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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Hospital closure in urban and rural areas and patients’ welfare	73
Do municipal mergers reduce the cost of waste management? Evidence from Japan	36
Money for MetroCards: How a new card fee made transit riders invest more and lose more	35
Roads, transit and spatial patterns of urbanization in São Paulo: Evidence from the second half of the twentieth century	34
Mobility, segregation and inequality: Who gains from urban transportation improvements?	31
Airbnb and rental markets: Evidence from Berlin	30
European highway networks, transportation costs, and regional income	29
Editorial Board	26
Firm sorting, clustering, and vertical disintegration: Evidence from China	25
Brand loyalty, managerial delegation and position choices: Bertrand versus Cournot competition	24
Immigrants' clusters and unequal access to healthcare treatments	23
Cities and water quality	23
Equal price for equal place? Demand-driven racial discrimination in the housing market	22
Educational and gender heterogeneity of the rural-urban earnings premium: New evidence from Norway	21
Work-from-home and cities: An elementary spatial model	21
Agglomeration economies in developing countries: A meta-analysis	21
The impact of urbanization on child growth: Evidence from city-county mergers in China	20
Empirical behaviour of Anselin et al.’s locally robust LM tests for spatial dependence in a panel data setting	20
Cumulative impacts in environmental justice: Insights from economics and policy	19
City size, family migration, and gender wage gap: Evidence from rural–urban migrants in China	19
Finding a better job: The geography of socio-professional mobility during working life	18
Editorial Board	18
Re-evaluating the urban wage premium: The changing roles of geographical and job transitions for women and men	18
Birth dearth and local population decline	18
Transportation infrastructure and college admissions quality: Evidence from China's National College Entrance Examination	17

Biodiversity and population density	17
Paths that led to gold: Historical roads, trade, and persistence	15
Spatial wage differentials, geographic frictions and the organization of labor within firms	15
The heterogeneous effects of cannabis dispensaries on crime: The importance of foot traffic	15
Transportation and housing markets in cities	14
Transport infrastructure and urban spatial structure	14
Do local businesses benefit from sports facilities? The case of major league sports stadiums and arenas	13
Editorial Board	13
Evaluating the long-run effects of zoning reform on urban development	12
Inter-municipal cooperation cloud and tax administrative costs	12
Decarbonizing passenger transportation in developing countries: Lessons and perspectives1	12
Editorial Board	11
Corrigendum to “Location preferences and slum formation: Evidence from a panel of residence histories” [Reg. Sci. Urban Econ., 97 (November 2022) 103816]	11
Interaction of public and private employment: Evidence from a German government move	10
High-speed rail opening and urban air quality	10
The economics of China’s between-city height competition: A regression discontinuity approach	10
The impact of preferential farmland taxation on local public finances	9
Housing market responses to the mortgage interest deduction	9
Backward-bending labor supply and urban location	9
Editorial Board	9
A welfare analysis of a monocentric city model under monopolistic competition with heterogeneous firms and variable elasticity of substitution preference	9
Measuring the cost of building infrastructure over time: Very hard to do well	9
Editorial Board	8
The impact of urban redevelopment for mitigating earthquake damage risk on land values	8
Do households value lower density: Theory, evidence, and implications from Washington, DC	8
Editorial Board	8
High-tech clusters, labor demand, and inequality: Evidence from “Made in China 2025”	8
The response of regional well-being to place-based policy interventions	8
Government policy and land price dynamics: A quantitative assessment of China’s factor market reforms	8
Information technology and road safety	8
The effect of the earthquake in Central Italy on the depopulation of the affected territories	8
Data sharing and tax enforcement: Evidence from short-term rentals in Denmark	7
The housing market impacts of bicycle-sharing systems	7
Understanding local government debt in China: A regional competition perspective	7
Learners in cities: Agglomeration and the spatial division of cognition	7
Is compulsory inter-municipal cooperation an efficiency booster?	7
How local is local development? Evidence from casinos	7
(In)efficient commuting and migration choices: Theory and policy in an urban search model	7
Immigrants and entrepreneurship: A road for talent or just the only road?	7
The effect of rezoning on local housing supply and demand: Evidence from New York City	7
Aligning incentives: The effect of mortgage servicing rules on foreclosures and delinquency	7
Local constant-quality housing market liquidity indices	6
Inter-municipal cooperation and tax enforcement capabilities	6
Commuting barriers to low-wage employment	6
Employer-provided parking: Departure time choice, investment decision, and welfare effects	6
Removal notice to “When taxi drivers meet dynamic pricing: A lesson from Singapore's JustGrab program” [Reg. Sci. Urban Econ. 117 (2026) 104186]	6
High-speed rail and the spatial economy	6
Informal land markets and ethnic kinship in West African cities	6
Structural transformation and the urban growth shadows: County-level evidence from China, 1990–2020	6
Reducing ethnic discrimination through formal warning: Evidence from two combined field experiments	6

The influence of intergovernmental transfers on local taxes: Evidence from Switzerland	6
Environmental regulation, local labor market, and skill heterogeneity	6
Productivity and wage effects of an exogenous improvement in transport infrastructure: Accessibility and the Great Belt Bridge	6
Persistence and variation of schools as housing amenities	6
Teleworking and housing demand	6
Editorial Board	5
Recreational cannabis dispensary access effects on prescription opioid use and mortality	5
Health facility quality peer effects: Are financial incentives necessary?	5
Editorial Board	5
Vertical migration externalities	5
Upzoning with strings attached: Evidence from Seattle’s affordable housing mandate	5
Disamenities of living close to transit tracks: Evidence from Singapore's MRT system	5
Coal busts and urban recovery: Evidence from China	5
Dormitories or grants? Need-based aid and university students’ mobility in Italy	5
Socially optimal land use in a city with central amenities	5
Editorial Board	5
Stuck in traffic: Measuring congestion externalities with negative supply shocks	5
Revisiting property tax capitalization	4
Editorial Board	4
Refugees welcome? Understanding the regional heterogeneity of anti-refugee hate crime	4
Capital as an anchor of agricultural employment: Evidence from the 1975 frost	4
The urban wage premium in historical perspective	4
Gender and racial disparities in altruism in social networks	4
Cities in flight: The role of airports in urban development	4
Hot property. The amplifying effects of housing costs on regional inequality	4
Public firms on an international border: A model of spatial price discrimination	4
Urban planning policies and the cost of living in large cities	4
Skills and the city in China	3
Editorial Board	3
Energy-efficient investments in housing	3
Rational cuts? The local impact of closing undersized schools	3
Dynamic agglomeration effects of foreigners and natives – The role of experience in high-quality sectors, tasks and establishments	3
Real estate prices and land use regulations: Evidence from the Law of Heights in Bogotá	3
Estimating the effect of land use regulation on land price: At the kink point of building height limits in Fukuoka	3
Sport stadiums & land values	3
R&D investments with spillovers and endogenous horizontal differentiation	3
Using the past to understand cities: Transportation before the Industrial Revolution in Urban Economics	3
Bringing together what belonged together: The case of divided cities in Europe	3
The elected official next door	3
Federal tax policy and the capitalization of local public goods	3
Rent-tax substitution and its impact on firms: Evidence from housing purchase limits policy in China	2
Do cities mitigate or exacerbate environmental damages to health?	2
Your room is ready: Tourism and urban revival	2
Does decentralization improve allocative efficiency? Evidence from the Province-Managing-County Reform in China	2
Editorial Board	2
Information disclosure, search cost, and the housing market	2
Urban accounting and welfare in Spain	2
The Economic Impact of Public Capital: Evidence from Chinese Prefectures and Firms	2
Heterogeneous effects of urban transport infrastructure on population distribution: The role of educational access	2
Estimating spatial autoregressions under heteroskedasticity without searching for instruments	2
Ethnicity and health at work during the COVID-19	2
Experimental evidence on the effects of means-tested public transportation subsidies on travel behavior	2
Residential rent externalities of photovoltaic systems: The relevance of view	2
Spatial price discrimination in a mixed duopoly input market	2
Terrorism and political attitudes: Evidence from European social surveys	2
Leases over real property	2
Highways and pedestrian deaths in US neighborhoods	2
Complexity and colocation of the college-educated: Sort of complements	2
Identifying the growth effect of internet penetration	2
Voluntary retirement savings in China: A spatial ordered probit approach	2
Restoring inland prosperity: The impact of the New International Land-Sea Corridor on corporate internationalization and regional wealth gaps	2
Tax progressivity and mobility costs	2
Do school shootings erode property values?	2
Disparities in COVID-19 risk exposure: Evidence from geolocation data	2
Does state tax reciprocity affect interstate commuting? Evidence from a natural experiment	2
The income consequences of a managed retreat	2
Small things, big impact: The network-mediated spillover effect through a transport connectivity enhancement project	2