Regional Science and Urban Economics

Article	Citations
Population density and urban air quality	104
The long-run effects of the 1930s HOLC “redlining” maps on place-based measures of economic opportunity and socioeconomic success	71
The Geography of Remote Work	66
Rural-urban migration in developing countries: Lessons from the literature	58
High-speed railways and collaborative innovation	57
“Ghost cities” versus boom towns: Do China's high-speed rail new towns thrive?	42
Comparing cities in developed and developing countries: Population, land area, building height and crowding	38
The impact of Airbnb on residential property values and rents: Evidence from Portugal	35
Localized commercial effects from natural disasters: The case of Hurricane Sandy and New York City	30
The impact of fare-free public transport on travel behavior: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial	28
The virus that devastated tourism: The impact of covid-19 on the housing market	28
Storm surges, informational shocks, and the price of urban real estate: An application to the case of Hurricane Sandy	27
Epidemic shocks and housing price responses: Evidence from China's urban residential communities	27
Zoning and segregation in urban economic history	27
Local inequalities of the COVID-19 crisis	26
The long-run effects of congestion tolls, carbon tax, and land use regulations on urban CO2 emissions	25
Rural-urban migration at high urbanization levels	25
From twitter to GDP: Estimating economic activity from social media	24
Land conversion across cities in China	24
Temporal dynamics of rent regulations – The case of the German rent control	22
Rural-urban migration and house prices in China	20
The refugee wave to Germany and its impact on crime	20
Understanding local government debt in China: A regional competition perspective	20
Social insurance, demographics, and rural-urban migration in China	20
Effect of air pollution on house prices: Evidence from sanctions on Iran	20

A spatial econometric multivariate model of Okun's law	20
Economic diversification and the resiliency hypothesis: Evidence from the impact of natural disasters on regional housing values	18
Agglomeration of human capital: Evidence from city choice of online job seekers in China	16
Industrialization and urbanization in nineteenth century America	15
What makes an artist? The evolution and clustering of creative activity in the US since 1850	15
Immigration and electoral outcomes: Evidence from the 2015 refugee inflow to Germany	15
Urbanization policy and economic development: A quantitative analysis of China's differential hukou reforms	14
Fireworks regulation, air pollution, and public health: Evidence from China	14
Anything new in town? The local effects of urban regeneration policies in Italy	14
Urban economics in a historical perspective: Recovering data with machine learning	13
Welfare losses of road congestion: Evidence from Rome	13
School runs and urban traffic congestion: Evidence from China	13
Spillover effects from new housing supply	13
Human capital externalities or consumption spillovers? The effect of high-skill human capital across low-skill labor markets	13
Persistence and path dependence: A primer	13
Testing the monocentric standard urban model in a global sample of cities	12
What future for history dependence in spatial economics?	12
Rent-tax substitution and its impact on firms: Evidence from housing purchase limits policy in China	11
Do school buses make school choice work?	11
Estimating the price elasticity of demand for subways: Evidence from Mexico	11
Rural electrification, migration and structural transformation: Evidence from Ethiopia	11
Do applications respond to changes in asylum policies in European countries?	11
History and urban economics	11
Demographic changes and the housing market	11
Does low-skilled immigration increase profits? Evidence from Italian local labour markets	10
The causal economic effects of Olympic Games on host regions	10
How do home purchase restrictions affect elite Chinese graduate students’ job search behavior?	10
The role of informal housing in lowering China’s urbanization costs	10
Medieval cities through the lens of urban economics	10
Measuring internal migration	10
What happens when Airbnb comes to the neighborhood: The impact of home-sharing on neighborhood investment	10
Between two extreme practices of rent-only and deposit-only leases in Korea: Default risk vs. cost of capital	10
Ride-sharing, alcohol consumption, and drunk driving	9
Cities of workers, children or seniors? Stylized facts and possible implications for growth in a global sample of cities	9
150 years of the geography of innovation	9
Decomposing the impact of immigration on house prices	8
Property tax capitalization, a case study of Dallas County	8
Estimating housing rent depreciation for inflation adjustments	8
In search of better opportunities: Sorting and agglomeration effects among young college graduates in Colombia	8
The carbon ‘carprint’ of urbanization: New evidence from French cities	7
Willingness to pay for clean air: Evidence from diesel vehicle registration restrictions in Japan	7
Borders, geography, and economic activity: The case of China	7
City size, family migration, and gender wage gap: Evidence from rural–urban migrants in China	7
Effectiveness and supply effects of high-coverage rent control policies	7
Water infrastructure and health in U.S. cities	7
Micro-geographic property price and rent indices	7
Refugees welcome? Understanding the regional heterogeneity of anti-refugee hate crime	7
Optimizing the number of employment subcenters to decentralize a congested city	7
Refugee reception, extreme-right voting, and compositional amenities: Evidence from Italian municipalities	7
Does inter-municipal cooperation help improve local economic performance? – Evidence from Poland	7

The response of regional well-being to place-based policy interventions	7
The next town over: On the clustering of towns and settlements before modern economic growth	6
Working from home and corporate real estate	6
The Role of a University in Cluster Formation: Evidence from a National Institute of Science and Technology in Korea	6
Corporate responses to air quality regulation: Evidence from a regional environmental policy in China	6
The accident externality from trucking: Evidence from shale gas development	6
On the economic geography of an aging society	6
Has the effect of housing wealth on household consumption been overestimated? New evidence on magnitude and allocation	6
The micro persistence of layouts and design: Quasi-experimental evidence from the United States Housing Corporation	6
The lead-crime hypothesis: A meta-analysis	6
Measuring heterogeneous preferences for residential amenities	6
What can developing cities today learn from the urban past?	6
The spatial decay of human capital externalities - A functional regression approach with precise geo-referenced data	6
Metros, agglomeration and displacement. Evidence from London	6
The user cost of housing and the price-rent ratio in Shanghai	6
Firms, fires, and firebreaks: The impact of the 1906 San Francisco disaster on business agglomeration	6
Regional composition of national house price cycles in the US	6
Do local businesses benefit from sports facilities? The case of major league sports stadiums and arenas	6
Small things, big impact: The network-mediated spillover effect through a transport connectivity enhancement project	5
Externalities from urban renewal: Evidence from a French program	5
The impact of place-based poverty relief: Evidence from the Federal Promise Zone Program	5
Productivity growth, industry location patterns and labor market frictions	5
Is there a diminishing willingness to pay for consumption amenities as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic?	5
Environmental regulation, local labor market, and skill heterogeneity	5
Can information help Lakisha and Jamal find housing? Evidence from a low-cost online experiment of landlords	5
The labour market impacts of female internal migration: Evidence from the end of Apartheid	5
Rural-urban migration with remittances and welfare analysis	5
Viewing urban spatial history from tall buildings	5
Experimental evidence on the effects of means-tested public transportation subsidies on travel behavior	5
Cities with forking paths? Agglomeration economies in New Zealand 1976–2018	5
Geographic and temporal variation in housing filtering rates	5
The political economy of historic districts: The private, the public, and the collective	5
Income growth, income uncertainty, and urban–rural household savings rate in China	5
Agglomeration economies in developing countries: A meta-analysis	5
Tax incentives and housing decisions: Effects of the Tax Cut and Jobs Act	5
City origins	5
Should I wait or should I go? Travelling versus waiting for better healthcare	5
Hits from the Bong: The impact of recreational marijuana dispensaries on property values	5
Infrastructure and institutions: Lessons from history	4
Pecuniary effects of public housing demolitions: Evidence from Chicago	4
The rise of e-commerce and generational consumption inequality: Evidence from COVID-19 in South Korea	4
Gentrification and retail churn: Theory and evidence	4
Public good provision and local employment – Evidence from grammar school closures in East Germany	4
Do housing booms reduce fertility intentions? Evidence from the new two-child policy in China	4
Are wind turbines a mafia windfall? The unintended consequences of green incentives	4
Do financial incentives increase the acceptance of power lines? Evidence from Germany	4
Minimum wages and housing rents: Theory and evidence	4
Harm reduction or amplification? The adverse impact of a supervised injection room on housing prices	4
Sorting based on urban heritage and income: Evidence from the Amsterdam metropolitan area	4
The prices of residential land in German counties	4
Does the stick make the carrot more attractive? State mandates and uptake of renewable heating technologies	4
Housing supply in the presence of informality	4
The effects of a FAR regulation in a model of durable building with redevelopment: The case of New York City	3
A tale of two districts: The impact of district consolidation on property values in Shanghai	3
Disamenities of living close to transit tracks: Evidence from Singapore's MRT system	3
Assortative labor matching, city size, and the education level of workers	3
Immigrants and cities during the age of mass migration	3
Natural disasters and establishment performance: Evidence from the 2011 Rio de Janeiro Landslides	3
Quantitative economic geography meets history: Questions, answers and challenges	3
Government policy and land price dynamics: A quantitative assessment of China’s factor market reforms	3
The effect of the earthquake in Central Italy on the depopulation of the affected territories	3
Mortgage subsidies, homeownership, and marriage: Effects of the VA loan program	3
The effects of an “urban village” planning and zoning strategy in San Jose, California	3
Terrorism and political attitudes: Evidence from European social surveys	3
Taxed to death? Freight truck collision externalities and diesel taxes	3
Income segregation's impact on local public expenditures: Evidence from municipalities and school districts, 1980–2010	3
Does roadwork improve road speed? Evidence from urban freeways in California	3
Impact of the Community Reinvestment Act on small business employment in lower income neighborhoods	3
A consumer surplus, welfare and profit enhancing strategy for improving urban public transport networks	3
The effectiveness of job creation tax credits	3
Rush hours and urbanization	3
Disparities in COVID-19 risk exposure: Evidence from geolocation data	3
What if you build it and they don't come? How the ghost of transit past haunts transit present	3
Teleworking and housing demand	3
On rational forward-looking behavior in economic geography: An experimental analysis	2
The impact of improved passenger transport system on manufacturing plant productivity	2
Global bifurcation mechanism and local stability of identical and equidistant regions: Application to three regions and more	2
Working from home: Too much of a good thing?	2
Can legal status help unauthorized immigrants achieve the American dream? Evidence from the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program	2
The environmental impacts of protected area policy	2

Measuring the air pollution benefits of public transport projects	2
European highway networks, transportation costs, and regional income	2
Urban planning policies and the cost of living in large cities	2
Financing local public projects	2
A spatial analysis of borrowers’ mortgage termination decision – A nonparametric approach	2
Parking not included: The effect of paid residential parking on housing prices and its relationship with public transport proximity	2
Estimating the effect of land use regulation on land price: At the kink point of building height limits in Fukuoka	2
Location of housing and industry around city centre amenities	2
Capital-skill complementarity and regional inequality: A spatial general equilibrium analysis	2
Data sharing and tax enforcement: Evidence from short-term rentals in Denmark	2
The economics of China’s between-city height competition: A regression discontinuity approach	2
Do cities mitigate or exacerbate environmental damages to health?	2
Hospital quality interdependence in a competitive institutional environment: Evidence from Italy	2
Assessing the main and spillover effects of Seattle's minimum wage on establishment decisions	2
The relative importance of portable and non-portable agglomeration effects for the urban wage premium	2
Fire protection services and house prices: A regression discontinuity investigation	2
Measuring the value of rent stabilization and understanding its implications for racial inequality: Evidence from New York City	2
The housing market impacts of bicycle-sharing systems	2
Industrial structure in urban accounting	2
War shocks, migration, and historical spatial development in China	2
The effect of property taxes on businesses: Evidence from a dynamic regression discontinuity approach	2
The economic impact of UNESCO World Heritage: Evidence from Italy	2
Salience of hazard disclosure and house prices: Evidence from Christchurch, New Zealand	2
The historical impact of coal on cities	2
Highways and pedestrian deaths in US neighborhoods	2
How is rooftop solar capitalized in home prices?	2