OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Economic Development Quarterly is 0. 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.)

Article	Citations
COVID-19, the New Urban Crisis, and Cities: How COVID-19 Compounds the Influence of Economic Segregation and Inequality on Metropolitan Economic Performance	30
Day-Labor Worker Centers: Advancing New Models of Equity and Inclusion in the Informal Economy	23
Assessing the Tax Impacts and Community Benefits of Nonprofit Hospitals with IMPLAN	13
Banking for the Other Half: The Factors That Explain Banking Desert Formation	13
The Consensus (?) on Public Spending on Professional Sports Facilities	11
Collaboration and Public Participation for Municipal Growth in Land Economic Development Projects	10
Bringing Health Care to Appalachia: The Long-Run Impact of a Rural Health Care System	10
Predictive Analytics Supporting Labor Market Success: A Career Explorer for Job Seekers and Workforce Professionals in Michigan	10
What We Know About Registered Apprenticeship: A Systematic Review and Synthesis of 30 Years of Empirical Research	9
How Do Employers Belonging to Marginalized Communities Respond to Minimum Wage Increases? The Case of Immigrant-Owned Businesses in Seattle	8
Historical Housing Discrimination, Redlining, and the Contemporary Distribution of Local Economic Development Funding: The Case of Chicago	7
Book Review: How to Engage Policy Makers with Your Research by Vorley, T., Rahman, S. A., Tuckerman, L., & Wallace, P. (eds)	7
What Motivates Employer Engagement? Promoting Youth Career Embeddedness in Two Tennessee Regions	7
Urban Sprawl and Intergenerational Mobility: City- and Neighborhood-Level Effects of Sprawl	6
A Threshold Analysis of the Effect of House Prices on U.S. Local Labor Markets	5
Seize the Time: Needed Research on Local Economic Development in an Era of Increased Attention to Problems of Place	4
Can we “Claim” the Workforce? A Labor-Focused Agenda for Economic Development in the Face of an Uncertain Future	4
Can Industrial Reinvestment Reverse Neighborhood Decline? Evidence from Automotive Investment in Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario, 1980s-2020s	4
The Value of Rural and Urban Public Infrastructure	4
Book Review: The Hidden Face of Local Power: Appointed Boards and the Limits of Democracy by Holman, Mirya R. HolmanMirya R.2025. The Hidden Face of Local Power: Appoint	4
Empirical Evidence on the Economic Impacts of Hotel Taxes	4
What Moves Physicians to Work in Rural Areas? An In-Depth Examination of Physician Practice Location Decisions	3
Fixing Work, and Moving Beyond It	3
Is COVID-19 Causing More Business Closures in Poor and Minority Neighborhoods?	3
Book Review: The Innovation Stack: Building an Unbeatable Business One Crazy Idea at a Time by J. McKelvey	3

Socioeconomic and Environmental Indicators for Rural Communities: Bridging the Scholarly and Practice Gap	3
Convergent Development: Integrating Economic Development and Downtown Revitalization in Small Cities and Towns	2
Book Review: Preserving the Vanishing City: Historic Preservation amid Urban Decline in Cleveland by Stephanie Ryberg-Webster	2
Book Review: Clean Air and Good Jobs: U.S. Labor and the Struggle for Climate Justice by Todd E. Vachon	2
Do Economic Development Tax Abatements Affect School Finances?	2
Local Economic Development Policies and Business Activity: Dynamic Panel Data Analysis of All County Governments in the State of Georgia	2
Boon or Burden? Evaluating the Competing Effects of House-Price Shocks on Regional Entrepreneurship	2
Data on Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC)-Owned Businesses: What's Out There and What Can Be Done?	2
Employing Synthetic Control Method to Examine Whether State Corporate Tax Rate Reductions Grow Manufacturing Employment	2
Place-Based Small Business Support and its Implications for Neighborhood Revitalization	2
Book Review: Putting Skill to Work: How to Create Good Jobs in Uncertain Times by Nichola Lowe	2
Innovation Districts and Community Building: An Effective Strategy for Community Economic Development?	2
Arts and Cultural Innovation as Small City Economic Development	1
Diversifying Hawai‘i's Specialized Economy: A Spatial Economic Perspective	1
Remembering our Friend and Colleague, Larry Ledebur	1
City Competition for E-Commerce Sales Tax Revenue: Qualitative Evidence on the Politics of Land Fiscalization in California	1
Toward a More Complete and Nuanced Examination of Ohio and Pennsylvania’s 1980s Technology-Based Economic Development Strategies	1
Flying Blind on Job Creation Policies? A Case Study of California	1
Can Tax Increment Financing Benefit U.S. Rust Belt Communities?	1
Ohio's Regional Manufacturing Workforce Partnerships: Governing a Common Pool Resource	1
The Impact of a State-Level, Place-Based Economic Development Program: A Difference-in-Differences Approach	1
Book Review: Small Business Innovation in the Public Interest: A Study of the US National Institutes of Health by Link, A. N., & O’Connor, A. C. LinkA. N.O’ConnorA.	1
Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and Economic Development Policy	1
Why Are Unemployment Insurance Claims So Low?	1
The Racial and Spatial Impacts of the Paycheck Protection Program	1
Prospects for Growth and Change: U.S. Metro Area Forecasts 2022–2032	1
Occupational Transitions into Clean Energy: A Workforce Development Approach Using Occupational Similarity and Unsupervised Clustering	1
Response to Berglund Letter Regarding “Industrial Policy and Local Economic Transformation: Evidence from the Rust Belt”	1
The Evolution and Landscape of Under-Resourced Communities in U.S. Metropolitan Areas	1
Book Review: Vibrant Virginia: Engaging the commonwealth to expand economic vitality by Margaret Cowell and Sarah Lyon Hill, (eds)	1
How Does Innovation-Collaboration Network Structure Influence Regional Economic Resilience?	1
Improving the U.S. Workforce System by Transforming its Performance Measurement System into an Intelligent Information System	1
How are Economic Development Districts Riding the Waves of Economic Development Strategies?	1
Too Cold to Venture There? January Temperature and Immigrant Self-Employment Across the United States	1
Understanding Divergence in the Performance of Central Business District Economies Among U.S. Metropolitan Regions, 1995–2019	0
Book Review: A Review of “The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes Our Governments, and Warps Our Economies” by Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington	0
A Data-Driven Algorithm to Redefine the U.S. Rural Landscape: Affinity Propagation as a Mixed-Data/Mixed-Method Tool	0
Do Smart Cities Technologies Contribute to Local Economic Development?	0
Proceedings From the Conference on the Impact of Housing Affordability on Economic Development and Regional Labor Markets	0
What is Inclusionary Economic Development—What if Employees Mattered?	0
Understanding Economic Development Organization Efforts to Advance Inclusive Economic Recovery in Virginia	0
Building Representative State Groupings in an Input-Output Model for the Development of an Economic Impact Calculator for Nutrition Incentive Programs	0
What Is Economic Development? And What Is the Job of an Economic Development Professional?	0
Introduction to the Special Issue on Rural Economic Development: New Research Insights and how the COVID-19 Pandemic may Impact Future Investment Strategies	0
The Clean Air Act and Local Employment Base Sensitivity	0
Growth in Commuting Patterns and Their Impacts on Rural Workforce and Economic Development	0
Assessing the Effects of Place-Based Policy on Spatial Inequality and the Distribution of Household Income: Evidence from Tax Increment Financing	0
Rethinking the Urban–Rural Divide: Economic Growth in America's Heartland	0
Measuring What Matters in Business Support Programs	0
Key Research and Policy Questions in Economic Development and Workforce Development	0

The Growing Role of Community Development Finance in Economic Development	0
Big Tech on the Block: Examining the Impact of Tech Campuses on Local Housing Markets in the San Francisco Bay Area	0
The Impact of Tax Increment Financing on Business Entries and Exits in Iowa	0
COVID-19-Induced Automation: An Exploratory Study of Critical Occupations	0
Book Review: Engaging Place, Engaging Practices: Urban History and Campus-Community Partnerships by Bachin, Robin F. and Howard, Amy L. (eds)	0
An Introduction to the Special Issue	0
Credit Availability for Minority Business Owners in an Evolving Credit Environment	0
Book Review: Empirical Regional Economics: Economic Base Theory, Models, and Applications by Richard S Conway Jr	0
Banking Deserts and the Paycheck Protection Program	0
Do Restrictive Land Use Regulations Make Housing More Expensive Everywhere?	0
Challenges to Identifying Economic Development Impacts	0
Can Anyone Learn to Code? A Qualitative Study of Place-Based Information Technology Training Programs	0
A Middle Model of Economic Development? Revisiting the Economic Geography of Middle-Wage Occupations in the United States	0
Book Review: The Mismeasure of Progress: Economic Growth and its Critics by S. Macekura	0
Book Review: Agile Against Lean. An Inquiry into the Production System of Hyundai Motor by Hyung Je Jo, Jun Ho Jong, & Chulsik Kim	0
Applied Regional Economic Research Can Improve Development Strategies and Drive Better Outcomes	0
Impact of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender on the SBA Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Loan Amounts	0
Identifying and Developing the Battery Manufacturing Workforce: A Regional Analysis of Supply–Demand of Skilled Workers	0
Book Review:Handbook of Cities and Networks. Research Handbooks in Urban Studiesby Neal, Z. & Rozenblat, C. (Eds.)	0
Federal Economic Development and Environmental Sustainability: Lessons from 20 Years of Spending	0
Centering Work: Integration and Diffusion of Workforce Development Within the U.S. Manufacturing Extension Network	0
Toward a New Rural Typology: Mapping Resources, Opportunities, and Challenges	0
Book Review: Labour Law and Economic Policy by Todolí-Signes, Adrián Todolí-SignesAdrián. Labour Law and Economic Policy. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024, Oxford. pp. 430. P	0
Linking People’s Mobility and Place Livability: Implications for Rural Communities	0
Come Together, But How? Zooming Into Economic Development Collaboration Between State and Local Governments, and Nongovernmental Organizations	0
State-Level Policies to Incentivize Workplace Learning: Impacts of a California Publicly Funded Employee Training Program	0
Beyond Local and Traded: Evidence for a Third Industry Market Area Type and Implications for Regional Economic Development	0
Can Targeted Government Investment in Rural Establishments Induce Innovative Activity?	0
Bank Types, Inclusivity, and Paycheck Protection Program Lending During COVID-19	0
The Impact of New Jersey's Urban Enterprise Zones on Local Employment: A Synthetic Control Approach	0
Book Review: Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation by Edward Glaeser and David Cutler	0
Book Review: 21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19 by Ben S. Bernanke	0
The Role of Community Development Financial Institutions in Supporting Inclusive Economic Development	0
Policy, Empirical Analysis, and Equity: Challenges for Research	0
Aerospace Place-Based Policy: The Impact of Boeing on South Carolina's Aerospace Industry	0
Introduction to the Second Special Issue on Inclusive Economic Development: Promoting Inclusive Economic Growth and Development	0
Suggestions for Future Research in the Area of Workforce Development Systems and Regional Economic Development in the United States	0
Creating an Effective Workforce Program Takes a Lot of Work and a Long-Term Commitment	0
Dissolving Districts: Did Property Values Fall When California Terminated Its Redevelopment Agencies?	0
Introduction to the Special Issue on Inclusive Economic Development: Paycheck Protection Program	0
Are We at an Inflection Point in Community Economic Development? The 4 ^th Wave	0
Local Employment Impacts of Connectivity to Regional Economies: The Role of Industry Clusters in Bridging the Urban-Rural Divide	0
Book Review: Will the gig economy prevail? by Colin Crouch	0