OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Regional Science and Urban Economics is 8. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Hospital closure in urban and rural areas and patients’ welfare	125
Spillover effects from new housing supply	104
Do municipal mergers reduce the cost of waste management? Evidence from Japan	98
European highway networks, transportation costs, and regional income	46
Airbnb and rental markets: Evidence from Berlin	41
Viewing urban spatial history from tall buildings	39
Roads, transit and spatial patterns of urbanization in São Paulo: Evidence from the second half of the twentieth century	39
Empirical behaviour of Anselin et al.’s locally robust LM tests for spatial dependence in a panel data setting	38
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Firm sorting, clustering, and vertical disintegration: Evidence from China	36
Equal price for equal place? Demand-driven racial discrimination in the housing market	32
Immigrants' clusters and unequal access to healthcare treatments	32
Brand loyalty, managerial delegation and position choices: Bertrand versus Cournot competition	29
Cities and water quality	27
Agglomeration economies in developing countries: A meta-analysis	25
The virus that devastated tourism: The impact of covid-19 on the housing market	24
Work-from-home and cities: An elementary spatial model	24
Water infrastructure and health in U.S. cities	23
Introduction to the Special Issue: "Urban economics and history"	23
Educational and gender heterogeneity of the rural-urban earnings premium: New evidence from Norway	23
City size, family migration, and gender wage gap: Evidence from rural–urban migrants in China	22
Biodiversity and population density	22
Local inequalities of the COVID-19 crisis	22
Re-evaluating the urban wage premium: The changing roles of geographical and job transitions for women and men	22
Estimating housing rent depreciation for inflation adjustments	20

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The effects of a FAR regulation in a model of durable building with redevelopment: The case of New York City	19
Introduction to special issue on rural-urban migration in honor of Harris and Todaro	19
Cumulative impacts in environmental justice: Insights from economics and policy	18
Location of housing and industry around city centre amenities	18
Spatial wage differentials, geographic frictions and the organization of labor within firms	17
What if you build it and they don't come? How the ghost of transit past haunts transit present	16
Decarbonizing passenger transportation in developing countries: Lessons and perspectives1	16
Do local businesses benefit from sports facilities? The case of major league sports stadiums and arenas	15
Inter-municipal cooperation cloud and tax administrative costs	15
Consumer salience and quality provision in (un)regulated public service markets	15
On the economic geography of an aging society	15
Evaluating the long-run effects of zoning reform on urban development	15
Interaction of public and private employment: Evidence from a German government move	14
The economics of China’s between-city height competition: A regression discontinuity approach	14
High-speed rail opening and urban air quality	14
Do households value lower density: Theory, evidence, and implications from Washington, DC	14
Corrigendum to “Location preferences and slum formation: Evidence from a panel of residence histories” [Reg. Sci. Urban Econ., 97 (November 2022) 103816]	14
Backward-bending labor supply and urban location	13
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Government policy and land price dynamics: A quantitative assessment of China’s factor market reforms	12
The response of regional well-being to place-based policy interventions	12
Immigrants and entrepreneurship: A road for talent or just the only road?	12
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Rural-urban migration and house prices in China	12
Data sharing and tax enforcement: Evidence from short-term rentals in Denmark	12
Understanding local government debt in China: A regional competition perspective	12
The impact of preferential farmland taxation on local public finances	12
The effect of the earthquake in Central Italy on the depopulation of the affected territories	12
Learners in cities: Agglomeration and the spatial division of cognition	11
Employer-provided parking: Departure time choice, investment decision, and welfare effects	11
Persistence and variation of schools as housing amenities	11
Homeowner associations and city cohesion	11
Teleworking and housing demand	11
Industrialization and urbanization in nineteenth century America	10
The housing market impacts of bicycle-sharing systems	10
(In)efficient commuting and migration choices: Theory and policy in an urban search model	10
Industrial structure in urban accounting	10
Reducing ethnic discrimination through formal warning: Evidence from two combined field experiments	10
Aligning incentives: The effect of mortgage servicing rules on foreclosures and delinquency	10
Local constant-quality housing market liquidity indices	9
Informal land markets and ethnic kinship in West African cities	9
Productivity and wage effects of an exogenous improvement in transport infrastructure: Accessibility and the Great Belt Bridge	9
Inter-municipal cooperation and tax enforcement capabilities	9
Vertical migration externalities	8
Environmental regulation, local labor market, and skill heterogeneity	8
Coal busts and urban recovery: Evidence from China	8
Commuting barriers to low-wage employment	8
Recreational cannabis dispensary access effects on prescription opioid use and mortality	8

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