OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Regional Science and Urban Economics is 8. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	119
Hospital closure in urban and rural areas and patients’ welfare	102
Do municipal mergers reduce the cost of waste management? Evidence from Japan	94
Viewing urban spatial history from tall buildings	46
Spillover effects from new housing supply	39
Roads, transit and spatial patterns of urbanization in São Paulo: Evidence from the second half of the twentieth century	39
European highway networks, transportation costs, and regional income	38
Airbnb and rental markets: Evidence from Berlin	38
Introduction to the Special Issue: "Urban economics and history"	37
Educational and gender heterogeneity of the rural-urban earnings premium: New evidence from Norway	36
Water infrastructure and health in U.S. cities	35
Local inequalities of the COVID-19 crisis	32
Work-from-home and cities: An elementary spatial model	31
Editorial Board	29
Firm sorting, clustering, and vertical disintegration: Evidence from China	26
Equal price for equal place? Demand-driven racial discrimination in the housing market	24
Brand loyalty, managerial delegation and position choices: Bertrand versus Cournot competition	23
Immigrants' clusters and unequal access to healthcare treatments	23
Agglomeration economies in developing countries: A meta-analysis	22
Empirical behaviour of Anselin et al.’s locally robust LM tests for spatial dependence in a panel data setting	22
Cities and water quality	22
The effects of a FAR regulation in a model of durable building with redevelopment: The case of New York City	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	21
Introduction to special issue on rural-urban migration in honor of Harris and Todaro	20

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

Editorial Board