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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board99
Hospital closure in urban and rural areas and patients’ welfare91
Spillover effects from new housing supply85
Viewing urban spatial history from tall buildings61
Airbnb and rental markets: Evidence from Berlin38
Do municipal mergers reduce the cost of waste management? Evidence from Japan35
European highway networks, transportation costs, and regional income35
Roads, transit and spatial patterns of urbanization in São Paulo: Evidence from the second half of the twentieth century35
Introduction to the Special Issue: "Urban economics and history"34
Educational and gender heterogeneity of the rural-urban earnings premium: New evidence from Norway33
Firm sorting, clustering, and vertical disintegration: Evidence from China32
Editorial Board32
Equal price for equal place? Demand-driven racial discrimination in the housing market30
Work-from-home and cities: An elementary spatial model29
Brand loyalty, managerial delegation and position choices: Bertrand versus Cournot competition27
Immigrants' clusters and unequal access to healthcare treatments27
City size, family migration, and gender wage gap: Evidence from rural–urban migrants in China25
Agglomeration economies in developing countries: A meta-analysis21
Empirical behaviour of Anselin et al.’s locally robust LM tests for spatial dependence in a panel data setting21
Water infrastructure and health in U.S. cities21
Cities and water quality20
Local inequalities of the COVID-19 crisis20
The virus that devastated tourism: The impact of covid-19 on the housing market20
Re-evaluating the urban wage premium: The changing roles of geographical and job transitions for women and men19
Estimating housing rent depreciation for inflation adjustments19
Cumulative impacts in environmental justice: Insights from economics and policy19
The effects of a FAR regulation in a model of durable building with redevelopment: The case of New York City18
Introduction to special issue on rural-urban migration in honor of Harris and Todaro17
Editorial Board16
Location of housing and industry around city centre amenities16
Editorial Board16
The prices of residential land in German counties15
Evaluating the long-run effects of zoning reform on urban development14
Inter-municipal cooperation cloud and tax administrative costs14
What if you build it and they don't come? How the ghost of transit past haunts transit present14
Consumer salience and quality provision in (un)regulated public service markets13
Do local businesses benefit from sports facilities? The case of major league sports stadiums and arenas13
On the economic geography of an aging society13
Decarbonizing passenger transportation in developing countries: Lessons and perspectives113
The economics of China’s between-city height competition: A regression discontinuity approach12
The carbon ‘carprint’ of urbanization: New evidence from French cities12
The effectiveness of job creation tax credits12
Corrigendum to “Location preferences and slum formation: Evidence from a panel of residence histories” [Reg. Sci. Urban Econ., 97 (November 2022) 103816]12
Property tax capitalization, a case study of Dallas County11
The effect of the earthquake in Central Italy on the depopulation of the affected territories11
Do households value lower density: Theory, evidence, and implications from Washington, DC11
The response of regional well-being to place-based policy interventions11
Backward-bending labor supply and urban location11
The impact of preferential farmland taxation on local public finances11
Interaction of public and private employment: Evidence from a German government move11
Editorial Board10
Data sharing and tax enforcement: Evidence from short-term rentals in Denmark10
Industrial structure in urban accounting10
Rural-urban migration and house prices in China10
Government policy and land price dynamics: A quantitative assessment of China’s factor market reforms10
Immigrants and entrepreneurship: A road for talent or just the only road?10
Learners in cities: Agglomeration and the spatial division of cognition10
Understanding local government debt in China: A regional competition perspective10
Persistence and variation of schools as housing amenities9
Homeowner associations and city cohesion9
Reducing ethnic discrimination through formal warning: Evidence from two combined field experiments9
(In)efficient commuting and migration choices: Theory and policy in an urban search model9
The housing market impacts of bicycle-sharing systems9
Employer-provided parking: Departure time choice, investment decision, and welfare effects9
Aligning incentives: The effect of mortgage servicing rules on foreclosures and delinquency9
Commuting barriers to low-wage employment8
“Ghost cities” versus boom towns: Do China's high-speed rail new towns thrive?8
Local constant-quality housing market liquidity indices8
Income segregation's impact on local public expenditures: Evidence from municipalities and school districts, 1980–20108
Teleworking and housing demand8
Environmental regulation, local labor market, and skill heterogeneity8
Industrialization and urbanization in nineteenth century America8
Editorial Board7
The relative importance of portable and non-portable agglomeration effects for the urban wage premium7
Editorial Board7
Editorial Board7
Disamenities of living close to transit tracks: Evidence from Singapore's MRT system7
Informal land markets and ethnic kinship in West African cities7
Vertical migration externalities7
Cities with forking paths? Agglomeration economies in New Zealand 1976–20187
Urban planning policies and the cost of living in large cities7
Revisiting property tax capitalization7
Rural-urban migration in developing countries: Lessons from the literature7
Coal busts and urban recovery: Evidence from China7
Recreational cannabis dispensary access effects on prescription opioid use and mortality7
Stuck in traffic: Measuring congestion externalities with negative supply shocks7
Health facility quality peer effects: Are financial incentives necessary?7
Sorting based on urban heritage and income: Evidence from the Amsterdam metropolitan area7
Do applications respond to changes in asylum policies in European countries?6
Capital as an anchor of agricultural employment: Evidence from the 1975 frost6
Skills and the city in China6
The user cost of housing and the price-rent ratio in Shanghai6
Editorial Board6
Public firms on an international border: A model of spatial price discrimination6
Refugees welcome? Understanding the regional heterogeneity of anti-refugee hate crime6
Dynamic agglomeration effects of foreigners and natives – The role of experience in high-quality sectors, tasks and establishments6
The labour market impacts of female internal migration: Evidence from the end of Apartheid5
Real estate prices and land use regulations: Evidence from the Law of Heights in Bogotá5
Quantitative economic geography meets history: Questions, answers and challenges5
R&D investments with spillovers and endogenous horizontal differentiation5
Editorial Board5
Editorial Board5
Energy-efficient investments in housing5
Do grocery food taxes incentivize participation in SNAP?5
Rational cuts? The local impact of closing undersized schools5
War shocks, migration, and historical spatial development in China5
The elected official next door5
Rural-urban migration with remittances and welfare analysis5
Small things, big impact: The network-mediated spillover effect through a transport connectivity enhancement project5
Gender and racial disparities in altruism in social networks5
Estimating the effect of land use regulation on land price: At the kink point of building height limits in Fukuoka4
The Economic Impact of Public Capital: Evidence from Chinese Prefectures and Firms4
Highways and pedestrian deaths in US neighborhoods4
Complexity and colocation of the college-educated: Sort of complements4
Leases over real property4
Should I wait or should I go? Travelling versus waiting for better healthcare4
The next town over: On the clustering of towns and settlements before modern economic growth4
Geographic and temporal variation in housing filtering rates4
Natural disasters and establishment performance: Evidence from the 2011 Rio de Janeiro Landslides4
Immigrants and cities during the age of mass migration4
Terrorism and political attitudes: Evidence from European social surveys4
Demographic changes and the housing market4
Has the effect of housing wealth on household consumption been overestimated? New evidence on magnitude and allocation4
The income consequences of a managed retreat4
Can information help Lakisha and Jamal find housing? Evidence from a low-cost online experiment of landlords4
Organization & density-related differences in within-firm wage disparities4
Rent-tax substitution and its impact on firms: Evidence from housing purchase limits policy in China4
Disparities in COVID-19 risk exposure: Evidence from geolocation data3
Editorial Board3
Spatial price discrimination in a mixed duopoly input market3
Hospital quality interdependence in a competitive institutional environment: Evidence from Italy3
Does state tax reciprocity affect interstate commuting? Evidence from a natural experiment3
Your room is ready: Tourism and urban revival3
Editorial Board3
Experimental evidence on the effects of means-tested public transportation subsidies on travel behavior3
Estimating spatial autoregressions under heteroskedasticity without searching for instruments3
Heterogeneous effects of urban transport infrastructure on population distribution: The role of educational access3
Voluntary retirement savings in China: A spatial ordered probit approach3
Do school shootings erode property values?3
Congestion and consolidation: An empirical study of a barge shipping merger3
The lead-crime hypothesis: A meta-analysis3
Reexamining lackluster productivity growth in construction2
A consumer surplus, welfare and profit enhancing strategy for improving urban public transport networks2
Too-big-to-fail in federations?2
The micro persistence of layouts and design: Quasi-experimental evidence from the United States Housing Corporation2
State government saving over the business cycle2
Ethnicity and health at work during the COVID-192
Do cities mitigate or exacerbate environmental damages to health?2
Monopsony in spatial equilibrium2
Editorial Board2
150 years of the geography of innovation2
The economic impact of a casino monopoly: Evidence from Atlantic City2
Ideology, intergovernmental transfers, and public health spending: Evidence from South Korea2
The impact of place-based poverty relief: Evidence from the Federal Promise Zone Program2
Refugee reception, extreme-right voting, and compositional amenities: Evidence from Italian municipalities2
Impact of the Community Reinvestment Act on small business employment in lower income neighborhoods2
Temporal dynamics of rent regulations – The case of the German rent control2
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