Regional Science and Urban Economics

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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
European highway networks, transportation costs, and regional income130
Hospital closure in urban and rural areas and patients’ welfare112
Viewing urban spatial history from tall buildings102
Airbnb and rental markets: Evidence from Berlin47
Roads, transit and spatial patterns of urbanization in São Paulo: Evidence from the second half of the twentieth century47
Do municipal mergers reduce the cost of waste management? Evidence from Japan41
Spillover effects from new housing supply39
Cities and water quality38
Work-from-home and cities: An elementary spatial model38
Editorial Board36
Firm sorting, clustering, and vertical disintegration: Evidence from China33
Equal price for equal place? Demand-driven racial discrimination in the housing market32
Immigrants' clusters and unequal access to healthcare treatments30
Brand loyalty, managerial delegation and position choices: Bertrand versus Cournot competition29
City size, family migration, and gender wage gap: Evidence from rural–urban migrants in China25
The virus that devastated tourism: The impact of covid-19 on the housing market24
Water infrastructure and health in U.S. cities24
Local inequalities of the COVID-19 crisis24
Empirical behaviour of Anselin et al.’s locally robust LM tests for spatial dependence in a panel data setting24
Introduction to the Special Issue: "Urban economics and history"24
Educational and gender heterogeneity of the rural-urban earnings premium: New evidence from Norway23
Agglomeration economies in developing countries: A meta-analysis23
Cumulative impacts in environmental justice: Insights from economics and policy23
Editorial Board22
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The effects of a FAR regulation in a model of durable building with redevelopment: The case of New York City21
Introduction to special issue on rural-urban migration in honor of Harris and Todaro20
Re-evaluating the urban wage premium: The changing roles of geographical and job transitions for women and men20
Finding a better job: The geography of socio-professional mobility during working life19
Estimating housing rent depreciation for inflation adjustments19
Biodiversity and population density18
Location of housing and industry around city centre amenities18
Birth dearth and local population decline18
Spatial wage differentials, geographic frictions and the organization of labor within firms16
What if you build it and they don't come? How the ghost of transit past haunts transit present16
Inter-municipal cooperation cloud and tax administrative costs15
Do local businesses benefit from sports facilities? The case of major league sports stadiums and arenas15
Consumer salience and quality provision in (un)regulated public service markets15
On the economic geography of an aging society15
Evaluating the long-run effects of zoning reform on urban development15
The economics of China’s between-city height competition: A regression discontinuity approach14
Interaction of public and private employment: Evidence from a German government move14
Corrigendum to “Location preferences and slum formation: Evidence from a panel of residence histories” [Reg. Sci. Urban Econ., 97 (November 2022) 103816]14
High-speed rail opening and urban air quality14
Decarbonizing passenger transportation in developing countries: Lessons and perspectives114
Rural-urban migration and house prices in China13
Do households value lower density: Theory, evidence, and implications from Washington, DC13
The impact of urban redevelopment for mitigating earthquake damage risk on land values13
The effect of the earthquake in Central Italy on the depopulation of the affected territories13
High-tech clusters, labor demand, and inequality: Evidence from “Made in China 2025”13
The impact of preferential farmland taxation on local public finances12
Editorial Board12
Learners in cities: Agglomeration and the spatial division of cognition12
Backward-bending labor supply and urban location12
Immigrants and entrepreneurship: A road for talent or just the only road?12
The response of regional well-being to place-based policy interventions12
Editorial Board12
Data sharing and tax enforcement: Evidence from short-term rentals in Denmark12
Information technology and road safety11
Government policy and land price dynamics: A quantitative assessment of China’s factor market reforms11
Understanding local government debt in China: A regional competition perspective11
The housing market impacts of bicycle-sharing systems10
Aligning incentives: The effect of mortgage servicing rules on foreclosures and delinquency10
Reducing ethnic discrimination through formal warning: Evidence from two combined field experiments10
Homeowner associations and city cohesion10
(In)efficient commuting and migration choices: Theory and policy in an urban search model10
Industrialization and urbanization in nineteenth century America9
Persistence and variation of schools as housing amenities9
Industrial structure in urban accounting9
Employer-provided parking: Departure time choice, investment decision, and welfare effects9
Productivity and wage effects of an exogenous improvement in transport infrastructure: Accessibility and the Great Belt Bridge9
Teleworking and housing demand9
How local is local development? Evidence from casinos9
Environmental regulation, local labor market, and skill heterogeneity8
Local constant-quality housing market liquidity indices8
Inter-municipal cooperation and tax enforcement capabilities8
The influence of intergovernmental transfers on local taxes: Evidence from Switzerland8
Structural transformation and the urban growth shadows: County-level evidence from China, 1990–20208
Informal land markets and ethnic kinship in West African cities8
Commuting barriers to low-wage employment8
Rural-urban migration in developing countries: Lessons from the literature7
Editorial Board7
Vertical migration externalities7
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Socially optimal land use in a city with central amenities7
Recreational cannabis dispensary access effects on prescription opioid use and mortality7
Coal busts and urban recovery: Evidence from China7
Cities with forking paths? Agglomeration economies in New Zealand 1976–20187
The relative importance of portable and non-portable agglomeration effects for the urban wage premium7
Health facility quality peer effects: Are financial incentives necessary?6
Public firms on an international border: A model of spatial price discrimination6
The user cost of housing and the price-rent ratio in Shanghai6
Stuck in traffic: Measuring congestion externalities with negative supply shocks6
Disamenities of living close to transit tracks: Evidence from Singapore's MRT system6
Revisiting property tax capitalization6
Capital as an anchor of agricultural employment: Evidence from the 1975 frost6
Do applications respond to changes in asylum policies in European countries?6
Urban planning policies and the cost of living in large cities6
Editorial Board6
Editorial Board6
Refugees welcome? Understanding the regional heterogeneity of anti-refugee hate crime6
Quantitative economic geography meets history: Questions, answers and challenges5
Energy-efficient investments in housing5
War shocks, migration, and historical spatial development in China5
Editorial Board5
Rational cuts? The local impact of closing undersized schools5
Do grocery food taxes incentivize participation in SNAP?5
R&D investments with spillovers and endogenous horizontal differentiation5
Dynamic agglomeration effects of foreigners and natives – The role of experience in high-quality sectors, tasks and establishments5
Skills and the city in China5
Rural-urban migration with remittances and welfare analysis5
Federal tax policy and the capitalization of local public goods5
The labour market impacts of female internal migration: Evidence from the end of Apartheid5
The elected official next door5
Gender and racial disparities in altruism in social networks5
Editorial Board5
Real estate prices and land use regulations: Evidence from the Law of Heights in Bogotá4
Natural disasters and establishment performance: Evidence from the 2011 Rio de Janeiro Landslides4
Leases over real property4
Your room is ready: Tourism and urban revival4
Organization & density-related differences in within-firm wage disparities4
The income consequences of a managed retreat4
Small things, big impact: The network-mediated spillover effect through a transport connectivity enhancement project4
The Economic Impact of Public Capital: Evidence from Chinese Prefectures and Firms4
Geographic and temporal variation in housing filtering rates4
Does state tax reciprocity affect interstate commuting? Evidence from a natural experiment4
Demographic changes and the housing market4
Estimating the effect of land use regulation on land price: At the kink point of building height limits in Fukuoka4
Complexity and colocation of the college-educated: Sort of complements4
Has the effect of housing wealth on household consumption been overestimated? New evidence on magnitude and allocation4
Highways and pedestrian deaths in US neighborhoods4
Disparities in COVID-19 risk exposure: Evidence from geolocation data4
Residential rent externalities of photovoltaic systems: The relevance of view3
Reexamining lackluster productivity growth in construction3
Do school shootings erode property values?3
Terrorism and political attitudes: Evidence from European social surveys3
Rent-tax substitution and its impact on firms: Evidence from housing purchase limits policy in China3
Editorial Board3
Congestion and consolidation: An empirical study of a barge shipping merger3
Estimating spatial autoregressions under heteroskedasticity without searching for instruments3
Information disclosure, search cost, and the housing market3
Voluntary retirement savings in China: A spatial ordered probit approach3
Heterogeneous effects of urban transport infrastructure on population distribution: The role of educational access3
Experimental evidence on the effects of means-tested public transportation subsidies on travel behavior3
Ethnicity and health at work during the COVID-193
Immigrants and cities during the age of mass migration3
Urban accounting and welfare in Spain3
Spatial price discrimination in a mixed duopoly input market3
Ideology, intergovernmental transfers, and public health spending: Evidence from South Korea2
Monopsony in spatial equilibrium2
The lead-crime hypothesis: A meta-analysis2
Restoring inland prosperity: The impact of the New International Land-Sea Corridor on corporate internationalization and regional wealth gaps2
The impact of place-based poverty relief: Evidence from the Federal Promise Zone Program2
Tax progressivity and mobility costs2
State government saving over the business cycle2
150 years of the geography of innovation2
Do cities mitigate or exacerbate environmental damages to health?2
A consumer surplus, welfare and profit enhancing strategy for improving urban public transport networks2
The micro persistence of layouts and design: Quasi-experimental evidence from the United States Housing Corporation2
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