OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Regional Science and Urban Economics is 2. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Viewing urban spatial history from tall buildings	116
Roads, transit and spatial patterns of urbanization in São Paulo: Evidence from the second half of the twentieth century	110
Spillover effects from new housing supply	52
Do municipal mergers reduce the cost of waste management? Evidence from Japan	45
European highway networks, transportation costs, and regional income	41
Airbnb and rental markets: Evidence from Berlin	41
Hospital closure in urban and rural areas and patients’ welfare	39
Cities and water quality	36
Editorial Board	35
Firm sorting, clustering, and vertical disintegration: Evidence from China	31
Work-from-home and cities: An elementary spatial model	28
Introduction to the Special Issue: "Urban economics and history"	27
Equal price for equal place? Demand-driven racial discrimination in the housing market	27
Brand loyalty, managerial delegation and position choices: Bertrand versus Cournot competition	24
Educational and gender heterogeneity of the rural-urban earnings premium: New evidence from Norway	24
Empirical behaviour of Anselin et al.’s locally robust LM tests for spatial dependence in a panel data setting	24
Local inequalities of the COVID-19 crisis	24
The virus that devastated tourism: The impact of covid-19 on the housing market	23
Water infrastructure and health in U.S. cities	22
City size, family migration, and gender wage gap: Evidence from rural–urban migrants in China	21
Agglomeration economies in developing countries: A meta-analysis	21
Editorial Board	20
Immigrants' clusters and unequal access to healthcare treatments	20
Estimating housing rent depreciation for inflation adjustments	20
Re-evaluating the urban wage premium: The changing roles of geographical and job transitions for women and men	19

Editorial Board	18
Cumulative impacts in environmental justice: Insights from economics and policy	17
The effects of a FAR regulation in a model of durable building with redevelopment: The case of New York City	17
Location of housing and industry around city centre amenities	17
Biodiversity and population density	16
Finding a better job: The geography of socio-professional mobility during working life	16
Birth dearth and local population decline	16
What if you build it and they don't come? How the ghost of transit past haunts transit present	15
Spatial wage differentials, geographic frictions and the organization of labor within firms	15
Inter-municipal cooperation cloud and tax administrative costs	14
Consumer salience and quality provision in (un)regulated public service markets	14
Decarbonizing passenger transportation in developing countries: Lessons and perspectives1	14
Editorial Board	14
Do local businesses benefit from sports facilities? The case of major league sports stadiums and arenas	14
On the economic geography of an aging society	14
Evaluating the long-run effects of zoning reform on urban development	14
Corrigendum to “Location preferences and slum formation: Evidence from a panel of residence histories” [Reg. Sci. Urban Econ., 97 (November 2022) 103816]	14
The economics of China’s between-city height competition: A regression discontinuity approach	13
Interaction of public and private employment: Evidence from a German government move	13
High-speed rail opening and urban air quality	13
Backward-bending labor supply and urban location	12
Do households value lower density: Theory, evidence, and implications from Washington, DC	12
The effect of the earthquake in Central Italy on the depopulation of the affected territories	12
High-tech clusters, labor demand, and inequality: Evidence from “Made in China 2025”	12
The impact of urban redevelopment for mitigating earthquake damage risk on land values	12
Housing market responses to the mortgage interest deduction	12
The impact of preferential farmland taxation on local public finances	12
The response of regional well-being to place-based policy interventions	12
Information technology and road safety	11
Immigrants and entrepreneurship: A road for talent or just the only road?	11
Editorial Board	11
Learners in cities: Agglomeration and the spatial division of cognition	11
A welfare analysis of a monocentric city model under monopolistic competition with heterogeneous firms and variable elasticity of substitution preference	11
Reducing ethnic discrimination through formal warning: Evidence from two combined field experiments	10
Data sharing and tax enforcement: Evidence from short-term rentals in Denmark	10
The housing market impacts of bicycle-sharing systems	10
Government policy and land price dynamics: A quantitative assessment of China’s factor market reforms	10
Understanding local government debt in China: A regional competition perspective	10
Editorial Board	10
Homeowner associations and city cohesion	9
(In)efficient commuting and migration choices: Theory and policy in an urban search model	9
How local is local development? Evidence from casinos	8
Informal land markets and ethnic kinship in West African cities	8
Persistence and variation of schools as housing amenities	8
Employer-provided parking: Departure time choice, investment decision, and welfare effects	8
Industrialization and urbanization in nineteenth century America	8
Aligning incentives: The effect of mortgage servicing rules on foreclosures and delinquency	8
Teleworking and housing demand	8
Inter-municipal cooperation and tax enforcement capabilities	8
Environmental regulation, local labor market, and skill heterogeneity	7

Local constant-quality housing market liquidity indices	7
Editorial Board	7
Coal busts and urban recovery: Evidence from China	7
Productivity and wage effects of an exogenous improvement in transport infrastructure: Accessibility and the Great Belt Bridge	7
Commuting barriers to low-wage employment	7
Vertical migration externalities	7
Structural transformation and the urban growth shadows: County-level evidence from China, 1990–2020	7
The influence of intergovernmental transfers on local taxes: Evidence from Switzerland	7
Socially optimal land use in a city with central amenities	7
Recreational cannabis dispensary access effects on prescription opioid use and mortality	6
Editorial Board	6
Urban planning policies and the cost of living in large cities	6
Public firms on an international border: A model of spatial price discrimination	6
Cities with forking paths? Agglomeration economies in New Zealand 1976–2018	6
Editorial Board	6
Capital as an anchor of agricultural employment: Evidence from the 1975 frost	6
The relative importance of portable and non-portable agglomeration effects for the urban wage premium	6
Health facility quality peer effects: Are financial incentives necessary?	6
Stuck in traffic: Measuring congestion externalities with negative supply shocks	6
Disamenities of living close to transit tracks: Evidence from Singapore's MRT system	6
Revisiting property tax capitalization	5
Dynamic agglomeration effects of foreigners and natives – The role of experience in high-quality sectors, tasks and establishments	5
Skills and the city in China	5
Federal tax policy and the capitalization of local public goods	5
Gender and racial disparities in altruism in social networks	5
The user cost of housing and the price-rent ratio in Shanghai	5
Editorial Board	5
Editorial Board	5
Real estate prices and land use regulations: Evidence from the Law of Heights in Bogotá	5
Refugees welcome? Understanding the regional heterogeneity of anti-refugee hate crime	5
Editorial Board	5
Energy-efficient investments in housing	5
Quantitative economic geography meets history: Questions, answers and challenges	5
War shocks, migration, and historical spatial development in China	5
Do applications respond to changes in asylum policies in European countries?	5
R&D investments with spillovers and endogenous horizontal differentiation	4
Do grocery food taxes incentivize participation in SNAP?	4
Demographic changes and the housing market	4
Leases over real property	4
Natural disasters and establishment performance: Evidence from the 2011 Rio de Janeiro Landslides	4
Organization & density-related differences in within-firm wage disparities	4
Small things, big impact: The network-mediated spillover effect through a transport connectivity enhancement project	4
The elected official next door	4
Rational cuts? The local impact of closing undersized schools	4
Has the effect of housing wealth on household consumption been overestimated? New evidence on magnitude and allocation	4
The Economic Impact of Public Capital: Evidence from Chinese Prefectures and Firms	4
Geographic and temporal variation in housing filtering rates	4
Complexity and colocation of the college-educated: Sort of complements	4
Estimating the effect of land use regulation on land price: At the kink point of building height limits in Fukuoka	4
The income consequences of a managed retreat	4
Highways and pedestrian deaths in US neighborhoods	4
Does state tax reciprocity affect interstate commuting? Evidence from a natural experiment	4
Immigrants and cities during the age of mass migration	3
Disparities in COVID-19 risk exposure: Evidence from geolocation data	3
Rent-tax substitution and its impact on firms: Evidence from housing purchase limits policy in China	3
Spatial price discrimination in a mixed duopoly input market	3
Information disclosure, search cost, and the housing market	3
Terrorism and political attitudes: Evidence from European social surveys	3
Your room is ready: Tourism and urban revival	3
Editorial Board	3
Urban accounting and welfare in Spain	3
Heterogeneous effects of urban transport infrastructure on population distribution: The role of educational access	3
Voluntary retirement savings in China: A spatial ordered probit approach	3
Do school shootings erode property values?	3
Reexamining lackluster productivity growth in construction	2
Congestion and consolidation: An empirical study of a barge shipping merger	2
Restoring inland prosperity: The impact of the New International Land-Sea Corridor on corporate internationalization and regional wealth gaps	2
Do cities mitigate or exacerbate environmental damages to health?	2
State government saving over the business cycle	2
Monopsony in spatial equilibrium	2
The impact of place-based poverty relief: Evidence from the Federal Promise Zone Program	2
Residential rent externalities of photovoltaic systems: The relevance of view	2
Tax progressivity and mobility costs	2
Ethnicity and health at work during the COVID-19	2
Ideology, intergovernmental transfers, and public health spending: Evidence from South Korea	2
Estimating spatial autoregressions under heteroskedasticity without searching for instruments	2
Experimental evidence on the effects of means-tested public transportation subsidies on travel behavior	2
A consumer surplus, welfare and profit enhancing strategy for improving urban public transport networks	2
The lead-crime hypothesis: A meta-analysis	2
The micro persistence of layouts and design: Quasi-experimental evidence from the United States Housing Corporation	2