Regional Science and Urban Economics

1975 - 2025

Continuation of Regional and Urban Economics.

Current editor(s): D.P McMillen and Y. Zenou

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Volume 91, issue C, 2021

Industrial structure in urban accounting

Jun Oshiro and Yasuhiro Sato

Rural-urban migration and house prices in China

Carlos Garriga, Aaron Hedlund, Yang Tang and Ping Wang

Social insurance, demographics, and rural-urban migration in China

Neha Bairoliya and Ray Miller

Agglomeration of human capital: Evidence from city choice of online job seekers in China

Yaqin Su, Yue Hua and Lanfang Deng

The labour market impacts of female internal migration: Evidence from the end of Apartheid

Matthew Sharp

Rural electrification, migration and structural transformation: Evidence from Ethiopia

Stephie Fried and David Lagakos

Rural-urban migration with remittances and welfare analysis

Li-Wen Hung and Shin-Kun Peng

The role of informal housing in lowering China’s urbanization costs

Dongxiao Niu, Weizeng Sun and Siqi Zheng

Urbanization policy and economic development: A quantitative analysis of China's differential hukou reforms

Wen-Tai Hsu and Lin Ma

Rural-urban migration at high urbanization levels

Matias Busso, Juan Chauvin and Nicolás Herrera L.

Rural-urban migration in developing countries: Lessons from the literature

Harris Selod and Forhad Shilpi

Measuring internal migration

Martina Kirchberger

Volume 90, issue C, 2021

Metros, agglomeration and displacement. Evidence from London

Csaba G. Pogonyi, Daniel J. Graham and Jose M. Carbo

Storm surges, informational shocks, and the price of urban real estate: An application to the case of Hurricane Sandy

Jeffrey P. Cohen, Jason Barr and Eon Kim

Optimizing the number of employment subcenters to decentralize a congested city

Shu-Xian Xu, Tian-Liang Liu, Hai-Jun Huang and David Z.W. Wang

Borders, geography, and economic activity: The case of China

Hao Guo and Jenny Minier

Income segregation's impact on local public expenditures: Evidence from municipalities and school districts, 1980–2010

Ryan Gallagher

Can information help Lakisha and Jamal find housing? Evidence from a low-cost online experiment of landlords

Judson Murchie, Jindong Pang and David J. Schwegman

Introduction to the Special issue: “Emerging Trends in Urban Economics”

Gabriel Ahlfeldt and Laurent Gobillon

Sorting based on urban heritage and income: Evidence from the Amsterdam metropolitan area

Mark van Duijn and Jan Rouwendal

The effectiveness of job creation tax credits

Shiferaw Gurmu, David L. Sjoquist and Laura Wheeler

Volume 89, issue C, 2021

The next town over: On the clustering of towns and settlements before modern economic growth

Florian Ploeckl

The prices of residential land in German counties

Stefanie Braun and Gabriel Lee

Property tax capitalization, a case study of Dallas County

Seth Giertz, Rasoul Ramezani and Kurt J. Beron

“Ghost cities” versus boom towns: Do China's high-speed rail new towns thrive?

Lei Dong, Rui Du, Matthew Kahn, Carlo Ratti and Siqi Zheng

Are wind turbines a mafia windfall? The unintended consequences of green incentives

Claudio Deiana and Andrea Geraci

Welfare losses of road congestion: Evidence from Rome

Antonio Russo, Martin W. Adler, Federica Liberini and Jos van Ommeren

The carbon ‘carprint’ of urbanization: New evidence from French cities

Camille Blaudin de Thé, Benjamin Carantino and Miren Lafourcade

Epidemic shocks and housing price responses: Evidence from China's urban residential communities

Yanan Liu and Yugang Tang

Hospital quality interdependence in a competitive institutional environment: Evidence from Italy

Domenico Lisi, Francesco Moscone, Elisa Tosetti and Veronica Vinciotti

Should I wait or should I go? Travelling versus waiting for better healthcare

Matteo Lippi Bruni, Cristina Ugolini and Rossella Verzulli

Volume 88, issue C, 2021

Optimal compulsion for private assembly of property

Roman Zakharenko

The accident externality from trucking: Evidence from shale gas development

Lucija Muehlenbachs, Stefan Staubli and Ziyan Chu

The refugee wave to Germany and its impact on crime

Fabian T. Dehos

The effects of an “urban village” planning and zoning strategy in San Jose, California

C.J. Gabbe, Michael Kevane and William A. Sundstrom

Cross-border casino competition, Externalities and Optimal Tax Policy: A Unified Theory with Quantitative Analysis

Juin-jen Chang, Ingo Fiedler, Ching-chong Lai and Ping Wang

Willingness to pay for clean air: Evidence from diesel vehicle registration restrictions in Japan

Shuhei Nishitateno and Paul Burke

Firms, fires, and firebreaks: The impact of the 1906 San Francisco disaster on business agglomeration

James Siodla

The impact of Airbnb on residential property values and rents: Evidence from Portugal

Sofia F. Franco and Carlos Santos

What happens when Airbnb comes to the neighborhood: The impact of home-sharing on neighborhood investment

Minhong Xu and Yilan Xu

Public good provision and local employment – Evidence from grammar school closures in East Germany

Ronny Freier, Martin Simmler and Christian Wittrock

The causal economic effects of Olympic Games on host regions

Matthias Firgo

Salience of hazard disclosure and house prices: Evidence from Christchurch, New Zealand

Yi Huang

Volume 87, issue C, 2021

Cities of workers, children or seniors? Stylized facts and possible implications for growth in a global sample of cities

Remi Jedwab, Daniel Pereira and Mark Roberts

Human capital externalities or consumption spillovers? The effect of high-skill human capital across low-skill labor markets

Shimeng Liu and Xi Yang

Land conversion across cities in China

Shihe Fu, Xiaocong Xu and Junfu Zhang

How do home purchase restrictions affect elite Chinese graduate students’ job search behavior?

Weizeng Sun, Sisi Zhang, Chengtao Lin and Siqi Zheng

Regional composition of national house price cycles in the US

Jan Prüser and Torsten Schmidt

Measuring heterogeneous preferences for residential amenities

Arthur Caplan, Sherzod Akhundjanov and Kristopher Toll

A tale of two districts: The impact of district consolidation on property values in Shanghai

Huayi Yu and Yujuan Hou

Minimum wages and housing rents: Theory and evidence

Atsushi Yamagishi

Mortgage subsidies, homeownership, and marriage: Effects of the VA loan program

Judith S. Ricks

Estimating the price elasticity of demand for subways: Evidence from Mexico

Lucas Davis

On rational forward-looking behavior in economic geography: An experimental analysis

Iván Barreda-Tarrazona, Tapas Kundu and Stein Østbye

Hits from the Bong: The impact of recreational marijuana dispensaries on property values

Danna Thomas and Lin Tian

In search of better opportunities: Sorting and agglomeration effects among young college graduates in Colombia

Marigee Bacolod, Jorge De la Roca and María Marta Ferreyra