Journal of Regional Science

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Regional Science is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
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Migration and the location of MNE activities: Evidence from Italian provinces92
Determinants of tourist employment in Brazilian microregions: A dynamic panel data approach63
Corruption, Government Expenditure and Economic Performance at a Sub‐Regional Level: Evidence From India53
The spatial scope of agglomeration economies in Brazil47
Rediscovering regional science: Positioning the field's evolving location in science and society32
Legal heritage and urban slums30
Local information and the stabilization role of local government: Evidence from a natural experiment in China28
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Home is where the history is: How today's migration in Germany is shaped by regional identity26
Within‐city roads and urban growth25
From agglomeration to dispersion: How does China's noncapital functions' relief affect regional development?24
Access to credit and economic complexity: Evidence from Italian provinces23
Is distance really dying? Transportation and knowledge spillovers21
Regional multipliers across the Italian regions20
Where did it hit harder? Understanding the geography of excess mortality during the COVID‐19 pandemic18
Long‐term decline of regions and the rise of populism: The case of Germany17
Lights out: The economic impacts of Covid‐19 on cities globally16
Highway Construction, Labor Reallocation, and Welfare Gains Under Migration Frictions14
Cultural shock of high‐speed rail: Evidence from social trust14
Capturing Inter and Intra Sectoral Productivity Spillovers in Industrial Filière: A System of Dynamic Spatial Panel Data Models14
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Building bridges of trust: Impact of regional digital financial inclusion on social capital in China13
From the historical Roman road network to modern infrastructure in Italy13
The effect of open space maintenance spending on house prices13
Taxing ride‐sharing: Which neighborhoods pay more?12
COVID‐19 and employment relief programs: A tale of spatially blind policies for a spatially driven pandemic12
Entrepreneurship and Natural Resource Curse on Regional Economic Resilience: Evidence From China12
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Estimating National and Foreign Trade Elasticities Using Generalized Transport Costs11
Unintended distortion of regulating water use: Evidence from China11
A socioeconomic impact assessment of three Italian national parks11
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Does Greater Knowledge Complexity Promote Structural Upgrading? Evidence From Chinese Cities10
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Perturbed cusp catastrophe in a population game: Spatial economics with locational asymmetries9
Digital gravity? Firm birth and relocation patterns of young digital firms in Germany9
Promoting sustainable and high‐quality economic development in China via regional innovation poles9
Local employment multipliers for large publicly subsidized firms: Evidence from a synthetic control approach9
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Electoral consequences of globalization for social democratic parties across European regions9
The task coordination method of intelligence‐alliance innovation team of universities in Western China9
Postcrisis recovery in the regions of Europe: Does institutional quality matter?9
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The drivers of intra‐ and interregional labor mobility over the industry life cycle of the high‐tech sector8
Travel and Regional Development: A Quantitative Analysis of China8
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Geographic Differences in the Effect of Immigration on the Native Wage Distribution: Evidence from Italian Provinces7
The Bright Side of Breaking Up: How Territorial Fragmentation Increases Political Engagement in Local Communities7
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Institutions and the uneven geography of the first wave of the COVID‐19 pandemic7
Premature exit from and delayed entrance into the less developed status: An empirical appraisal of the structural funds allocation criterion7
Regional borders, local unemployment, and life satisfaction7
The effects of robots on internal migration: Evidence from China7
Cities in a pandemic: Evidence from China7
Inter‐ and intraregional inequality in a spatial economy6
Regional disparities, transmission channels and country's economic growth6
Do municipal unions improve cost efficiency for the social function? A quasi‐experimental endogenous stochastic frontier approach6
Do enterprise zones promote local business development? Evidence from Vietnam6
Innovation in Malmö after the Öresund Bridge6
The Long‐term Socioeconomic Impacts of Renewable Energy Deployment: Lessons From Case Studies in European Rural Regions6
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Does road accessibility to cities support rural population growth? Evidence for Portugal between 1991 and 20116
Comparing city size distributions: Gridded population versus nighttime lights6
Looking ahead in anger: The effects of foreign migration on youth resentment in England6
Racing to Zipf's law: Race and metropolitan population size 1910–20206
Rationality test in the housing market: Project‐level evidence from China6
Socioeconomic impacts of Russian invasion of Ukraine: A multiregional assessment for Europe5
Who partners up? Homogamy and income inequality in New Zealand cities5
Learning from deregulation: The asymmetric impact of lockdown and reopening on risky behavior during COVID‐195
The empirical evidence of digital trends in more disadvantaged European Union regions in terms of income and population density5
Trust as a catalyst for regional growth in a decentralized Europe: The interplay between informal and formal institutions in driving economic growth5
Who Bears the Brunt of Disruptive Innovation? The Effect of Grocery E‐Commerce on Local Retail Competitors5
Barriers to urban spatial development: Evidence from the 2010–2011 Christchurch earthquakes5
Be my (little) partner?!—Universities' role in regional innovation systems when large firms are rare4
The gains from changes in internal trade costs: A quantitative analysis of China4
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The impact of the spatial population distribution on economic growth: Evidence from the United States4
Local economic growth and local government investment in parks and recreation, or five cheese pizzas for $2.6 million4
Correction to Employment opportunities, wages and interregional migration in Sweden 1970–19894
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Vive le Tour!? Estimating the place‐based benefits of hosting the Tour de France4
The Mafia's Economic Grip: Firm Efficiency and a Composite Indicator of Organized Crime4
Border enforcement and the sorting and commuting patterns of Hispanics4
Temperature fluctuations, climate uncertainty, and financing hindrance4
Growth: From microorganisms to megacitiesSmil, V.Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2019. 664+xxvpp., ISBN: 978‐0‐262‐04283‐3. USD 43.92 (hb).4
Universities in inclusive regional innovation systems: Academic engagement and uneven knowledge use in Brazil4
The spatial distribution of population in Spain: An anomaly in European perspective3
Too close for comfort? Microgeography of agglomeration economies in the United Kingdom3
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Climate change and commercial property markets3
Too late to buy a home? School redistricting and the timing and extent of capitalization3
In search of key performance indicators of regional competitiveness in the European Union3
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Pollution effects of place‐based policy: Evidence from China's development‐zone program3
Measuring US regional economic uncertainty3
The effect of short‐term rentals on local consumption amenities: Evidence from Madrid3
Cleanliness is next to income: The impact of COVID‐19 on short‐term rentals3
Effect of Social Interactions and Digital Appropriation in the Individual Labor Participation in a Developing Country2
311 calls and neighborhood attributes: A panel study of housing prices2
Regional aspects of immigration‐related changes in political preferences2
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Decomposing the gender reservation wage gap in Italy: A regional perspective2
What contributes to rising inequality in large cities?2
Mafia doesn't live here anymore: Antimafia policies and housing prices2
The impact of the Coronavirus pandemic on New York City real estate: First evidence2
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City subcenter as a regional development policy: Impact on the property market2
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The state of economics after the Lehman collapseBasu, K., Rosenblatt, D., and Sepúlveda, C. (Eds.), (2020). The state of economics, the state of the world. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press. 552pp. ISBN: 978‐02
Do Neighborhoods Matter for Individual Decision‐Making? The Case of COVID‐19 Vaccination in Sweden2
Place‐based tax incentives and minority employment: Evidence from the New Market Tax Credit Program2
Financial development and growth in European regions1
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Amazon deforestation and CO2 emissions: A macroeconomic approach using the GVAR1
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Historical episodes and their legacies across space: A famous case revisited1
The opioid crisis and economic distress: Consequences for population change1
Do what we did last year, but do not stray too far from the pack: A behavioral public finance approach to municipal cash reserves1
Geographic earnings inequality by race, 1960–20161
Local labor market effects of offshoring: Evidence from the US Trade Adjustment Assistance program1
Migration and the European City: Social and Cultural Perspectives from Early Modernity to the Present. C.Cornelissen, B.Kümin, & M.Rospocher (eds.). 2022. De Gruyter Oldenbourg. 251 pages. ISBN:‎ 1
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What kind of region reaps the benefits of a currency union?1
Information transparency, monitoring, and incentives under decentralization: Evidence from China's fiscal reform of “province managing county”1
Infrastructure and income inequality: An application to the Brazilian case using hierarchical spatial autoregressive models1
Climate risk and commercial mortgage delinquency1
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Network versus spatial proximity and firm innovation: The case of the R&D service sector1
City‐chief turnover and place‐based policy change: Evidence from China1
Why do students leave school early in OECD countries? The role of regional labor markets and school policies1
Ethnicity and UK graduate migration: An identity economics approach1
Geography and regional economic growth: The high cost of deviating from nature1
Income Inequality and National Strategy for Inner Areas: Does Location Matter?1
The effect of labor‐market differentials on interregional migration in Spain: A meta‐regression analysis1
The impact of government support on rural grocery stores—A regression discontinuity approach1
Natural disasters, firm survival, and growth: Evidence from the Ise Bay Typhoon, Japan1
The Uneven Effect of Airbnb on the Housing Market: Evidence Across and Within Italian Cities1
The geography of acquisitions and greenfield investments: Firm heterogeneity and regional institutional conditions1
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Geographic Proximity to the European Commission and the Likelihood to Be Granted With a Subsidy From the EU1
Weather Conditions and Daily Commuting1
Does size matter? Evidence from municipal splits1
The impact of sports stadiums on localized commercial activity: Evidence from a Business Improvement District1
Gender differences in quality of life and preferences for location‐specific amenities across cities1
Impact of Climate Policy on Labor Earnings: Evidence From Low‐Carbon City Pilot Policy in China1
Voting on urban land development1
Gaining in impacts by leveraging the policy mix: Evidence from the European Cohesion Policy in more developed regions1
The Japanese textile sector and the influenza pandemic of 1918–19201
The impact of home rule on municipal boundary and fiscal expansion: Evidence from Texas1
Divided we fall? The effect of manufacturing decline on the social capital of US communities1
Assessing the environmental performance of green mortgage‐backed securities1
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