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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board119
Hospital closure in urban and rural areas and patients’ welfare102
Do municipal mergers reduce the cost of waste management? Evidence from Japan94
Viewing urban spatial history from tall buildings46
Spillover effects from new housing supply39
Roads, transit and spatial patterns of urbanization in São Paulo: Evidence from the second half of the twentieth century39
Airbnb and rental markets: Evidence from Berlin38
European highway networks, transportation costs, and regional income38
Introduction to the Special Issue: "Urban economics and history"37
Educational and gender heterogeneity of the rural-urban earnings premium: New evidence from Norway36
Water infrastructure and health in U.S. cities35
Local inequalities of the COVID-19 crisis32
Work-from-home and cities: An elementary spatial model31
Editorial Board29
Firm sorting, clustering, and vertical disintegration: Evidence from China26
Equal price for equal place? Demand-driven racial discrimination in the housing market24
Brand loyalty, managerial delegation and position choices: Bertrand versus Cournot competition23
Immigrants' clusters and unequal access to healthcare treatments23
Empirical behaviour of Anselin et al.’s locally robust LM tests for spatial dependence in a panel data setting22
Cities and water quality22
Agglomeration economies in developing countries: A meta-analysis22
The effects of a FAR regulation in a model of durable building with redevelopment: The case of New York City21
City size, family migration, and gender wage gap: Evidence from rural–urban migrants in China21
The virus that devastated tourism: The impact of covid-19 on the housing market21
Introduction to special issue on rural-urban migration in honor of Harris and Todaro20
Editorial Board19
Re-evaluating the urban wage premium: The changing roles of geographical and job transitions for women and men19
Editorial Board19
Cumulative impacts in environmental justice: Insights from economics and policy19
Location of housing and industry around city centre amenities18
Spatial wage differentials, geographic frictions and the organization of labor within firms18
Estimating housing rent depreciation for inflation adjustments18
What if you build it and they don't come? How the ghost of transit past haunts transit present16
Do local businesses benefit from sports facilities? The case of major league sports stadiums and arenas15
Decarbonizing passenger transportation in developing countries: Lessons and perspectives115
Consumer salience and quality provision in (un)regulated public service markets15
On the economic geography of an aging society15
Corrigendum to “Location preferences and slum formation: Evidence from a panel of residence histories” [Reg. Sci. Urban Econ., 97 (November 2022) 103816]14
The effectiveness of job creation tax credits14
Inter-municipal cooperation cloud and tax administrative costs14
Evaluating the long-run effects of zoning reform on urban development14
High-speed rail opening and urban air quality14
Interaction of public and private employment: Evidence from a German government move13
The economics of China’s between-city height competition: A regression discontinuity approach13
Backward-bending labor supply and urban location13
The impact of preferential farmland taxation on local public finances12
The impact of urban redevelopment for mitigating earthquake damage risk on land values12
Do households value lower density: Theory, evidence, and implications from Washington, DC12
The response of regional well-being to place-based policy interventions12
The effect of the earthquake in Central Italy on the depopulation of the affected territories11
Learners in cities: Agglomeration and the spatial division of cognition11
Data sharing and tax enforcement: Evidence from short-term rentals in Denmark11
Rural-urban migration and house prices in China11
Immigrants and entrepreneurship: A road for talent or just the only road?11
Editorial Board11
Understanding local government debt in China: A regional competition perspective11
Industrial structure in urban accounting10
Teleworking and housing demand10
Homeowner associations and city cohesion10
Persistence and variation of schools as housing amenities10
Reducing ethnic discrimination through formal warning: Evidence from two combined field experiments10
(In)efficient commuting and migration choices: Theory and policy in an urban search model10
Government policy and land price dynamics: A quantitative assessment of China’s factor market reforms10
Industrialization and urbanization in nineteenth century America10
Aligning incentives: The effect of mortgage servicing rules on foreclosures and delinquency10
Employer-provided parking: Departure time choice, investment decision, and welfare effects10
Commuting barriers to low-wage employment9
The housing market impacts of bicycle-sharing systems9
Informal land markets and ethnic kinship in West African cities9
Productivity and wage effects of an exogenous improvement in transport infrastructure: Accessibility and the Great Belt Bridge9
Local constant-quality housing market liquidity indices9
Environmental regulation, local labor market, and skill heterogeneity8
Coal busts and urban recovery: Evidence from China8
Inter-municipal cooperation and tax enforcement capabilities8
Editorial Board8
Income segregation's impact on local public expenditures: Evidence from municipalities and school districts, 1980–20108
Vertical migration externalities7
Rural-urban migration in developing countries: Lessons from the literature7
Capital as an anchor of agricultural employment: Evidence from the 1975 frost7
Urban planning policies and the cost of living in large cities7
Recreational cannabis dispensary access effects on prescription opioid use and mortality7
Editorial Board7
Sorting based on urban heritage and income: Evidence from the Amsterdam metropolitan area7
Stuck in traffic: Measuring congestion externalities with negative supply shocks7
Cities with forking paths? Agglomeration economies in New Zealand 1976–20187
The relative importance of portable and non-portable agglomeration effects for the urban wage premium7
Editorial Board7
Health facility quality peer effects: Are financial incentives necessary?7
Disamenities of living close to transit tracks: Evidence from Singapore's MRT system7
Public firms on an international border: A model of spatial price discrimination6
Refugees welcome? Understanding the regional heterogeneity of anti-refugee hate crime6
Dynamic agglomeration effects of foreigners and natives – The role of experience in high-quality sectors, tasks and establishments6
Do applications respond to changes in asylum policies in European countries?6
Skills and the city in China6
Gender and racial disparities in altruism in social networks6
Revisiting property tax capitalization6
The user cost of housing and the price-rent ratio in Shanghai6
Editorial Board6
Do grocery food taxes incentivize participation in SNAP?5
Small things, big impact: The network-mediated spillover effect through a transport connectivity enhancement project5
War shocks, migration, and historical spatial development in China5
Editorial Board5
Estimating the effect of land use regulation on land price: At the kink point of building height limits in Fukuoka5
R&D investments with spillovers and endogenous horizontal differentiation5
Rural-urban migration with remittances and welfare analysis5
Editorial Board5
The elected official next door5
Quantitative economic geography meets history: Questions, answers and challenges5
The labour market impacts of female internal migration: Evidence from the end of Apartheid5
Real estate prices and land use regulations: Evidence from the Law of Heights in Bogotá5
Energy-efficient investments in housing5
Rational cuts? The local impact of closing undersized schools5
Has the effect of housing wealth on household consumption been overestimated? New evidence on magnitude and allocation4
Demographic changes and the housing market4
Complexity and colocation of the college-educated: Sort of complements4
Organization & density-related differences in within-firm wage disparities4
Rent-tax substitution and its impact on firms: Evidence from housing purchase limits policy in China4
The Economic Impact of Public Capital: Evidence from Chinese Prefectures and Firms4
Highways and pedestrian deaths in US neighborhoods4
Natural disasters and establishment performance: Evidence from the 2011 Rio de Janeiro Landslides4
Disparities in COVID-19 risk exposure: Evidence from geolocation data4
Geographic and temporal variation in housing filtering rates4
Federal tax policy and the capitalization of local public goods4
The income consequences of a managed retreat4
Can information help Lakisha and Jamal find housing? Evidence from a low-cost online experiment of landlords4
Immigrants and cities during the age of mass migration4
Heterogeneous effects of urban transport infrastructure on population distribution: The role of educational access4
Does state tax reciprocity affect interstate commuting? Evidence from a natural experiment3
Reexamining lackluster productivity growth in construction3
A consumer surplus, welfare and profit enhancing strategy for improving urban public transport networks3
Your room is ready: Tourism and urban revival3
Voluntary retirement savings in China: A spatial ordered probit approach3
Congestion and consolidation: An empirical study of a barge shipping merger3
Residential rent externalities of photovoltaic systems: The relevance of view3
Ethnicity and health at work during the COVID-193
Experimental evidence on the effects of means-tested public transportation subsidies on travel behavior3
Terrorism and political attitudes: Evidence from European social surveys3
Editorial Board3
Do school shootings erode property values?3
Estimating spatial autoregressions under heteroskedasticity without searching for instruments3
Monopsony in spatial equilibrium3
Leases over real property3
Spatial price discrimination in a mixed duopoly input market3
Refugee reception, extreme-right voting, and compositional amenities: Evidence from Italian municipalities2
Restoring inland prosperity: The impact of the New International Land-Sea Corridor on corporate internationalization and regional wealth gaps2
The economic impact of a casino monopoly: Evidence from Atlantic City2
Impact of the Community Reinvestment Act on small business employment in lower income neighborhoods2
Metros, agglomeration and displacement. Evidence from London2
The impact of place-based poverty relief: Evidence from the Federal Promise Zone Program2
Tax progressivity and mobility costs2
Do cities mitigate or exacerbate environmental damages to health?2
Too-big-to-fail in federations?2
Editorial Board2
The lead-crime hypothesis: A meta-analysis2
Ideology, intergovernmental transfers, and public health spending: Evidence from South Korea2
The micro persistence of layouts and design: Quasi-experimental evidence from the United States Housing Corporation2
State government saving over the business cycle2
Temporal dynamics of rent regulations – The case of the German rent control2
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