Journal of Urban Economics

1974 - 2025

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

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Volume 103, issue C, 2018

School accountability and teacher mobility pp. 1-17

Li Feng, David Figlio and Tim Sass

Autobahns and jobs: A regional study using historical instrumental variables pp. 18-33

Joachim Möller and M. Zierer

International isolation and regional inequality: Evidence from sanctions on North Korea pp. 34-51

Yong Suk Lee

Mortgage debt and entrepreneurship pp. 52-66

Philippe Bracke, Christian Hilber and Olmo Silva

Land use, worker heterogeneity and welfare benefits of public goods pp. 67-82

Coen N. Teulings, Ioulia Ossokina and Henri de Groot

Volume 102, issue C, 2017

The impact of urban public transportation evidence from the Paris region pp. 1-21

Thierry Mayer and Corentin Trevien

The effect of violent crime on economic mobility pp. 22-33

Patrick Sharkey and Gerard Torrats-Espinosa

Persistence in industrial policy impacts: Evidence from Depression-era Mississippi pp. 34-51

Matthew Freedman

Terrorism and the value of proximity to public transportation: Evidence from the 2005 London bombings pp. 52-75

Isabela Manelici

Why has regional income convergence in the U.S. declined? pp. 76-90

Peter Ganong and Daniel Shoag

Racial and ethnic price differentials in the housing market pp. 91-105

Patrick Bayer, Marcus Casey, Fernando Ferreira and Robert McMillan

The effects of driving restrictions on travel behavior evidence from Beijing pp. 106-122

Yizhen Gu, Elizabeth Deakin and Ying Long

Volume 101, issue C, 2017

Recourse and residential mortgages: The case of Nevada pp. 1-13

Wenli Li and Florian Oswald

The agglomeration of American R&D labs pp. 14-26

Kristy Buzard, Gerald Carlino, Robert Hunt, Jake K. Carr and Tony E. Smith

Sorting and agglomeration economies in French economics departments pp. 27-44

Clement Bosquet and Pierre-Philippe Combes

Cost recovery of congested infrastructure under market power pp. 45-56

Erik Verhoef

Transfer taxes and household mobility: Distortion on the housing or labor market? pp. 57-73

Christian Hilber and Teemu Lyytikäinen

Promise scholarship programs as place-making policy: Evidence from school enrollment and housing prices pp. 74-89

Michael LeGower and Randall Walsh

Law enforcement, municipal budgets and spillover effects: Evidence from a quasi-experiment in Italy pp. 90-105

Sergio Galletta

The economics of crowding in rail transit pp. 106-122

André de Palma, Charles Lindsey and Guillaume Monchambert

Volume 100, issue C, 2017

Does quality matter in local consumption amenities? An empirical investigation with Yelp pp. 1-18

Chun Kuang

Paying for priority in school choice: Capitalization effects of charter school admission zones pp. 19-32

Elena Andreyeva and Carlianne Patrick

Selection in initial and return migration: Evidence from moves across Spanish cities pp. 33-53

Jorge De la Roca

Can testing improve student learning? An evaluation of the mathematics diagnostic testing project pp. 54-64

Julian R. Betts, Youjin Hahn and Andrew C. Zau

Bottleneck congestion and residential location of heterogeneous commuters pp. 65-79

Yuki Takayama and Masao Kuwahara

The birth of edge cities in China: Measuring the effects of industrial parks policy pp. 80-103

Siqi Zheng, Weizeng Sun, Jianfeng Wu and Matthew Kahn

Danger zone: Land use and the geography of neighborhood crime pp. 104-119

Tate Twinam

Going to pot? The impact of dispensary closures on crime pp. 120-136

Tom Y. Chang and Mireille Jacobson

The behavioral response to housing transfer taxes: Evidence from a notched change in D.C. policy pp. 137-153

Joel Slemrod, Caroline Weber and Hui Shan

Volume 99, issue C, 2017

Agglomeration: A long-run panel data approach pp. 1-14

W Hanlon and Antonio Miscio

Accountability and yardstick competition in the public provision of education pp. 15-30

Rafael Terra and Enlinson Mattos

Support and opposition to a Pigovian tax: Road pricing with reference-dependent preferences pp. 31-47

Bruno De Borger and Amihai Glazer

Housing demand and neighborhood choice with housing vouchers pp. 48-61

Judy Geyer

Financial literacy: A barrier to home ownership for the young? pp. 62-78

John Gathergood and Jörg Weber

Mortgage (mis)pricing: The case of co-borrowers pp. 79-93

Konstantinos Tzioumis

Nuclear power plant closures and local housing values: Evidence from Fukushima and the German housing market pp. 94-106

Thomas Bauer, Sebastian T. Braun and Michael Kvasnicka

Housing choices and labor income risk pp. 107-119

Thomas Jansson

Homeownership, housing capital gains and self-employment pp. 120-135

John P. Harding and Stuart Rosenthal

Rockets: The housing market effects of a credible terrorist threat pp. 136-147

Yael Elster, Asaf Zussman and Noam Zussman

Estimating the residential land damage of the Fukushima nuclear accident pp. 148-160

Daiji Kawaguchi and Norifumi Yukutake

The impact of clandestine methamphetamine labs on property values: Discovery, decontamination and stigma pp. 161-172

Bern C. Dealy, Brady Horn and Robert Berrens

Cultural dynamics, social mobility and urban segregation pp. 173-187

Emeline Bezin and Fabien Moizeau

Volume 98, issue C, 2017

Urban economics for the developing World: An introduction pp. 1-5

Edward Glaeser and J. Vernon Henderson

Demography, urbanization and development: Rural push, urban pull and…urban push? pp. 6-16

Remi Jedwab, Luc Christiaensen and Marina Gindelsky

What is different about urbanization in rich and poor countries? Cities in Brazil, China, India and the United States pp. 17-49

Juan Chauvin, Edward Glaeser, Yueran Ma and Kristina Tobio

The settlement of the United States, 1800–2000: The long transition towards Gibrat’s law pp. 50-68

Klaus Desmet and Jordan Rappaport

Political favoritism in China’s capital markets and its effect on city sizes pp. 69-87

Ying Chen, J. Vernon Henderson and Wei Cai

Breaking into tradables: Urban form and urban function in a developing city pp. 88-97

Anthony Venables

Travel costs and urban specialization patterns: Evidence from China’s high speed railway system pp. 98-123

Yatang Lin

Locomotives of local growth: The short- and long-term impact of railroads in Sweden pp. 124-138

Thor Berger and Kerstin Enflo

City seeds: Geography and the origins of the European city system pp. 139-157

Maarten Bosker and Eltjo Buringh

Malthus living in a slum: Urban concentration, infrastructure and economic growth pp. 158-173

David Castells-Quintana

Sewers’ diffusion and the decline of mortality: The case of Paris, 1880–1914 pp. 174-186

Lionel Kesztenbaum and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal

Shelter from the storm: Upgrading housing infrastructure in Latin American slums pp. 187-213

Sebastian Galiani, Paul J. Gertler, Raimundo Undurraga, Ryan Cooper, Sebastian Martinez and Adam Ross

The demand for space in China pp. 214-222

Michael Murray and Guoqing Sun

To build above the limit? Implementation of land use regulations in urban China pp. 223-233

Hongbin Cai, Zhi Wang and Qinghua Zhang