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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Population density and urban air quality77
The Geography of Remote Work56
The long-run effects of the 1930s HOLC “redlining” maps on place-based measures of economic opportunity and socioeconomic success47
High-speed railways and collaborative innovation46
Rural-urban migration in developing countries: Lessons from the literature40
Did the London congestion charge reduce pollution?31
Does improving public transport decrease car ownership? Evidence from a residential sorting model for the Copenhagen metropolitan area31
The impact of Airbnb on residential property values and rents: Evidence from Portugal27
“Ghost cities” versus boom towns: Do China's high-speed rail new towns thrive?27
Comparing cities in developed and developing countries: Population, land area, building height and crowding26
Epidemic shocks and housing price responses: Evidence from China's urban residential communities25
Localized knowledge spillovers: Evidence from the spatial clustering of R&D labs and patent citations23
Local inequalities of the COVID-19 crisis23
Localized commercial effects from natural disasters: The case of Hurricane Sandy and New York City22
Can price regulation increase land-use intensity? Evidence from China's industrial land market22
Does gentrification displace poor children and their families? New evidence from medicaid data in New York City22
Self-driving cars and the city: Effects on sprawl, energy consumption, and housing affordability22
Zoning and segregation in urban economic history22
It’s not about the money. EU funds, local opportunities, and Euroscepticism21
The refugee wave to Germany and its impact on crime20
From twitter to GDP: Estimating economic activity from social media19
The long-run effects of congestion tolls, carbon tax, and land use regulations on urban CO2 emissions18
Choice of hospital and long-distances: Evidence from Italy18
Land conversion across cities in China18
Compulsory voting and political participation: Empirical evidence from Austria17
Rural-urban migration at high urbanization levels17
Storm surges, informational shocks, and the price of urban real estate: An application to the case of Hurricane Sandy17
Public transport provision under agglomeration economies17
The virus that devastated tourism: The impact of covid-19 on the housing market17
The impact of fare-free public transport on travel behavior: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial16
Does proximity to fast food cause childhood obesity? Evidence from public housing15
The impact of curbside parking regulations on car ownership15
Employment density and agglomeration economies in tall buildings15
Temporal dynamics of rent regulations – The case of the German rent control15
Agglomeration of human capital: Evidence from city choice of online job seekers in China15
Social insurance, demographics, and rural-urban migration in China14
Rural-urban migration and house prices in China14
Local labor market effects of public employment14
Is there loss aversion in the trade-off between wages and commuting distances?13
A spatial econometric multivariate model of Okun's law13
Urbanization policy and economic development: A quantitative analysis of China's differential hukou reforms13
What makes an artist? The evolution and clustering of creative activity in the US since 185013
Anything new in town? The local effects of urban regeneration policies in Italy12
Effect of air pollution on house prices: Evidence from sanctions on Iran12
Stability and sustainability of urban systems under commuting and transportation costs12
Immigration and electoral outcomes: Evidence from the 2015 refugee inflow to Germany12
Temporary driving restrictions, air pollution, and contemporaneous health: Evidence from China11
Medieval cities through the lens of urban economics11
Human capital externalities or consumption spillovers? The effect of high-skill human capital across low-skill labor markets11
Understanding local government debt in China: A regional competition perspective11
The effects of supporting local business: Evidence from the UK11
What happens when Airbnb comes to the neighborhood: The impact of home-sharing on neighborhood investment10
Industrialization and urbanization in nineteenth century America10
Economic diversification and the resiliency hypothesis: Evidence from the impact of natural disasters on regional housing values10
School runs and urban traffic congestion: Evidence from China9
The role of informal housing in lowering China’s urbanization costs9
Persistence and path dependence: A primer9
Housing vintage and price dynamics9
Measuring internal migration9
Do school buses make school choice work?9
Rural electrification, migration and structural transformation: Evidence from Ethiopia9
Urban economics in a historical perspective: Recovering data with machine learning9
Ride-sharing, alcohol consumption, and drunk driving9
How do home purchase restrictions affect elite Chinese graduate students’ job search behavior?8
Welfare losses of road congestion: Evidence from Rome8
Fireworks regulation, air pollution, and public health: Evidence from China8
Effects of gentrification on homeowners: Evidence from a natural experiment8
Between two extreme practices of rent-only and deposit-only leases in Korea: Default risk vs. cost of capital8
The effect of air pollution on criminal activities: Evidence from the NO Budget Trading Program8
Estimating the price elasticity of demand for subways: Evidence from Mexico8
Prescription drug monitoring programs and neonatal outcomes7
Specification Tests for Temporal Heterogeneity in Spatial Panel Data Models with Fixed Effects7
Spillover effects from new housing supply7
Household residential location choice in retirement: The role of climate amenities7
Demographic changes and the housing market7
The causal economic effects of Olympic Games on host regions7
Property tax capitalization, a case study of Dallas County7
Urban structures with forward and backward linkages7
Urban air pollution and time losses: Evidence from cyclists in London7
Intergovernmental fiscal transfers and tax efforts: Regression-discontinuity analysis for Japanese local governments7
Manager or professional politician? Local fiscal autonomy and the skills of elected officials7
Metros, agglomeration and displacement. Evidence from London6
The response of regional well-being to place-based policy interventions6
Fiscal equalization and the tax structure6
Exploring the rise of mortgage borrowing among older Americans6
Does low-skilled immigration increase profits? Evidence from Italian local labour markets6
The Role of a University in Cluster Formation: Evidence from a National Institute of Science and Technology in Korea6
Do applications respond to changes in asylum policies in European countries?6
Cities of workers, children or seniors? Stylized facts and possible implications for growth in a global sample of cities6
Local taxation and tax base mobility: Evidence from France6
Testing the monocentric standard urban model in a global sample of cities6
Borders, geography, and economic activity: The case of China6
In search of better opportunities: Sorting and agglomeration effects among young college graduates in Colombia6
What future for history dependence in spatial economics?6
Racial residential segregation and black low birth weight, 1970–20106
What can developing cities today learn from the urban past?6
Working from home and corporate real estate6
Equilibrium existence in the Hotelling model with convex production costs6
Geographic and temporal variation in housing filtering rates5
Income growth, income uncertainty, and urban–rural household savings rate in China5
The spatial decay of human capital externalities - A functional regression approach with precise geo-referenced data5
Refugee reception, extreme-right voting, and compositional amenities: Evidence from Italian municipalities5
Estimation of fixed effects spatial dynamic panel data models with small T and unknown heteroskedasticity5
Viewing urban spatial history from tall buildings5
City origins5
Rent-tax substitution and its impact on firms: Evidence from housing purchase limits policy in China5
Hits from the Bong: The impact of recreational marijuana dispensaries on property values5
The labour market impacts of female internal migration: Evidence from the end of Apartheid5
Rural-urban migration with remittances and welfare analysis5
Local fiscal policies and their impact on the number and spatial distribution of new firms5
150 years of the geography of innovation5
Land use policies considering a natural ecosystem5
The carbon ‘carprint’ of urbanization: New evidence from French cities5
The accident externality from trucking: Evidence from shale gas development5
History and urban economics5
The next town over: On the clustering of towns and settlements before modern economic growth5
Do local governments use business tax incentives to compensate for high business property taxes?5
Estimating housing rent depreciation for inflation adjustments5
Indecent proposals: Estimating the impact of regional state aid through EU guideline compliance5
The user cost of housing and the price-rent ratio in Shanghai5
Why do businesses grow faster in urban areas than in rural areas?5
Measuring heterogeneous preferences for residential amenities5
Firms, fires, and firebreaks: The impact of the 1906 San Francisco disaster on business agglomeration4
Should I wait or should I go? Travelling versus waiting for better healthcare4
Can information help Lakisha and Jamal find housing? Evidence from a low-cost online experiment of landlords4
The political economy of historic districts: The private, the public, and the collective4
City size, family migration, and gender wage gap: Evidence from rural–urban migrants in China4
Water infrastructure and health in U.S. cities4
The impact of place-based poverty relief: Evidence from the Federal Promise Zone Program4
Regional composition of national house price cycles in the US4
Pecuniary effects of public housing demolitions: Evidence from Chicago4
Do public and private hospitals differ in quality? Evidence from Italy4
Indirect effects of trade shocks on Turkish local labor markets4
Micro-geographic property price and rent indices4
Transaction-tax evasion in the housing market4
Sorting based on urban heritage and income: Evidence from the Amsterdam metropolitan area4
On the economic geography of an aging society4
Has the effect of housing wealth on household consumption been overestimated? New evidence on magnitude and allocation4
Willingness to pay for clean air: Evidence from diesel vehicle registration restrictions in Japan4
Does inter-municipal cooperation help improve local economic performance? – Evidence from Poland4
The bedroom tax4
Refugees welcome? Understanding the regional heterogeneity of anti-refugee hate crime4
Minimum wages and housing rents: Theory and evidence3
Prolonging coal’s sunset: Local demand for local supply3
Corporate responses to air quality regulation: Evidence from a regional environmental policy in China3
Cities with forking paths? Agglomeration economies in New Zealand 1976–20183
Rush hours and urbanization3
The prices of residential land in German counties3
Externalities from urban renewal: Evidence from a French program3
Harm reduction or amplification? The adverse impact of a supervised injection room on housing prices3
Mortgage subsidies, homeownership, and marriage: Effects of the VA loan program3
Do local businesses benefit from sports facilities? The case of major league sports stadiums and arenas3
Decomposing the impact of immigration on house prices3
Do financial incentives increase the acceptance of power lines? Evidence from Germany3
The micro persistence of layouts and design: Quasi-experimental evidence from the United States Housing Corporation3
Effectiveness and supply effects of high-coverage rent control policies3
Tax incentives and housing decisions: Effects of the Tax Cut and Jobs Act3
Taxed to death? Freight truck collision externalities and diesel taxes3
Are wind turbines a mafia windfall? The unintended consequences of green incentives3
Natural disasters and establishment performance: Evidence from the 2011 Rio de Janeiro Landslides2
Income segregation's impact on local public expenditures: Evidence from municipalities and school districts, 1980–20102
Housing supply in the presence of informality2
Government policy and land price dynamics: A quantitative assessment of China’s factor market reforms2
Global bifurcation mechanism and local stability of identical and equidistant regions: Application to three regions and more2
The effects of an “urban village” planning and zoning strategy in San Jose, California2
Salience of hazard disclosure and house prices: Evidence from Christchurch, New Zealand2
Infrastructure and institutions: Lessons from history2
A spatial analysis of borrowers’ mortgage termination decision – A nonparametric approach2
Does the stick make the carrot more attractive? State mandates and uptake of renewable heating technologies2
The impact of improved passenger transport system on manufacturing plant productivity2
Public good provision and local employment – Evidence from grammar school closures in East Germany2
War shocks, migration, and historical spatial development in China2
Productivity growth, industry location patterns and labor market frictions2
The effect of property taxes on businesses: Evidence from a dynamic regression discontinuity approach2
The effectiveness of job creation tax credits2
Optimizing the number of employment subcenters to decentralize a congested city2
Gentrification and retail churn: Theory and evidence2
Quantitative economic geography meets history: Questions, answers and challenges2
A tale of two districts: The impact of district consolidation on property values in Shanghai2
Congestion and consolidation: An empirical study of a barge shipping merger2
The lead-crime hypothesis: A meta-analysis2
Do firms redline workers?2
Vertical differentiation and airline alliances: The effect of antitrust immunity2
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