OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Hospital closure in urban and rural areas and patients’ welfare	114
Do municipal mergers reduce the cost of waste management? Evidence from Japan	107
Roads, transit and spatial patterns of urbanization in São Paulo: Evidence from the second half of the twentieth century	48
Airbnb and rental markets: Evidence from Berlin	43
Spillover effects from new housing supply	41
Viewing urban spatial history from tall buildings	40
European highway networks, transportation costs, and regional income	38
Cities and water quality	36
Editorial Board	33
Firm sorting, clustering, and vertical disintegration: Evidence from China	31
Work-from-home and cities: An elementary spatial model	27
City size, family migration, and gender wage gap: Evidence from rural–urban migrants in China	27
Equal price for equal place? Demand-driven racial discrimination in the housing market	26
Brand loyalty, managerial delegation and position choices: Bertrand versus Cournot competition	24
Empirical behaviour of Anselin et al.’s locally robust LM tests for spatial dependence in a panel data setting	24
Immigrants' clusters and unequal access to healthcare treatments	24
Introduction to the Special Issue: "Urban economics and history"	24
Local inequalities of the COVID-19 crisis	23
Educational and gender heterogeneity of the rural-urban earnings premium: New evidence from Norway	22
The virus that devastated tourism: The impact of covid-19 on the housing market	21
Water infrastructure and health in U.S. cities	21
Editorial Board	20
Agglomeration economies in developing countries: A meta-analysis	20
Estimating housing rent depreciation for inflation adjustments	19
Re-evaluating the urban wage premium: The changing roles of geographical and job transitions for women and men	19

The effects of a FAR regulation in a model of durable building with redevelopment: The case of New York City	17
Cumulative impacts in environmental justice: Insights from economics and policy	17
Editorial Board	17
Location of housing and industry around city centre amenities	16
Biodiversity and population density	15
Finding a better job: The geography of socio-professional mobility during working life	15
Spatial wage differentials, geographic frictions and the organization of labor within firms	15
Birth dearth and local population decline	15
Consumer salience and quality provision in (un)regulated public service markets	14
Decarbonizing passenger transportation in developing countries: Lessons and perspectives1	14
What if you build it and they don't come? How the ghost of transit past haunts transit present	14
Editorial Board	14
Do local businesses benefit from sports facilities? The case of major league sports stadiums and arenas	14
Inter-municipal cooperation cloud and tax administrative costs	14
On the economic geography of an aging society	14
High-speed rail opening and urban air quality	13
Evaluating the long-run effects of zoning reform on urban development	13
The economics of China’s between-city height competition: A regression discontinuity approach	13
Corrigendum to “Location preferences and slum formation: Evidence from a panel of residence histories” [Reg. Sci. Urban Econ., 97 (November 2022) 103816]	13
Backward-bending labor supply and urban location	12
Interaction of public and private employment: Evidence from a German government move	12
The impact of preferential farmland taxation on local public finances	12
Do households value lower density: Theory, evidence, and implications from Washington, DC	12
High-tech clusters, labor demand, and inequality: Evidence from “Made in China 2025”	12
Information technology and road safety	11
The impact of urban redevelopment for mitigating earthquake damage risk on land values	11
The response of regional well-being to place-based policy interventions	11
Editorial Board	11
The effect of the earthquake in Central Italy on the depopulation of the affected territories	11
Understanding local government debt in China: A regional competition perspective	10
The housing market impacts of bicycle-sharing systems	10
Learners in cities: Agglomeration and the spatial division of cognition	10
Immigrants and entrepreneurship: A road for talent or just the only road?	10
Government policy and land price dynamics: A quantitative assessment of China’s factor market reforms	10
Editorial Board	10
How local is local development? Evidence from casinos	10
Data sharing and tax enforcement: Evidence from short-term rentals in Denmark	10
(In)efficient commuting and migration choices: Theory and policy in an urban search model	9
Aligning incentives: The effect of mortgage servicing rules on foreclosures and delinquency	9
Reducing ethnic discrimination through formal warning: Evidence from two combined field experiments	9
Homeowner associations and city cohesion	9
Persistence and variation of schools as housing amenities	8
Inter-municipal cooperation and tax enforcement capabilities	8
Teleworking and housing demand	8
Employer-provided parking: Departure time choice, investment decision, and welfare effects	8
Industrialization and urbanization in nineteenth century America	8
Informal land markets and ethnic kinship in West African cities	8
The influence of intergovernmental transfers on local taxes: Evidence from Switzerland	7
Environmental regulation, local labor market, and skill heterogeneity	7
Local constant-quality housing market liquidity indices	7

Productivity and wage effects of an exogenous improvement in transport infrastructure: Accessibility and the Great Belt Bridge	7
Coal busts and urban recovery: Evidence from China	7
Commuting barriers to low-wage employment	7
Structural transformation and the urban growth shadows: County-level evidence from China, 1990–2020	7
Editorial Board	7
Cities with forking paths? Agglomeration economies in New Zealand 1976–2018	6
The relative importance of portable and non-portable agglomeration effects for the urban wage premium	6
Recreational cannabis dispensary access effects on prescription opioid use and mortality	6
Editorial Board	6
Public firms on an international border: A model of spatial price discrimination	6
Editorial Board	6
Vertical migration externalities	6
Disamenities of living close to transit tracks: Evidence from Singapore's MRT system	6
Health facility quality peer effects: Are financial incentives necessary?	6
Socially optimal land use in a city with central amenities	6
Stuck in traffic: Measuring congestion externalities with negative supply shocks	6
Urban planning policies and the cost of living in large cities	6
Energy-efficient investments in housing	5
Capital as an anchor of agricultural employment: Evidence from the 1975 frost	5
The user cost of housing and the price-rent ratio in Shanghai	5
Gender and racial disparities in altruism in social networks	5
War shocks, migration, and historical spatial development in China	5
R&D investments with spillovers and endogenous horizontal differentiation	5
Real estate prices and land use regulations: Evidence from the Law of Heights in Bogotá	5
Do applications respond to changes in asylum policies in European countries?	5
Editorial Board	5
Skills and the city in China	5
Editorial Board	5
Federal tax policy and the capitalization of local public goods	5
Editorial Board	5
Refugees welcome? Understanding the regional heterogeneity of anti-refugee hate crime	5
Dynamic agglomeration effects of foreigners and natives – The role of experience in high-quality sectors, tasks and establishments	5
Revisiting property tax capitalization	5
Quantitative economic geography meets history: Questions, answers and challenges	5
The Economic Impact of Public Capital: Evidence from Chinese Prefectures and Firms	4
Small things, big impact: The network-mediated spillover effect through a transport connectivity enhancement project	4
The income consequences of a managed retreat	4
Natural disasters and establishment performance: Evidence from the 2011 Rio de Janeiro Landslides	4
Your room is ready: Tourism and urban revival	4
Estimating the effect of land use regulation on land price: At the kink point of building height limits in Fukuoka	4
The elected official next door	4
Do grocery food taxes incentivize participation in SNAP?	4
Demographic changes and the housing market	4
Leases over real property	4
Rational cuts? The local impact of closing undersized schools	4
Complexity and colocation of the college-educated: Sort of complements	4
Highways and pedestrian deaths in US neighborhoods	4
Has the effect of housing wealth on household consumption been overestimated? New evidence on magnitude and allocation	4
Geographic and temporal variation in housing filtering rates	4
Do school shootings erode property values?	3
Organization & density-related differences in within-firm wage disparities	3
Disparities in COVID-19 risk exposure: Evidence from geolocation data	3
Terrorism and political attitudes: Evidence from European social surveys	3
Editorial Board	3
Congestion and consolidation: An empirical study of a barge shipping merger	3
Rent-tax substitution and its impact on firms: Evidence from housing purchase limits policy in China	3
Heterogeneous effects of urban transport infrastructure on population distribution: The role of educational access	3
Voluntary retirement savings in China: A spatial ordered probit approach	3
Residential rent externalities of photovoltaic systems: The relevance of view	3
Urban accounting and welfare in Spain	3
Does state tax reciprocity affect interstate commuting? Evidence from a natural experiment	3
Immigrants and cities during the age of mass migration	3
Information disclosure, search cost, and the housing market	3
Spatial price discrimination in a mixed duopoly input market	3
Reexamining lackluster productivity growth in construction	2
Experimental evidence on the effects of means-tested public transportation subsidies on travel behavior	2
Ideology, intergovernmental transfers, and public health spending: Evidence from South Korea	2
Restoring inland prosperity: The impact of the New International Land-Sea Corridor on corporate internationalization and regional wealth gaps	2
Estimating spatial autoregressions under heteroskedasticity without searching for instruments	2
The impact of place-based poverty relief: Evidence from the Federal Promise Zone Program	2
A consumer surplus, welfare and profit enhancing strategy for improving urban public transport networks	2
Do cities mitigate or exacerbate environmental damages to health?	2
Monopsony in spatial equilibrium	2
Ethnicity and health at work during the COVID-19	2
Tax progressivity and mobility costs	2