OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Regional Science and Urban Economics is 3. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	111
Hospital closure in urban and rural areas and patients’ welfare	97
European highway networks, transportation costs, and regional income	92
Do municipal mergers reduce the cost of waste management? Evidence from Japan	45
Roads, transit and spatial patterns of urbanization in São Paulo: Evidence from the second half of the twentieth century	38
Spillover effects from new housing supply	36
Airbnb and rental markets: Evidence from Berlin	36
Viewing urban spatial history from tall buildings	36
Educational and gender heterogeneity of the rural-urban earnings premium: New evidence from Norway	35
Introduction to the Special Issue: "Urban economics and history"	35
Water infrastructure and health in U.S. cities	33
Local inequalities of the COVID-19 crisis	31
Editorial Board	30
Firm sorting, clustering, and vertical disintegration: Evidence from China	29
Equal price for equal place? Demand-driven racial discrimination in the housing market	25
Work-from-home and cities: An elementary spatial model	24
Immigrants' clusters and unequal access to healthcare treatments	23
Brand loyalty, managerial delegation and position choices: Bertrand versus Cournot competition	23
Cities and water quality	21
Empirical behaviour of Anselin et al.’s locally robust LM tests for spatial dependence in a panel data setting	21
City size, family migration, and gender wage gap: Evidence from rural–urban migrants in China	21
The virus that devastated tourism: The impact of covid-19 on the housing market	20
Agglomeration economies in developing countries: A meta-analysis	20
Re-evaluating the urban wage premium: The changing roles of geographical and job transitions for women and men	20
The effects of a FAR regulation in a model of durable building with redevelopment: The case of New York City	19

Estimating housing rent depreciation for inflation adjustments	19
Introduction to special issue on rural-urban migration in honor of Harris and Todaro	18
Editorial Board	17
Editorial Board	17
Cumulative impacts in environmental justice: Insights from economics and policy	16
What if you build it and they don't come? How the ghost of transit past haunts transit present	16
Location of housing and industry around city centre amenities	16
Decarbonizing passenger transportation in developing countries: Lessons and perspectives1	15
On the economic geography of an aging society	15
Evaluating the long-run effects of zoning reform on urban development	15
Consumer salience and quality provision in (un)regulated public service markets	15
Inter-municipal cooperation cloud and tax administrative costs	14
Do local businesses benefit from sports facilities? The case of major league sports stadiums and arenas	14
Backward-bending labor supply and urban location	13
The effectiveness of job creation tax credits	13
Interaction of public and private employment: Evidence from a German government move	13
Corrigendum to “Location preferences and slum formation: Evidence from a panel of residence histories” [Reg. Sci. Urban Econ., 97 (November 2022) 103816]	13
The economics of China’s between-city height competition: A regression discontinuity approach	13
Do households value lower density: Theory, evidence, and implications from Washington, DC	12
The impact of preferential farmland taxation on local public finances	12
The effect of the earthquake in Central Italy on the depopulation of the affected territories	12
Rural-urban migration and house prices in China	12
Learners in cities: Agglomeration and the spatial division of cognition	11
Data sharing and tax enforcement: Evidence from short-term rentals in Denmark	11
Immigrants and entrepreneurship: A road for talent or just the only road?	11
Government policy and land price dynamics: A quantitative assessment of China’s factor market reforms	11
The response of regional well-being to place-based policy interventions	11
Editorial Board	11
(In)efficient commuting and migration choices: Theory and policy in an urban search model	10
Reducing ethnic discrimination through formal warning: Evidence from two combined field experiments	10
Persistence and variation of schools as housing amenities	10
Homeowner associations and city cohesion	10
Employer-provided parking: Departure time choice, investment decision, and welfare effects	10
Understanding local government debt in China: A regional competition perspective	10
Industrial structure in urban accounting	10
Aligning incentives: The effect of mortgage servicing rules on foreclosures and delinquency	10
Industrialization and urbanization in nineteenth century America	10
Teleworking and housing demand	9
Income segregation's impact on local public expenditures: Evidence from municipalities and school districts, 1980–2010	9
Local constant-quality housing market liquidity indices	9
The housing market impacts of bicycle-sharing systems	9
Informal land markets and ethnic kinship in West African cities	9
Coal busts and urban recovery: Evidence from China	8
Environmental regulation, local labor market, and skill heterogeneity	8
Editorial Board	8
Commuting barriers to low-wage employment	8
Vertical migration externalities	8
Inter-municipal cooperation and tax enforcement capabilities	8
The relative importance of portable and non-portable agglomeration effects for the urban wage premium	7
Editorial Board	7

Editorial Board	7
Health facility quality peer effects: Are financial incentives necessary?	7
Public firms on an international border: A model of spatial price discrimination	7
Cities with forking paths? Agglomeration economies in New Zealand 1976–2018	7
Recreational cannabis dispensary access effects on prescription opioid use and mortality	7
Urban planning policies and the cost of living in large cities	7
Capital as an anchor of agricultural employment: Evidence from the 1975 frost	7
Disamenities of living close to transit tracks: Evidence from Singapore's MRT system	7
Rural-urban migration in developing countries: Lessons from the literature	7
Stuck in traffic: Measuring congestion externalities with negative supply shocks	7
Sorting based on urban heritage and income: Evidence from the Amsterdam metropolitan area	7
Revisiting property tax capitalization	7
The user cost of housing and the price-rent ratio in Shanghai	6
Do applications respond to changes in asylum policies in European countries?	6
Skills and the city in China	6
Refugees welcome? Understanding the regional heterogeneity of anti-refugee hate crime	6
Dynamic agglomeration effects of foreigners and natives – The role of experience in high-quality sectors, tasks and establishments	6
Editorial Board	6
Has the effect of housing wealth on household consumption been overestimated? New evidence on magnitude and allocation	5
Quantitative economic geography meets history: Questions, answers and challenges	5
Rural-urban migration with remittances and welfare analysis	5
Energy-efficient investments in housing	5
Real estate prices and land use regulations: Evidence from the Law of Heights in Bogotá	5
Editorial Board	5
The labour market impacts of female internal migration: Evidence from the end of Apartheid	5
The Economic Impact of Public Capital: Evidence from Chinese Prefectures and Firms	5
War shocks, migration, and historical spatial development in China	5
Gender and racial disparities in altruism in social networks	5
Rational cuts? The local impact of closing undersized schools	5
Do grocery food taxes incentivize participation in SNAP?	5
Estimating the effect of land use regulation on land price: At the kink point of building height limits in Fukuoka	5
The income consequences of a managed retreat	5
Editorial Board	5
The elected official next door	5
Small things, big impact: The network-mediated spillover effect through a transport connectivity enhancement project	5
R&D investments with spillovers and endogenous horizontal differentiation	5
Complexity and colocation of the college-educated: Sort of complements	4
Demographic changes and the housing market	4
Leases over real property	4
Does state tax reciprocity affect interstate commuting? Evidence from a natural experiment	4
Highways and pedestrian deaths in US neighborhoods	4
Immigrants and cities during the age of mass migration	4
Heterogeneous effects of urban transport infrastructure on population distribution: The role of educational access	4
Disparities in COVID-19 risk exposure: Evidence from geolocation data	4
Can information help Lakisha and Jamal find housing? Evidence from a low-cost online experiment of landlords	4
Natural disasters and establishment performance: Evidence from the 2011 Rio de Janeiro Landslides	4
Geographic and temporal variation in housing filtering rates	4
Rent-tax substitution and its impact on firms: Evidence from housing purchase limits policy in China	4
Organization & density-related differences in within-firm wage disparities	4
Reexamining lackluster productivity growth in construction	3
Ethnicity and health at work during the COVID-19	3
Your room is ready: Tourism and urban revival	3
Editorial Board	3
Congestion and consolidation: An empirical study of a barge shipping merger	3
Monopsony in spatial equilibrium	3
The impact of place-based poverty relief: Evidence from the Federal Promise Zone Program	3
Do cities mitigate or exacerbate environmental damages to health?	3
Terrorism and political attitudes: Evidence from European social surveys	3
Spatial price discrimination in a mixed duopoly input market	3
Estimating spatial autoregressions under heteroskedasticity without searching for instruments	3
Ideology, intergovernmental transfers, and public health spending: Evidence from South Korea	3
A consumer surplus, welfare and profit enhancing strategy for improving urban public transport networks	3
Do school shootings erode property values?	3
Voluntary retirement savings in China: A spatial ordered probit approach	3
Experimental evidence on the effects of means-tested public transportation subsidies on travel behavior	3
The lead-crime hypothesis: A meta-analysis	3