Journal of Regional Science

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Regional Science is 1. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Organized Crime, Corruption, and Economic Growth94
Legal heritage and urban slums82
Where do women earn more than men? Explaining regional differences in the gender pay gap53
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Cities in a pandemic: Evidence from China43
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Geography and regional economic growth: The high cost of deviating from nature28
Voting on urban land development28
The task coordination method of intelligence‐alliance innovation team of universities in Western China25
Measuring US regional economic uncertainty23
The effects of robots on internal migration: Evidence from China22
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Rediscovering regional science: Positioning the field's evolving location in science and society20
The state of economics after the Lehman collapseBasu, K., Rosenblatt, D., and Sepúlveda, C. (Eds.), (2020). The state of economics, the state of the world. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press. 552pp. ISBN: 978‐019
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Too late to buy a home? School redistricting and the timing and extent of capitalization16
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Why do students leave school early in OECD countries? The role of regional labor markets and school policies12
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Migration and the location of MNE activities: Evidence from Italian provinces12
The effect of short‐term rentals on local consumption amenities: Evidence from Madrid12
Counterfactual dissimilarity: Can changes in demographics and income explain increased racial integration in US cities?12
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The impact of home rule on municipal boundary and fiscal expansion: Evidence from Texas11
Gaining in impacts by leveraging the policy mix: Evidence from the European Cohesion Policy in more developed regions10
Migration and the European City: Social and Cultural Perspectives from Early Modernity to the Present. C.Cornelissen, B.Kümin, & M.Rospocher (eds.). 2022. De Gruyter Oldenbourg. 251 pages. ISBN:‎ 10
Geographic differences in the effect of immigration on the native wage distribution: Evidence from Italian provinces10
What kind of region reaps the benefits of a currency union?9
Wage trickle down versus rent trickle down: How does an increase in college graduates affect wages and rents?9
In search of key performance indicators of regional competitiveness in the European Union9
Local job multipliers revisited9
Institutions and the uneven geography of the first wave of the COVID‐19 pandemic8
Roads to innovation: Evidence from Italy7
The drivers of intra‐ and interregional labor mobility over the industry life cycle of the high‐tech sector7
Digital gravity? Firm birth and relocation patterns of young digital firms in Germany7
Determinants of tourist employment in Brazilian microregions: A dynamic panel data approach7
Geographic earnings inequality by race, 1960–20167
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Regional aspects of immigration‐related changes in political preferences6
Quantifying the impacts of climate shocks in commercial real estate markets6
The spatial scope of agglomeration economies in Brazil6
Internal structure of consumer cities: Core and subcenters6
The impact of government support on rural grocery stores—A regression discontinuity approach6
Cleanliness is next to income: The impact of COVID‐19 on short‐term rentals6
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Risk attitudes and migration decisions6
The Effect of Natural Disasters on Inbound Tourism: Synthetic Control Evidence From Italy6
The opioid crisis and economic distress: Consequences for population change5
Regional borders, local unemployment, and life satisfaction5
City subcenter as a regional development policy: Impact on the property market5
The state of economics after the Lehman collapseBasu, K., Rosenblatt, D., and Sepúlveda, C. (Eds.), (2020). The state of economics, the state of the world. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press. 552pp. ISBN: 978‐05
Ethnicity and UK graduate migration: An identity economics approach5
The intensity of COVID‐19 nonpharmaceutical interventions and labor market outcomes in the public sector5
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Do what we did last year, but do not stray too far from the pack: A behavioral public finance approach to municipal cash reserves5
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All (economic) politics is local: Voting responses to localized price shocks during the great recession5
How do initial migrants choose their locations? Interregional migration in Japan from 1899 to 19385
Long‐term decline of regions and the rise of populism: The case of Germany4
Crime in the era of COVID‐19: Evidence from England4
Migration and natives' inequality: Evidence from Italian local labor markets4
Regional growth and disparities in a post‐COVID Europe: A new normality scenario4
Tracking the pulse of a city—3D real estate price heat maps4
Immigrants, voter sentiment, and local public goods: The case of museums4
Urbanization and firm access to credit4
Where did it hit harder? Understanding the geography of excess mortality during the COVID‐19 pandemic4
Mafia doesn't live here anymore: Antimafia policies and housing prices4
What contributes to rising inequality in large cities?4
Regional multipliers across the Italian regions4
Moving mountains: Geography, neighborhood sorting, and spatial income segregation3
Access to credit and economic complexity: Evidence from Italian provinces3
Decomposing the gender reservation wage gap in Italy: A regional perspective3
Regional and sectorial impacts of the Covid‐19 crisis: Evidence from electronic payments3
Damage versus risk perception: Why do house prices recover after hurricanes?3
Home is where the history is: How today's migration in Germany is shaped by regional identity3
311 calls and neighborhood attributes: A panel study of housing prices3
Is distance really dying? Transportation and knowledge spillovers3
Geography of contestation: A study on the Yellow Vest movement and the rise of populism in France3
Within‐city roads and urban growth3
Local information and the stabilization role of local government: Evidence from a natural experiment in China3
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From agglomeration to dispersion: How does China's noncapital functions' relief affect regional development?3
How does the Covid‐19 pandemic affect regional labor markets and why do large cities suffer most?3
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Political tournaments and regional growth‐enhancing policies: Evidence from Chinese prefectures2
Innovation in Malmö after the Öresund Bridge2
Comparing city size distributions: Gridded population versus nighttime lights2
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The role of inefficiency in a productivity puzzle: Regional evidence for Great Britain2
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Place‐based investment and neighborhood change: The impacts of New Markets Tax Credits on jobs, poverty, and neighborhood composition2
Premature exit from and delayed entrance into the less developed status: An empirical appraisal of the structural funds allocation criterion2
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Impact of demolitions on neighboring property values in Detroit2
Regional disparities, transmission channels and country's economic growth2
Closed for mafia: Evidence from the removal of mafia firms on commercial property values2
Business dynamism, educational attainment, and residential location choice2
The impact of crime on firm entry2
Cultural shock of high‐speed rail: Evidence from social trust2
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Do municipal unions improve cost efficiency for the social function? A quasi‐experimental endogenous stochastic frontier approach2
Welfare costs of COVID‐19: Evidence from US counties1
Does size matter? Evidence from municipal splits1
Inter‐ and intraregional inequality in a spatial economy1
L.M.A.Bettencourt, 2021Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex SystemsMIT Press. 453+xxi. ISBN: 978‐0262046008. $44.82 (hardcover)1
Localized labor flow networks in knowledge‐intensive industries1
Geographic spread of COVID‐19 and local economies: Heterogeneous effects by establishment size and industry1
Does road accessibility to cities support rural population growth? Evidence for Portugal between 1991 and 20111
Identifying and Mapping Industrial Districts Through a Spatially Constrained Cluster‐Wise Regression Approach1
Firm‐level productivity growth returns of social capital: Evidence from Western Europe1
Place‐based tax incentives and minority employment: Evidence from the New Market Tax Credit Program1
Climate risk and commercial mortgage delinquency1
Looking ahead in anger: The effects of foreign migration on youth resentment in England1
From the historical Roman road network to modern infrastructure in Italy1
Are the home values and property tax burdens of permanent homeowners affected by growth in housing rentals and second homes: Evidence based on big data from Florida1
Access to capital markets and the geography of productivity leaders and laggards1
The impact of the Coronavirus pandemic on New York City real estate: First evidence1
Divided we fall? The effect of manufacturing decline on the social capital of US communities1
Network versus spatial proximity and firm innovation: The case of the R&D service sector1
Rationality test in the housing market: Project‐level evidence from China1
Infrastructure, enforcement, and COVID‐19 in Mumbai slums: A first look1
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What does the disclosure of school quality information bring? The effect through the housing market1
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Research collaboration beyond the boundary: Evidence from university patents in China1
Population Ageing and Entrepreneurship: Theory and Evidence From OECD Countries1
Lessons from the 2020 Covid recession for understanding regional resilience1
Amazon deforestation and CO2 emissions: A macroeconomic approach using the GVAR1
Lights out: The economic impacts of Covid‐19 on cities globally1
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