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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board89
Viewing urban spatial history from tall buildings85
Hospital closure in urban and rural areas and patients’ welfare78
Do municipal mergers reduce the cost of waste management? Evidence from Japan58
Spillover effects from new housing supply46
Airbnb and rental markets: Evidence from Berlin35
Roads, transit and spatial patterns of urbanization in São Paulo: Evidence from the second half of the twentieth century34
European highway networks, transportation costs, and regional income34
Water infrastructure and health in U.S. cities33
Introduction to the Special Issue: "Urban economics and history"33
Educational and gender heterogeneity of the rural-urban earnings premium: New evidence from Norway32
Agglomeration economies in developing countries: A meta-analysis30
Cities and water quality30
Local inequalities of the COVID-19 crisis29
Empirical behaviour of Anselin et al.’s locally robust LM tests for spatial dependence in a panel data setting27
Editorial Board27
Firm sorting, clustering, and vertical disintegration: Evidence from China26
Equal price for equal place? Demand-driven racial discrimination in the housing market21
Brand loyalty, managerial delegation and position choices: Bertrand versus Cournot competition20
Immigrants' clusters and unequal access to healthcare treatments20
Work-from-home and cities: An elementary spatial model20
The virus that devastated tourism: The impact of covid-19 on the housing market20
Estimating housing rent depreciation for inflation adjustments19
City size, family migration, and gender wage gap: Evidence from rural–urban migrants in China19
Location of housing and industry around city centre amenities19
The effects of a FAR regulation in a model of durable building with redevelopment: The case of New York City18
Cumulative impacts in environmental justice: Insights from economics and policy18
Introduction to special issue on rural-urban migration in honor of Harris and Todaro18
Editorial Board16
Editorial Board16
What if you build it and they don't come? How the ghost of transit past haunts transit present15
Do local businesses benefit from sports facilities? The case of major league sports stadiums and arenas15
The prices of residential land in German counties15
Consumer salience and quality provision in (un)regulated public service markets15
Re-evaluating the urban wage premium: The changing roles of geographical and job transitions for women and men15
Inter-municipal cooperation cloud and tax administrative costs14
Evaluating the long-run effects of zoning reform on urban development13
Decarbonizing passenger transportation in developing countries: Lessons and perspectives113
On the economic geography of an aging society13
Corrigendum to “Location preferences and slum formation: Evidence from a panel of residence histories” [Reg. Sci. Urban Econ., 97 (November 2022) 103816]13
The refugee wave to Germany and its impact on crime12
The accident externality from trucking: Evidence from shale gas development12
The economics of China’s between-city height competition: A regression discontinuity approach11
Do households value lower density: Theory, evidence, and implications from Washington, DC11
Rural-urban migration and house prices in China11
The effectiveness of job creation tax credits11
The impact of preferential farmland taxation on local public finances11
Interaction of public and private employment: Evidence from a German government move11
The carbon ‘carprint’ of urbanization: New evidence from French cities11
Backward-bending labor supply and urban location11
The response of regional well-being to place-based policy interventions10
Data sharing and tax enforcement: Evidence from short-term rentals in Denmark10
Immigrants and entrepreneurship: A road for talent or just the only road?10
Property tax capitalization, a case study of Dallas County10
The effect of the earthquake in Central Italy on the depopulation of the affected territories10
Learners in cities: Agglomeration and the spatial division of cognition10
Teleworking and housing demand10
The causal economic effects of Olympic Games on host regions10
Editorial Board10
Understanding local government debt in China: A regional competition perspective10
Government policy and land price dynamics: A quantitative assessment of China’s factor market reforms10
Reducing ethnic discrimination through formal warning: Evidence from two combined field experiments9
Industrial structure in urban accounting9
Persistence and variation of schools as housing amenities9
(In)efficient commuting and migration choices: Theory and policy in an urban search model9
The housing market impacts of bicycle-sharing systems9
Homeowner associations and city cohesion9
Industrialization and urbanization in nineteenth century America8
The impact of Airbnb on residential property values and rents: Evidence from Portugal8
Aligning incentives: The effect of mortgage servicing rules on foreclosures and delinquency8
Cities with forking paths? Agglomeration economies in New Zealand 1976–20187
Income segregation's impact on local public expenditures: Evidence from municipalities and school districts, 1980–20107
“Ghost cities” versus boom towns: Do China's high-speed rail new towns thrive?7
Editorial Board7
Local constant-quality housing market liquidity indices7
Informal land markets and ethnic kinship in West African cities7
Commuting barriers to low-wage employment7
Cross-border casino competition, Externalities and Optimal Tax Policy: A Unified Theory with Quantitative Analysis7
Vertical migration externalities7
Recreational cannabis dispensary access effects on prescription opioid use and mortality7
Willingness to pay for clean air: Evidence from diesel vehicle registration restrictions in Japan7
Employer-provided parking: Departure time choice, investment decision, and welfare effects7
Environmental regulation, local labor market, and skill heterogeneity7
Coal busts and urban recovery: Evidence from China7
Urban planning policies and the cost of living in large cities6
The relative importance of portable and non-portable agglomeration effects for the urban wage premium6
Sorting based on urban heritage and income: Evidence from the Amsterdam metropolitan area6
Editorial Board6
Rural-urban migration in developing countries: Lessons from the literature6
Stuck in traffic: Measuring congestion externalities with negative supply shocks5
Health facility quality peer effects: Are financial incentives necessary?5
Capital as an anchor of agricultural employment: Evidence from the 1975 frost5
Refugees welcome? Understanding the regional heterogeneity of anti-refugee hate crime5
Dynamic agglomeration effects of foreigners and natives – The role of experience in high-quality sectors, tasks and establishments5
Editorial Board5
Disamenities of living close to transit tracks: Evidence from Singapore's MRT system5
Firms, fires, and firebreaks: The impact of the 1906 San Francisco disaster on business agglomeration5
Public firms on an international border: A model of spatial price discrimination5
War shocks, migration, and historical spatial development in China5
What happens when Airbnb comes to the neighborhood: The impact of home-sharing on neighborhood investment5
Skills and the city in China5
Revisiting property tax capitalization5
Editorial Board5
Do applications respond to changes in asylum policies in European countries?5
The user cost of housing and the price-rent ratio in Shanghai5
Gender and racial disparities in altruism in social networks5
Energy-efficient investments in housing5
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The elected official next door4
Rural-urban migration with remittances and welfare analysis4
Do grocery food taxes incentivize participation in SNAP?4
The income consequences of a managed retreat4
Quantitative economic geography meets history: Questions, answers and challenges4
The labour market impacts of female internal migration: Evidence from the end of Apartheid4
Real estate prices and land use regulations: Evidence from the Law of Heights in Bogotá4
R&D investments with spillovers and endogenous horizontal differentiation4
Estimating the effect of land use regulation on land price: At the kink point of building height limits in Fukuoka4
The next town over: On the clustering of towns and settlements before modern economic growth4
Editorial Board4
Rational cuts? The local impact of closing undersized schools4
Small things, big impact: The network-mediated spillover effect through a transport connectivity enhancement project4
Geographic and temporal variation in housing filtering rates4
Has the effect of housing wealth on household consumption been overestimated? New evidence on magnitude and allocation4
Demographic changes and the housing market3
Natural disasters and establishment performance: Evidence from the 2011 Rio de Janeiro Landslides3
Your room is ready: Tourism and urban revival3
Heterogeneous effects of urban transport infrastructure on population distribution: The role of educational access3
Terrorism and political attitudes: Evidence from European social surveys3
Do school shootings erode property values?3
Immigrants and cities during the age of mass migration3
Highways and pedestrian deaths in US neighborhoods3
Does state tax reciprocity affect interstate commuting? Evidence from a natural experiment3
Rent-tax substitution and its impact on firms: Evidence from housing purchase limits policy in China3
Disparities in COVID-19 risk exposure: Evidence from geolocation data3
Voluntary retirement savings in China: A spatial ordered probit approach3
Complexity and colocation of the college-educated: Sort of complements3
The Economic Impact of Public Capital: Evidence from Chinese Prefectures and Firms3
Can information help Lakisha and Jamal find housing? Evidence from a low-cost online experiment of landlords3
Leases over real property3
Should I wait or should I go? Travelling versus waiting for better healthcare3
Editorial Board3
Organization & density-related differences in within-firm wage disparities3
Spatial price discrimination in a mixed duopoly input market2
Experimental evidence on the effects of means-tested public transportation subsidies on travel behavior2
Monopsony in spatial equilibrium2
Do cities mitigate or exacerbate environmental damages to health?2
The lead-crime hypothesis: A meta-analysis2
Refugee reception, extreme-right voting, and compositional amenities: Evidence from Italian municipalities2
Ethnicity and health at work during the COVID-192
Congestion and consolidation: An empirical study of a barge shipping merger2
Optimal compulsion for private assembly of property2
Estimating spatial autoregressions under heteroskedasticity without searching for instruments2
The impact of place-based poverty relief: Evidence from the Federal Promise Zone Program2
The micro persistence of layouts and design: Quasi-experimental evidence from the United States Housing Corporation2
The economic impact of a casino monopoly: Evidence from Atlantic City2
Editorial Board2
Hospital quality interdependence in a competitive institutional environment: Evidence from Italy2
A consumer surplus, welfare and profit enhancing strategy for improving urban public transport networks2
Ideology, intergovernmental transfers, and public health spending: Evidence from South Korea2
Reexamining Lackluster Productivity Growth in Construction2
Too-big-to-fail in federations?2
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