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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Do municipal mergers reduce the cost of waste management? Evidence from Japan	68
European highway networks, transportation costs, and regional income	42
Hospital closure in urban and rural areas and patients’ welfare	33
Airbnb and rental markets: Evidence from Berlin	32
Roads, transit and spatial patterns of urbanization in São Paulo: Evidence from the second half of the twentieth century	30
Money for MetroCards: How a new card fee made transit riders invest more and lose more	29
Brand loyalty, managerial delegation and position choices: Bertrand versus Cournot competition	27
Firm sorting, clustering, and vertical disintegration: Evidence from China	27
Editorial Board	27
Equal price for equal place? Demand-driven racial discrimination in the housing market	24
Work-from-home and cities: An elementary spatial model	22
Empirical behaviour of Anselin et al.’s locally robust LM tests for spatial dependence in a panel data setting	20
The virus that devastated tourism: The impact of covid-19 on the housing market	20
City size, family migration, and gender wage gap: Evidence from rural–urban migrants in China	20
Immigrants' clusters and unequal access to healthcare treatments	20
The impact of urbanization on child growth: Evidence from city-county mergers in China	20
Cities and water quality	19
Educational and gender heterogeneity of the rural-urban earnings premium: New evidence from Norway	19
Birth dearth and local population decline	18
Agglomeration economies in developing countries: A meta-analysis	18
The effects of a FAR regulation in a model of durable building with redevelopment: The case of New York City	17
Finding a better job: The geography of socio-professional mobility during working life	17
Editorial Board	17
Re-evaluating the urban wage premium: The changing roles of geographical and job transitions for women and men	16
The heterogeneous effects of cannabis dispensaries on crime: The importance of foot traffic	15

Location of housing and industry around city centre amenities	15
Transportation infrastructure and college admissions quality: Evidence from China's National College Entrance Examination	15
Estimating housing rent depreciation for inflation adjustments	15
Cumulative impacts in environmental justice: Insights from economics and policy	15
Biodiversity and population density	15
Transportation and housing markets in cities	14
Spatial wage differentials, geographic frictions and the organization of labor within firms	14
Editorial Board	13
On the economic geography of an aging society	13
Paths that led to gold: Historical roads, trade, and persistence	13
Decarbonizing passenger transportation in developing countries: Lessons and perspectives1	13
The economics of China’s between-city height competition: A regression discontinuity approach	12
Evaluating the long-run effects of zoning reform on urban development	12
Corrigendum to “Location preferences and slum formation: Evidence from a panel of residence histories” [Reg. Sci. Urban Econ., 97 (November 2022) 103816]	12
Inter-municipal cooperation cloud and tax administrative costs	12
Do local businesses benefit from sports facilities? The case of major league sports stadiums and arenas	12
Interaction of public and private employment: Evidence from a German government move	11
High-speed rail opening and urban air quality	11
Housing market responses to the mortgage interest deduction	10
The effect of the earthquake in Central Italy on the depopulation of the affected territories	10
The impact of urban redevelopment for mitigating earthquake damage risk on land values	9
A welfare analysis of a monocentric city model under monopolistic competition with heterogeneous firms and variable elasticity of substitution preference	9
The response of regional well-being to place-based policy interventions	9
The impact of preferential farmland taxation on local public finances	9
High-tech clusters, labor demand, and inequality: Evidence from “Made in China 2025”	9
Do households value lower density: Theory, evidence, and implications from Washington, DC	9
Backward-bending labor supply and urban location	9
Information technology and road safety	8
Editorial Board	8
Learners in cities: Agglomeration and the spatial division of cognition	8
Editorial Board	8
Government policy and land price dynamics: A quantitative assessment of China’s factor market reforms	8
Immigrants and entrepreneurship: A road for talent or just the only road?	8
Editorial Board	8
The effect of rezoning on local housing supply and demand: Evidence from New York City	8
Is compulsory inter-municipal cooperation an efficiency booster?	8
Measuring the cost of building infrastructure over time: Very hard to do well	8
The housing market impacts of bicycle-sharing systems	7
Data sharing and tax enforcement: Evidence from short-term rentals in Denmark	7
Employer-provided parking: Departure time choice, investment decision, and welfare effects	7
Reducing ethnic discrimination through formal warning: Evidence from two combined field experiments	7
(In)efficient commuting and migration choices: Theory and policy in an urban search model	7
Aligning incentives: The effect of mortgage servicing rules on foreclosures and delinquency	7
Understanding local government debt in China: A regional competition perspective	7
Persistence and variation of schools as housing amenities	6
Informal land markets and ethnic kinship in West African cities	6
Environmental regulation, local labor market, and skill heterogeneity	6
High-speed rail and the spatial economy	6
Editorial Board	6
Commuting barriers to low-wage employment	6

How local is local development? Evidence from casinos	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
Structural transformation and the urban growth shadows: County-level evidence from China, 1990–2020	6
Local constant-quality housing market liquidity indices	6
Vertical migration externalities	6
Teleworking and housing demand	6
Productivity and wage effects of an exogenous improvement in transport infrastructure: Accessibility and the Great Belt Bridge	6
Inter-municipal cooperation and tax enforcement capabilities	6
The influence of intergovernmental transfers on local taxes: Evidence from Switzerland	6
Coal busts and urban recovery: Evidence from China	6
Cities with forking paths? Agglomeration economies in New Zealand 1976–2018	6
Revisiting property tax capitalization	5
The relative importance of portable and non-portable agglomeration effects for the urban wage premium	5
Editorial Board	5
Stuck in traffic: Measuring congestion externalities with negative supply shocks	5
Refugees welcome? Understanding the regional heterogeneity of anti-refugee hate crime	5
Cities in flight: The role of airports in urban development	5
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
Urban planning policies and the cost of living in large cities	5
Socially optimal land use in a city with central amenities	5
Upzoning with strings attached: Evidence from Seattle’s affordable housing mandate	5
Hot property. The amplifying effects of housing costs on regional inequality	5
Disamenities of living close to transit tracks: Evidence from Singapore's MRT system	5
Capital as an anchor of agricultural employment: Evidence from the 1975 frost	4
Dynamic agglomeration effects of foreigners and natives – The role of experience in high-quality sectors, tasks and establishments	4
The elected official next door	4
Using the past to understand cities: Transportation before the Industrial Revolution in Urban Economics	4
Gender and racial disparities in altruism in social networks	4
Skills and the city in China	4
Federal tax policy and the capitalization of local public goods	4
Public firms on an international border: A model of spatial price discrimination	4
Editorial Board	4
Editorial Board	4
Real estate prices and land use regulations: Evidence from the Law of Heights in Bogotá	4
Rational cuts? The local impact of closing undersized schools	3
Natural disasters and establishment performance: Evidence from the 2011 Rio de Janeiro Landslides	3
The income consequences of a managed retreat	3
Small things, big impact: The network-mediated spillover effect through a transport connectivity enhancement project	3
Bringing together what belonged together: The case of divided cities in Europe	3
Highways and pedestrian deaths in US neighborhoods	3
Complexity and colocation of the college-educated: Sort of complements	3
Energy-efficient investments in housing	3
Do grocery food taxes incentivize participation in SNAP?	3
Estimating the effect of land use regulation on land price: At the kink point of building height limits in Fukuoka	3
The Economic Impact of Public Capital: Evidence from Chinese Prefectures and Firms	3
R&D investments with spillovers and endogenous horizontal differentiation	3
Does state tax reciprocity affect interstate commuting? Evidence from a natural experiment	2
Has the effect of housing wealth on household consumption been overestimated? New evidence on magnitude and allocation	2
Demographic changes and the housing market	2
Your room is ready: Tourism and urban revival	2
Ideology, intergovernmental transfers, and public health spending: Evidence from South Korea	2
Does decentralization improve allocative efficiency? Evidence from the Province-Managing-County Reform in China	2
Do school shootings erode property values?	2
Residential rent externalities of photovoltaic systems: The relevance of view	2
Information disclosure, search cost, and the housing market	2
Urban accounting and welfare in Spain	2
Disparities in COVID-19 risk exposure: Evidence from geolocation data	2
Terrorism and political attitudes: Evidence from European social surveys	2
Experimental evidence on the effects of means-tested public transportation subsidies on travel behavior	2
Tax progressivity and mobility costs	2
Rent-tax substitution and its impact on firms: Evidence from housing purchase limits policy in China	2
Editorial Board	2
Leases over real property	2
Organization & density-related differences in within-firm wage disparities	2
Identifying the growth effect of internet penetration	2
Heterogeneous effects of urban transport infrastructure on population distribution: The role of educational access	2
Voluntary retirement savings in China: A spatial ordered probit approach	2
Estimating spatial autoregressions under heteroskedasticity without searching for instruments	2
Restoring inland prosperity: The impact of the New International Land-Sea Corridor on corporate internationalization and regional wealth gaps	2
Spatial price discrimination in a mixed duopoly input market	2