Journal of Regional Science

2000 - 2025

Current editor(s): Marlon G. Boarnet, Matthew Kahn and Mark D. Partridge

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Volume 63, issue 5, 2023

The effect of open space maintenance spending on house prices pp. 1053-1072

David Brasington

Impact of demolitions on neighboring property values in Detroit pp. 1073-1099

Camila Alvayay Torrejón, Dusan Paredes and Mark Skidmore

Crime in the era of COVID‐19: Evidence from England pp. 1100-1130

Kyriakos Neanidis and Maria P. Rana

Vive le Tour!? Estimating the place‐based benefits of hosting the Tour de France pp. 1131-1161

Teemu Makkonen and Timo Mitze

From the historical Roman road network to modern infrastructure in Italy pp. 1162-1191

Luca De Benedictis, Vania Licio and Anna Maria Pinna

The Japanese textile sector and the influenza pandemic of 1918–1920 pp. 1192-1227

Ilan Noy, Toshihiro Okubo and Eric Strobl

How does the Covid‐19 pandemic affect regional labor markets and why do large cities suffer most? pp. 1228-1250

Silke Hamann, Annekatrin Niebuhr, Duncan Roth and Georg Sieglen

Lights out: The economic impacts of Covid‐19 on cities globally pp. 1251-1283

Amjad Khan, Hogeun Park, Mark Roberts and Putu Sanjiwacika Wibisana

Public capital and institutions' quality in the Italian regions pp. 1284-1308

Federico Aresu, Emanuela Marrocu and Raffaele Paci

Volume 63, issue 4, 2023

The ripple effects of large‐scale transport infrastructure investment pp. 755-792

Damiaan Persyn, Javier Barbero, Jorge Díaz‐Lanchas, Patrizio Lecca, Giovanni Mandras and Simone Salotti

Evidence on economies of scale in local public service provision: A meta‐analysis pp. 793-819

Juan Luis Gómez‐Reino, Santiago Lago‐Peñas and Jorge Martinez‐Vazquez

The spatial scope of agglomeration economies in Brazil pp. 820-863

Edilberto Tiago de Almeida, Raul Silveira Neto and Roberta de Moraes Rocha

COVID‐19 and employment relief programs: A tale of spatially blind policies for a spatially driven pandemic pp. 864-897

Esteban López Ochoa, Juan Eberhard and Patricio Aroca

War and city size: The asymmetric effects of the Spanish Civil War pp. 898-921

Rafael González‐Val and Javier Silvestre

Wildfire risk, salience, and housing development in the wildland–urban interface pp. 922-946

Katie Jo Black, Nicholas Irwin and Shawn J. McCoy

The role of aviation networks for urban development pp. 947-980

Anca D. Cristea

Inter‐ and intraregional inequality in a spatial economy pp. 981-1000

Juan Carlos Lopez and Tadashi Morita

Mafia doesn't live here anymore: Antimafia policies and housing prices pp. 1001-1025

Francesca Calamunci, Livio Ferrante, Rossana Scebba and Gianpiero Torrisi

Business dynamism, educational attainment, and residential location choice pp. 1026-1046

Sydney Schreiner Wertz

Volume 63, issue 3, 2023

Firm‐level productivity growth returns of social capital: Evidence from Western Europe pp. 529-551

Roberto Ganau and Andrés Rodríguez‐Pose

What kind of region reaps the benefits of a currency union? pp. 552-582

Augusto Cerqua, Roberta Di Stefano and Guido Pellegrini

Rationality test in the housing market: Project‐level evidence from China pp. 583-616

Yifan Chen, Jianhua Gang, Zongxin Qian and Jinfan Zhang

Rediscovering regional science: Positioning the field's evolving location in science and society pp. 617-642

Zhenhua Chen and Laurie A. Schintler

City subcenter as a regional development policy: Impact on the property market pp. 643-673

Ling Li and Fangzhou Xia

Research collaboration beyond the boundary: Evidence from university patents in China pp. 674-702

Jingbo Cui, Tianqi Li and Zhenxuan Wang

Pollution effects of place‐based policy: Evidence from China's development‐zone program pp. 703-727

Yue Hua, Mark Partridge and Weizeng Sun

The spatial distribution of population in Spain: An anomaly in European perspective pp. 728-750

Eduardo Gutiérrez Chacón, Enrique Moral‐Benito, Daniel Oto‐Peralías and Roberto Ramos

Volume 63, issue 2, 2023

Information transparency, monitoring, and incentives under decentralization: Evidence from China's fiscal reform of “province managing county” pp. 263-289

Junxue Jia, Jing Ning and Jing Zhang

Geographic earnings inequality by race, 1960–2016 pp. 290-339

Andrew W. Nutting

Digital gravity? Firm birth and relocation patterns of young digital firms in Germany pp. 340-378

Vanessa Hellwig

Cities in a pandemic: Evidence from China pp. 379-408

Badi Baltagi, Ying Deng, Jing Li and Zhenlin Yang

Long‐term decline of regions and the rise of populism: The case of Germany pp. 409-445

Maria Greve, Michael Fritsch and Michael Wyrwich

The impact of crime on firm entry pp. 446-469

Nicolò Barbieri and Ugo Rizzo

Are the home values and property tax burdens of permanent homeowners affected by growth in housing rentals and second homes: Evidence based on big data from Florida pp. 470-502

Keith Ihlanfeldt and Cynthia Fan Yang

The task coordination method of intelligence‐alliance innovation team of universities in Western China pp. 503-524

Qinwei Cao, Qiaoyu Meng, Can Wang, Jing Wang and Wanchun Duan

Volume 63, issue 1, 2023

Postcrisis recovery in the regions of Europe: Does institutional quality matter? pp. 5-29

Eleonora Cutrini

Economic effects of recent experiences of federalism: Analysis of the regionalization process in Spain pp. 30-63

Juan S. Mora‐Sanguinetti and Rok Spruk

Access to capital markets and the geography of productivity leaders and laggards pp. 64-113

Giorgio Barba Navaretti and Anna Cecilia Rosso

A socioeconomic impact assessment of three Italian national parks pp. 114-147

Riccardo D'Alberto, Francesco Pagliacci and Matteo Zavalloni

Regional inequality in China during its rise as a giant exporter: A value chain analysis pp. 148-172

Yuwan Duan, Erik Dietzenbacher, Bart Los and Ruochen Dai

An information‐theoretic approach to the analysis of location and colocation patterns pp. 173-213

Alje van Dam, Andres Gomez‐Lievano, Frank Neffke and Koen Frenken

Geography of contestation: A study on the Yellow Vest movement and the rise of populism in France pp. 214-235

Sebastien Bourdin and Andre Torre

Legal heritage and urban slums pp. 236-252

Per Fredriksson, Satyendra Kumar Gupta, Weihua Zhao and Jim Wollscheid

L.M.A. Bettencourt, 2021 Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex SystemsMIT Press. 453+xxi. ISBN: 978‐0262046008. $44.82 (hardcover) pp. 253-254

Paolo Di Caro and Paolo Lorenzo Ferrara

Migration and the European City: Social and Cultural Perspectives from Early Modernity to the Present. C. Cornelissen, B. Kümin, & M. Rospocher (eds.). 2022. De Gruyter Oldenbourg. 251 pages. ISBN:‎ 978‐3110778229. Hardcover, $94.99 pp. 255-257

Jialin Shi

Volume 62, issue 5, 2022

Trust as a catalyst for regional growth in a decentralized Europe: The interplay between informal and formal institutions in driving economic growth pp. 1229-1249

Jonathan Muringani

Internal structure of consumer cities: Core and subcenters pp. 1250-1273

Yoon Sang Moon

Be my (little) partner?!—Universities' role in regional innovation systems when large firms are rare pp. 1274-1295

Anna‐Maria Kindt, Matthias Geissler and Kilian Bühling

City‐chief turnover and place‐based policy change: Evidence from China pp. 1296-1328

Yang Shen, Jing Wu and Shuping Wu

The contingent nature of broadband as an engine for business startups in rural areas pp. 1329-1357

Chloé Duvivier and Claire Bussière

Political tournaments and regional growth‐enhancing policies: Evidence from Chinese prefectures pp. 1358-1385

Yu Bai and Yanjun Li

Regional aspects of immigration‐related changes in political preferences pp. 1386-1413

Adrian Mehic

Localized labor flow networks in knowledge‐intensive industries pp. 1414-1441

Tamás Lahdelma

The impact of home rule on municipal boundary and fiscal expansion: Evidence from Texas pp. 1442-1466

Pengju Zhang, Phuong Nguyen‐Hoang and Na Chen

Infrastructure and income inequality: An application to the Brazilian case using hierarchical spatial autoregressive models pp. 1467-1486

Victor Medeiros, Rafael Saulo Marques Ribeiro and Pedro Vasconscelos Maia do Amaral

Closed for mafia: Evidence from the removal of mafia firms on commercial property values pp. 1487-1511

Francesca Calamunci, Livio Ferrante and Rossana Scebba

Thrive, survive, or perish: The impact of regional autonomy on the demographic dynamics of Italian Alpine territories pp. 1512-1558

Nadiia Matsiuk

Volume 62, issue 4, 2022

The effect of labor‐market differentials on interregional migration in Spain: A meta‐regression analysis pp. 913-937

Maximiliano Alvarez and Vicente Royuela

Border enforcement and the sorting and commuting patterns of Hispanics pp. 938-960

Heepyung Cho

Perturbed cusp catastrophe in a population game: Spatial economics with locational asymmetries pp. 961-980

Kiyohiro Ikeda, Yuki Takayama, José Gaspar and Minoru Osawa

Roads to innovation: Evidence from Italy pp. 981-1005

Anna Bottasso, Maurizio Conti, Simone Robbiano and Marta Santagata

Lessons from the 2020 Covid recession for understanding regional resilience pp. 1006-1031

Mark Partridge, Seung‐hun Chung and Sydney Schreiner Wertz

How do initial migrants choose their locations? Interregional migration in Japan from 1899 to 1938 pp. 1032-1047

Akira Igarashi

Historical episodes and their legacies across space: A famous case revisited pp. 1048-1091

Michael Wyrwich

Place‐based investment and neighborhood change: The impacts of New Markets Tax Credits on jobs, poverty, and neighborhood composition pp. 1092-1121

Brett Theodos, Christina Stacy, Daniel Teles, Chris Davis and Ananya Hariharan

Institutions matter: The impact of the covid‐19 pandemic on the political trust of young Europeans pp. 1122-1148

Anna Bottasso, Gianluca Cerruti and Maurizio Conti

Measuring US regional economic uncertainty pp. 1149-1178

Wei‐Fong Pan, J Reade and Shixuan Wang

Regional multipliers across the Italian regions pp. 1179-1205

Sergio Destefanis, Mario Di Serio and Matteo Fragetta

Do enterprise zones promote local business development? Evidence from Vietnam pp. 1206-1224

Tien Vu and Hiroyuki Yamada

Volume 62, issue 3, 2022

Infrastructure, enforcement, and COVID‐19 in Mumbai slums: A first look pp. 645-669

Vaidehi Tandel, Sahil Gandhi, Shaonlee Patranabis, Luís M. A. Bettencourt and Anup Malani

International trade and Covid‐19: City‐level evidence from China's lockdown policy pp. 670-695

Jiansuo Pei, Gaaitzen de Vries and Meng Zhang

Geographic spread of COVID‐19 and local economies: Heterogeneous effects by establishment size and industry pp. 696-731

Jun Sung Kim and Taehoon Kim

Public responses to COVID‐19 case disclosure and their spatial implications pp. 732-756

Kwan Ok Lee and Hyojung Lee

Regional and sectorial impacts of the Covid‐19 crisis: Evidence from electronic payments pp. 757-798

Bruno P. Carvalho, Susana Peralta and João Pereira Dos Santos

Cleanliness is next to income: The impact of COVID‐19 on short‐term rentals pp. 799-829

Lily Shen and Sean Wilkoff

Demand for social interactions: Evidence from the restaurant industry during the COVID‐19 pandemic pp. 830-857

Binzhe Wang, Matias Williams, Fábio Duarte and Siqi Zheng

The impact of the Coronavirus pandemic on New York City real estate: First evidence pp. 858-888

Jeffrey P. Cohen, Felix Friedt and Jackson P. Lautier

Where did it hit harder? Understanding the geography of excess mortality during the COVID‐19 pandemic pp. 889-908

Marcos Díaz Ramírez, Paolo Veneri and Alexander C. Lembcke

Volume 62, issue 2, 2022

Voting on urban land development pp. 335-359

Matthias Wrede

Geography and regional economic growth: The high cost of deviating from nature pp. 360-388

Daniel Albalate, Germà Bel and Ferran A. Mazaira‐Font

Financial development and growth in European regions pp. 389-411

Paola Rossi and Diego Scalise

Regional borders, local unemployment, and life satisfaction pp. 412-442

Antonio Di Paolo and Ada Ferrer‐i‐Carbonell

Does road accessibility to cities support rural population growth? Evidence for Portugal between 1991 and 2011 pp. 443-470

Patricia Melo, Conceição Rego, Paulo R. Anciães, Nuno Guiomar and José Muñoz‐Rojas

Spatial externalities in big cities and duality of the labour market pp. 471-498

Alessia Matano

Decomposing the gender reservation wage gap in Italy: A regional perspective pp. 499-540

Sarah Brown, Gurleen Popli and Alessandro Sasso

The opioid crisis and economic distress: Consequences for population change pp. 541-577

Samuel Taylor, Heather M. Stephens and Daniel Grossman

Looking ahead in anger: The effects of foreign migration on youth resentment in England pp. 578-603

Daria Denti

Home is where the history is: How today's migration in Germany is shaped by regional identity pp. 604-638

Anna Kremer

Volume 62, issue 1, 2022

Innovation in Malmö after the Öresund Bridge pp. 5-20

Olof Ejermo, Katrin Hussinger, Basheer Kalash and Torben Schubert

Counterfactual dissimilarity: Can changes in demographics and income explain increased racial integration in US cities? pp. 21-56

Paul Carrillo and Jonathan Rothbaum

Measurement error in US regional economic data pp. 57-80

Craig Carpenter, Anders Van Sandt and Scott Loveridge

Local economic growth and local government investment in parks and recreation, or five cheese pizzas for $2.6 million pp. 81-95

David Brasington

Quality of government and economic growth at the municipal level: Evidence from Spain pp. 96-124

Maria Teresa Balaguer‐Coll, Isabel Narbón‐Perpiñá, Jesús Peiró‐Palomino and Emili Tortosa‐Ausina

What does the disclosure of school quality information bring? The effect through the housing market pp. 125-149

Yuta Kuroda

Local job multipliers revisited pp. 150-170

Taner Osman and Tom Kemeny

Who partners up? Homogamy and income inequality in New Zealand cities pp. 171-193

Omoniyi B. Alimi, David Maré and Jacques Poot

The impact of sports stadiums on localized commercial activity: Evidence from a Business Improvement District pp. 194-217

John Bradbury

Barriers to urban spatial development: Evidence from the 2010–2011 Christchurch earthquakes pp. 218-245

Yuming Fu and Song Shi

Compact development and preferences for social mixing in location choices: Results from revealed preferences in Santiago, Chile pp. 246-269

Tomás Cox and Ricardo Hurtubia

Regional disparities, transmission channels and country's economic growth pp. 270-306

Łukasz Piętak

One policy, different effects: Estimating the region‐specific impacts of EU cohesion policy pp. 307-330

Paolo Di Caro and Ugo Fratesi