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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Viewing urban spatial history from tall buildings64
Do municipal mergers reduce the cost of waste management? Evidence from Japan50
Hospital closure in urban and rural areas and patients’ welfare42
European highway networks, transportation costs, and regional income33
Roads, transit and spatial patterns of urbanization in São Paulo: Evidence from the second half of the twentieth century32
Airbnb and rental markets: Evidence from Berlin31
Editorial Board29
Firm sorting, clustering, and vertical disintegration: Evidence from China28
Brand loyalty, managerial delegation and position choices: Bertrand versus Cournot competition27
City size, family migration, and gender wage gap: Evidence from rural–urban migrants in China26
The virus that devastated tourism: The impact of covid-19 on the housing market26
Equal price for equal place? Demand-driven racial discrimination in the housing market25
Introduction to the Special Issue: "Urban economics and history"24
Water infrastructure and health in U.S. cities24
Cities and water quality23
Immigrants' clusters and unequal access to healthcare treatments23
Educational and gender heterogeneity of the rural-urban earnings premium: New evidence from Norway20
Agglomeration economies in developing countries: A meta-analysis20
Empirical behaviour of Anselin et al.’s locally robust LM tests for spatial dependence in a panel data setting20
The impact of urbanization on child growth: Evidence from city-county mergers in China20
The effects of a FAR regulation in a model of durable building with redevelopment: The case of New York City19
Birth dearth and local population decline19
Editorial Board19
Work-from-home and cities: An elementary spatial model19
Finding a better job: The geography of socio-professional mobility during working life18
Location of housing and industry around city centre amenities17
Estimating housing rent depreciation for inflation adjustments16
Re-evaluating the urban wage premium: The changing roles of geographical and job transitions for women and men16
Cumulative impacts in environmental justice: Insights from economics and policy16
Biodiversity and population density16
Decarbonizing passenger transportation in developing countries: Lessons and perspectives115
Spatial wage differentials, geographic frictions and the organization of labor within firms15
Editorial Board15
Transportation and housing markets in cities15
On the economic geography of an aging society15
What if you build it and they don't come? How the ghost of transit past haunts transit present15
Inter-municipal cooperation cloud and tax administrative costs14
The economics of China’s between-city height competition: A regression discontinuity approach14
Evaluating the long-run effects of zoning reform on urban development14
Do local businesses benefit from sports facilities? The case of major league sports stadiums and arenas14
Interaction of public and private employment: Evidence from a German government move13
The effect of the earthquake in Central Italy on the depopulation of the affected territories13
High-speed rail opening and urban air quality13
Housing market responses to the mortgage interest deduction13
Corrigendum to “Location preferences and slum formation: Evidence from a panel of residence histories” [Reg. Sci. Urban Econ., 97 (November 2022) 103816]13
The response of regional well-being to place-based policy interventions12
Do households value lower density: Theory, evidence, and implications from Washington, DC12
Backward-bending labor supply and urban location12
A welfare analysis of a monocentric city model under monopolistic competition with heterogeneous firms and variable elasticity of substitution preference12
High-tech clusters, labor demand, and inequality: Evidence from “Made in China 2025”12
The impact of urban redevelopment for mitigating earthquake damage risk on land values12
Data sharing and tax enforcement: Evidence from short-term rentals in Denmark11
The impact of preferential farmland taxation on local public finances11
Learners in cities: Agglomeration and the spatial division of cognition11
Editorial Board11
Is compulsory inter-municipal cooperation an efficiency booster?10
Immigrants and entrepreneurship: A road for talent or just the only road?10
How local is local development? Evidence from casinos9
Government policy and land price dynamics: A quantitative assessment of China’s factor market reforms9
Understanding local government debt in China: A regional competition perspective9
The effect of rezoning on local housing supply and demand: Evidence from New York City9
Reducing ethnic discrimination through formal warning: Evidence from two combined field experiments9
Information technology and road safety9
Editorial Board9
Employer-provided parking: Departure time choice, investment decision, and welfare effects8
Aligning incentives: The effect of mortgage servicing rules on foreclosures and delinquency8
Commuting barriers to low-wage employment8
Persistence and variation of schools as housing amenities8
Industrialization and urbanization in nineteenth century America8
The housing market impacts of bicycle-sharing systems8
(In)efficient commuting and migration choices: Theory and policy in an urban search model8
Teleworking and housing demand8
The influence of intergovernmental transfers on local taxes: Evidence from Switzerland8
Informal land markets and ethnic kinship in West African cities7
Local constant-quality housing market liquidity indices7
Structural transformation and the urban growth shadows: County-level evidence from China, 1990–20207
Inter-municipal cooperation and tax enforcement capabilities7
Removal notice to “When taxi drivers meet dynamic pricing: A lesson from Singapore's JustGrab program” [Reg. Sci. Urban Econ. 117 (2026) 104186]7
Productivity and wage effects of an exogenous improvement in transport infrastructure: Accessibility and the Great Belt Bridge7
Coal busts and urban recovery: Evidence from China7
High-speed rail and the spatial economy7
Environmental regulation, local labor market, and skill heterogeneity7
Editorial Board7
Stuck in traffic: Measuring congestion externalities with negative supply shocks6
Vertical migration externalities6
Editorial Board6
Recreational cannabis dispensary access effects on prescription opioid use and mortality6
Urban planning policies and the cost of living in large cities6
Socially optimal land use in a city with central amenities6
Editorial Board6
Cities in flight: The role of airports in urban development6
The relative importance of portable and non-portable agglomeration effects for the urban wage premium6
Disamenities of living close to transit tracks: Evidence from Singapore's MRT system6
Cities with forking paths? Agglomeration economies in New Zealand 1976–20186
Health facility quality peer effects: Are financial incentives necessary?6
Quantitative economic geography meets history: Questions, answers and challenges5
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
Federal tax policy and the capitalization of local public goods5
The elected official next door5
Skills and the city in China5
Revisiting property tax capitalization5
Gender and racial disparities in altruism in social networks5
Hot property. The amplifying effects of housing costs on regional inequality5
Real estate prices and land use regulations: Evidence from the Law of Heights in Bogotá5
Do grocery food taxes incentivize participation in SNAP?5
Public firms on an international border: A model of spatial price discrimination5
Capital as an anchor of agricultural employment: Evidence from the 1975 frost5
War shocks, migration, and historical spatial development in China5
Editorial Board5
R&D investments with spillovers and endogenous horizontal differentiation5
Estimating the effect of land use regulation on land price: At the kink point of building height limits in Fukuoka4
Natural disasters and establishment performance: Evidence from the 2011 Rio de Janeiro Landslides4
The income consequences of a managed retreat4
Heterogeneous effects of urban transport infrastructure on population distribution: The role of educational access4
Demographic changes and the housing market4
Small things, big impact: The network-mediated spillover effect through a transport connectivity enhancement project4
Energy-efficient investments in housing4
Has the effect of housing wealth on household consumption been overestimated? New evidence on magnitude and allocation4
Highways and pedestrian deaths in US neighborhoods4
Rational cuts? The local impact of closing undersized schools4
Complexity and colocation of the college-educated: Sort of complements4
The Economic Impact of Public Capital: Evidence from Chinese Prefectures and Firms4
Disparities in COVID-19 risk exposure: Evidence from geolocation data4
Editorial Board3
Terrorism and political attitudes: Evidence from European social surveys3
Urban accounting and welfare in Spain3
Leases over real property3
Rent-tax substitution and its impact on firms: Evidence from housing purchase limits policy in China3
Do school shootings erode property values?3
Information disclosure, search cost, and the housing market3
Your room is ready: Tourism and urban revival3
Immigrants and cities during the age of mass migration3
Spatial price discrimination in a mixed duopoly input market3
Residential rent externalities of photovoltaic systems: The relevance of view3
Organization & density-related differences in within-firm wage disparities3
Does state tax reciprocity affect interstate commuting? Evidence from a natural experiment3
Voluntary retirement savings in China: A spatial ordered probit approach3
Do cities mitigate or exacerbate environmental damages to health?2
Ideology, intergovernmental transfers, and public health spending: Evidence from South Korea2
Estimating spatial autoregressions under heteroskedasticity without searching for instruments2
Restoring inland prosperity: The impact of the New International Land-Sea Corridor on corporate internationalization and regional wealth gaps2
Surface parking lots in downtown areas and the role of regulatory delay in optimal dynamic land use2
150 years of the geography of innovation2
Impact of the Community Reinvestment Act on small business employment in lower income neighborhoods2
The micro persistence of layouts and design: Quasi-experimental evidence from the United States Housing Corporation2
The impact of place-based poverty relief: Evidence from the Federal Promise Zone Program2
A consumer surplus, welfare and profit enhancing strategy for improving urban public transport networks2
Reexamining lackluster productivity growth in construction2
Monopsony in spatial equilibrium2
Too-big-to-fail in federations?2
The lead-crime hypothesis: A meta-analysis2
Editorial Board2
Ethnicity and health at work during the COVID-192
Experimental evidence on the effects of means-tested public transportation subsidies on travel behavior2
What is in a label? On neighborhood labeling, stigma and housing prices2
Tax progressivity and mobility costs2
State government saving over the business cycle2
Refugee reception, extreme-right voting, and compositional amenities: Evidence from Italian municipalities2
Effect of local government taxes and spending on the redevelopment of commercial property2
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