Victor Couture

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 549 citations indexed

About

Victor Couture is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Transportation and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Victor Couture has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 549 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 6 papers in Transportation and 4 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Victor Couture's work include Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (5 papers), Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis (4 papers) and Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (4 papers). Victor Couture is often cited by papers focused on Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (5 papers), Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis (4 papers) and Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (4 papers). Victor Couture collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Finland. Victor Couture's co-authors include Jessie Handbury, Yizhen Gu, Lizhi Liu, Benjamin Faber, Gilles Duranton, Matthew A. Turner, Allison Green, Kevin Williams, Jonathan I. Dingel and Cécile Gaubert and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, American Economic Review and The Journal of Economic Perspectives.

In The Last Decade

Victor Couture

14 papers receiving 519 citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Connecting the Countryside via E-Commerce: Evidence from China

2021 166 citations Victor Couture, Benjamin Faber et al. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Victor Couture United States	11	307	147	125	79	60	15	549
Ben Zou United States	10	228 0.7×	59 0.4×	118 0.9×	35 0.4×	30 0.5×	26	516
Frank Crowley Ireland	15	214 0.7×	62 0.4×	71 0.6×	29 0.4×	5 0.1×	40	480
Varsolo Sunio Philippines	11	50 0.2×	146 1.0×	37 0.3×	33 0.4×	4 0.1×	28	315
Prince K. Guma United Kingdom	13	28 0.1×	43 0.3×	96 0.8×	23 0.3×	71 1.2×	31	455
Jonas Poulsen Sweden	4	224 0.7×	10 0.1×	104 0.8×	15 0.2×	136 2.3×	5	388
Christopher Garbacz United States	17	385 1.3×	50 0.3×	55 0.4×	59 0.7×	368 6.1×	39	844
Mina Akhavan Italy	13	60 0.2×	87 0.6×	87 0.7×	65 0.8×	6 0.1×	30	471
Chien‐Chi Chu China	12	194 0.6×	11 0.1×	46 0.4×	38 0.5×	13 0.2×	41	419
Karen Trapenberg Frick United States	12	82 0.3×	331 2.3×	95 0.8×	57 0.7×	9 0.1×	35	606
David Emanuel Andersson Taiwan	13	337 1.1×	186 1.3×	88 0.7×	92 1.2×	5 0.1×	42	627

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Victor Couture

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All Works

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15 of 15 papers shown

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Couture, Victor. (2024). Urban youth most isolated in largest cities. Nature. 625(7996). 667–668.

2.

Couture, Victor & Jessie Handbury. (2023). Neighborhood Change, Gentrification, and the Urbanization of College Graduates. The Journal of Economic Perspectives. 37(2). 29–52. 12 indexed citations

3.

Couture, Victor, et al.. (2023). The Fast, the Slow, and the Congested: Urban Transportation in Rich and Poor Countries. SSRN Electronic Journal. 4 indexed citations

4.

Couture, Victor, Cécile Gaubert, Jessie Handbury, & Erik Hurst. (2023). Income Growth and the Distributional Effects of Urban Spatial Sorting. The Review of Economic Studies. 91(2). 858–898. 21 indexed citations

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Couture, Victor, et al.. (2023). Mobility and Congestion in Urban India. American Economic Review. 113(4). 1083–1111. 21 indexed citations

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Couture, Victor, Jonathan I. Dingel, Allison Green, Jessie Handbury, & Kevin Williams. (2021). JUE Insight: Measuring movement and social contact with smartphone data: a real-time application to COVID-19. Journal of Urban Economics. 127. 103328–103328. 52 indexed citations

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Couture, Victor, Benjamin Faber, Yizhen Gu, & Lizhi Liu. (2021). Connecting the Countryside via E-Commerce: Evidence from China. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 3(1). 35–50. 166 indexed citations breakdown →

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Couture, Victor, Jonathan I. Dingel, Allison Green, Jessie Handbury, & Kevin Williams. (2021). Measuring Movement and Social Contact with Smartphone Data: A Real-time Application to COVID-19. SSRN Electronic Journal. 6 indexed citations

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Couture, Victor & Jessie Handbury. (2020). Urban revival in America. Journal of Urban Economics. 119. 103267–103267. 97 indexed citations

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Couture, Victor, Jonathan I. Dingel, Allison Green, Jessie Handbury, & Kevin Williams. (2020). Measuring Movement and Social Contact with Smartphone Data: A Real-Time Application to COVID-19. 10 indexed citations

11.

Couture, Victor, Cécile Gaubert, Jessie Handbury, & Erik Hurst. (2019). Income Growth and the Distributional Effects of Urban Spatial Sorting. SSRN Electronic Journal. 22 indexed citations

12.

Couture, Victor, Gilles Duranton, & Matthew A. Turner. (2018). Speed. The Review of Economics and Statistics. 100(4). 725–739. 70 indexed citations

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Couture, Victor, et al.. (2018). Mobility and Congestion in Urban India. World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks. 13 indexed citations

14.

Couture, Victor. (2015). Knowledge spillovers in cities: An auction approach. Journal of Economic Theory. 157. 668–698. 8 indexed citations

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Couture, Victor. (2014). Valuing the Consumption Benefits of Urban Density. 47 indexed citations

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