Evidence from England pp. 51-69

José M. Alonso, Rhys Andrews and Vanesa Jorda

Long-run net distributionary effects of federal disaster insurance: The case of Hurricane Katrina pp. 70-88

Zachary Bleemer and Wilbert van der Klaauw

Do institutions determine economic Geography? Evidence from the concentration of foreign suppliers pp. 89-101

Fariha Kamal and Asha Sundaram

The optimal distribution of population across cities pp. 102-113

David Albouy, Kristian Behrens, Frederic Robert-Nicoud and Nathan Seegert

Volume 109, issue C, 2019

Comparative advantage, agglomeration economies and trade costs pp. 1-13

Michael Pflüger and Takatoshi Tabuchi

Does grade configuration matter? Effects of school reorganisation on pupils’ educational experience pp. 14-26

Helena Holmlund and Anders Böhlmark

A tale of two tails: Commuting and the fuel price response in driving pp. 27-40

Kenneth Gillingham and Anders Munk-Nielsen

The role of the housing market in workers′ resilience to job displacement after firm bankruptcy pp. 41-65

Jordy Meekes and Wolter H.J. Hassink

Estimating the marginal willingness to pay function without instrumental variables pp. 66-83

Kelly Bishop and Christopher Timmins

Volume 108, issue C, 2018

Potential crime risk and housing market responses pp. 1-17

Seonghoon Kim and Kwan Ok Lee

Residential segregation, discrimination, and African-American theater entry during Jim Crow pp. 18-35

Ricard Gil and Justin Marion

Is Uber a substitute or complement for public transit? pp. 36-50

Jonathan Hall, Craig Palsson and Joseph Price

Give credit where? The incidence of child care tax credits pp. 51-71

Luke P. Rodgers

The role of price spillovers in the American housing boom pp. 72-84

Anthony DeFusco, Wenjie Ding, Fernando Ferreira and Joseph Gyourko

Subways and urban growth: Evidence from earth pp. 85-106

Marco Gonzalez-Navarro and Matthew Turner

What happens when you give money to panhandlers? The case of downtown Manhattan pp. 107-123

Gwendolyn Dordick, Brendan O'Flaherty, Jakob Brounstein, Srishti Sinha and Jungsoo Yoo

The mobility of displaced workers: How the local industry mix affects job search pp. 124-140

Frank Neffke, Anne Otto and Cesar Hidalgo

Race-specific urban wage premia and the black-white wage gap pp. 141-153

Elizabeth Ananat, Shihe Fu and Stephen Ross

Crime and private investment in urban neighborhoods pp. 154-169

Johanna Lacoe, Raphael Bostic and Arthur Acolin

Urban form and driving: Evidence from US cities pp. 170-191

Gilles Duranton and Matthew Turner

Volume 107, issue C, 2018

Globalization and the skilled city pp. 1-30

Andrei V. Potlogea

Partial fiscal decentralization reforms and educational outcomes: A difference-in-differences analysis for Spain pp. 31-46

Paula Salinas and Albert Solé-Ollé

Inter-municipal cooperation and local taxation pp. 47-64

Marie-Laure Breuillé, Pascale Duran-Vigneron and Anne-Laure Samson

Land-use regulations, property values, and rents: Decomposing the effects of the California Coastal Act pp. 65-78

Christopher Severen and Andrew J. Plantinga

Community cohesion and assimilation equilibria pp. 79-88

Oded Stark, Marcin Jakubek and Krzysztof Szczygielski

Residential vertical rent curves pp. 89-100

Jayson Danton and Alexander Himbert

Housing productivity and the social cost of land-use restrictions pp. 101-120

David Albouy and Gabriel Ehrlich

Does federal contracting spur development? Federal contracts, income, output, and jobs in US cities pp. 121-135

Michiel Gerritse and Andrés Rodríguez-Pose

Volume 106, issue C, 2018

Why do industries coagglomerate? How Marshallian externalities differ by industry and have evolved over time pp. 1-26

Dario Diodato, Frank Neffke and O’Clery, Neave

Dynamic responses to labor demand shocks: Evidence from the financial industry in Delaware pp. 27-45

Russell Weinstein

Strategic public policy around population thresholds pp. 46-58

Kristof De Witte, Benny Geys and Nanna Lauritz Schönhage

Beyond spending levels: Revenue uncertainty and the performance of local governments pp. 59-80

Stéphane Lavertu and Travis St. Clair

Rising sea levels and sinking property values: Hurricane Sandy and New York’s housing market pp. 81-100

Francesc Ortega and Süleyman Taṣpınar

The vertical city: Rent gradients, spatial structure, and agglomeration economies pp. 101-122

Crocker H. Liu, Stuart Rosenthal and William Strange

Volume 105, issue C, 2018

How does grade configuration impact student achievement in elementary and middle school grades? pp. 1-19

Kai Hong, Ron Zimmer and John Engberg

Zoning and the economic geography of cities pp. 20-39

Allison Shertzer, Tate Twinam and Randall Walsh

Vickrey meets Alonso: Commute scheduling and congestion in a monocentric city pp. 40-53

Mogens Fosgerau, Jinwon Kim and Abhishek Ranjan

U.S. metropolitan house price dynamics pp. 54-69

Elias Oikarinen, Steven Bourassa, Martin Hoesli and Janne Engblom

Does fiscal oversight matter? pp. 70-87

Désirée Christofzik and Sebastian Kessing

When Hotelling meets Vickrey. Service timing and spatial asymmetry in the airline industry pp. 88-106

André de Palma, Carlos Ordás Criado and Laingo Randrianarisoa

Housing markets with endogenous search: Theory and implications pp. 107-120

Joseph Williams

Density economies and transport geography: Evidence from the container shipping industry pp. 121-132

Hangtian Xu and Hidekazu Itoh

The political economy of cordon tolls pp. 133-148

Bruno De Borger and Antonio Russo

A long-term evaluation of the first generation of French urban enterprise zones pp. 149-161

Pauline Givord, Simon Quantin and Corentin Trevien

Trade and towns: Heterogeneous adjustment to a border shock pp. 162-175

Marius Brülhart, Celine Carrere and Frederic Robert-Nicoud

Who's holding out? An experimental study of the benefits and burdens of eminent domain pp. 176-185

Abel Winn and Matthew W. McCarter