Regional Science and Urban Economics

Papers
(The TQCC of Regional Science and Urban Economics is 6. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Hospital closure in urban and rural areas and patients’ welfare73
Do municipal mergers reduce the cost of waste management? Evidence from Japan36
Money for MetroCards: How a new card fee made transit riders invest more and lose more35
Roads, transit and spatial patterns of urbanization in São Paulo: Evidence from the second half of the twentieth century34
Mobility, segregation and inequality: Who gains from urban transportation improvements?31
Airbnb and rental markets: Evidence from Berlin30
European highway networks, transportation costs, and regional income29
Editorial Board26
Firm sorting, clustering, and vertical disintegration: Evidence from China25
Brand loyalty, managerial delegation and position choices: Bertrand versus Cournot competition24
Cities and water quality23
Immigrants' clusters and unequal access to healthcare treatments23
Equal price for equal place? Demand-driven racial discrimination in the housing market22
Agglomeration economies in developing countries: A meta-analysis21
Educational and gender heterogeneity of the rural-urban earnings premium: New evidence from Norway21
Work-from-home and cities: An elementary spatial model21
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
Cumulative impacts in environmental justice: Insights from economics and policy19
City size, family migration, and gender wage gap: Evidence from rural–urban migrants in China19
Birth dearth and local population decline18
Finding a better job: The geography of socio-professional mobility during working life18
Editorial Board18
Re-evaluating the urban wage premium: The changing roles of geographical and job transitions for women and men18
Transportation infrastructure and college admissions quality: Evidence from China's National College Entrance Examination17
Biodiversity and population density17
Paths that led to gold: Historical roads, trade, and persistence15
Spatial wage differentials, geographic frictions and the organization of labor within firms15
The heterogeneous effects of cannabis dispensaries on crime: The importance of foot traffic15
Transportation and housing markets in cities14
Transport infrastructure and urban spatial structure14
Do local businesses benefit from sports facilities? The case of major league sports stadiums and arenas13
Editorial Board13
Evaluating the long-run effects of zoning reform on urban development12
Inter-municipal cooperation cloud and tax administrative costs12
Decarbonizing passenger transportation in developing countries: Lessons and perspectives112
Editorial Board11
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 move10
High-speed rail opening and urban air quality10
The economics of China’s between-city height competition: A regression discontinuity approach10
A welfare analysis of a monocentric city model under monopolistic competition with heterogeneous firms and variable elasticity of substitution preference9
Measuring the cost of building infrastructure over time: Very hard to do well9
The impact of preferential farmland taxation on local public finances9
Housing market responses to the mortgage interest deduction9
Backward-bending labor supply and urban location9
Editorial Board9
Information technology and road safety8
The effect of the earthquake in Central Italy on the depopulation of the affected territories8
Editorial Board8
The impact of urban redevelopment for mitigating earthquake damage risk on land values8
Do households value lower density: Theory, evidence, and implications from Washington, DC8
Editorial Board8
High-tech clusters, labor demand, and inequality: Evidence from “Made in China 2025”8
The response of regional well-being to place-based policy interventions8
Government policy and land price dynamics: A quantitative assessment of China’s factor market reforms8
Data sharing and tax enforcement: Evidence from short-term rentals in Denmark7
The housing market impacts of bicycle-sharing systems7
Understanding local government debt in China: A regional competition perspective7
Learners in cities: Agglomeration and the spatial division of cognition7
Is compulsory inter-municipal cooperation an efficiency booster?7
How local is local development? Evidence from casinos7
(In)efficient commuting and migration choices: Theory and policy in an urban search model7
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 City7
Aligning incentives: The effect of mortgage servicing rules on foreclosures and delinquency7
Persistence and variation of schools as housing amenities6
Teleworking and housing demand6
Local constant-quality housing market liquidity indices6
Inter-municipal cooperation and tax enforcement capabilities6
Commuting barriers to low-wage employment6
Employer-provided parking: Departure time choice, investment decision, and welfare effects6
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 economy6
Informal land markets and ethnic kinship in West African cities6
Structural transformation and the urban growth shadows: County-level evidence from China, 1990–20206
Reducing ethnic discrimination through formal warning: Evidence from two combined field experiments6
The influence of intergovernmental transfers on local taxes: Evidence from Switzerland6
Environmental regulation, local labor market, and skill heterogeneity6
Productivity and wage effects of an exogenous improvement in transport infrastructure: Accessibility and the Great Belt Bridge6
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