China Economic Review

Papers
(The median citation count of China Economic Review is 4. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
The hidden cost of corporate tax cuts: Evidence from worker health in China128
Choosing tournament for children: Parenting style and information intervention111
How corruption prevails: A laboratory experiment108
Unveiling paradoxes of access: How higher education expansion shapes intergenerational educational mobility in China's admission quota system101
Intergenerational transmission of non-cognitive abilities: Evidence from the Wuhan Birth Cohort Studies97
The income redistribution effect of social security in China78
Blowin’ in the wind: Smog and suicidal ideation among school-age children73
Can data elements enhance urban innovation? Evidence from China73
Economic well-being and farming sustainability when trade shocks occur: Insights from agricultural households72
Broadband internet and income inequality among the floating population: Evidence from the “broadband China” strategy in China71
Can higher education improve egalitarian gender role attitudes? Evidence from China67
Dams, cropland productivity, and economic development in China61
Research on contracting institutions and convergence60
Valuing research output: Evidence from a Chinese university55
Short-term impact of climate change on labor market in China: Quantitative spatial analysis based on an oligopsony model54
Has the digital economy improved the consumption of poor and subsistence households?49
How does people’s liberation army related business closure affect the local economy?47
Local guarantees and SOE bond pricing in China46
Editorial Board46
Perceived relative income, fairness, and the role of government: Evidence from a randomized survey experiment in China43
Earning reduction caused by air pollution: Evidence from China43
Export destinations and pollution reduction: Theory and evidence from Chinese enterprises42
Editorial Board41
Effects of export growth on the location choices of migrant workers: Evidence from China41
The innovation of family firms in China: New evidence from the China employer-employee survey40
Toward consumer city: Subway network expansion and consumption industry growth40
Enhancing China's image in Africa: The role of the Belt and Road Initiative40
Intensive judicial oversight and corporate green innovations: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China40
Development zones and green innovation: Evidence from Chinese listed companies39
Unexpected opportunity for girls: Earthquake, disaster relief and female education in China's poor counties39
Publish or perish: Up-or-out rules and research performance of universities39
Impact of fast internet access on employment: Evidence from a broadband expansion in China39
A blessing and a curse: Identifying how knowledge complexity influences regional innovation efficiency in the presence of varying spatial externalities38
How to encourage consumers' ongoing participation in physical exercise via feedback: Evidence from a longitudinal field experiment37
Air pollution and agricultural labor supply: Evidence from China36
Editorial Board36
What you breathe makes you poor: The effect of air pollution on income35
Peer effects in rural housing demand: Evidence from China35
CO2 allocation and equity issues under China's carbon neutrality targets: Recent advances and a review35
China's growing but slowing inequality of household wealth, 2013–2018: A challenge to ‘common prosperity’?35
The impacts of superstition on risk preferences and beliefs: Evidence from the Chinese zodiac year34
Editorial34
Is the People's Bank of China consistent in words and deeds?33
Socioeconomic status and inequalities in early development of non-cognitive skills: Evidence from China33
Patrilineality, fertility, and women's income: Evidence from family lineage in China32
The effect of clean heating policy on individual health: Evidence from China32
Effects of temperature on mental health: Evidence and mechanisms from China32
Who benefits from household energy transition? A cost-benefit analysis based on household survey data in China31
The spatiotemporal evolution of COVID-19 in China and its impact on urban economic resilience31
Memory of famine: The persistent impact of famine experience on food waste behavior31
Willingness-to-pay for early childhood development: A field experiment in Western China30
Risk education and tax aggressiveness: Evidence from China's auditor certification reform30
Capital flows under integration: Evidence from China's metropolitan area development planning30
How digital finance shapes residents' health: Evidence from China29
Bankruptcy judicial reform and corporate trade credit financing29
Creating cities and food security challenge: Evidence from the city–county merger policy in China29
Decision-making as cognitive household labor: Higher education expansion, women empowerment, and their intra-household decision-making responsibility29
Nonlinear relationship between the number of children and late-life cognition29
Regulating strategic expense relabelling in R&D tax incentives by mandatory information disclosure27
Higher education expansion and supply of teachers in China27
Optimal taxation, differential mortality, and endogenous human capital accumulation in China27
Corporate key labs: Breakthrough or white elephant?27
The ladder of prosperity: An analysis of housing wealth accumulation across income groups in urban China26
Bubble into reallocation: How bubbles improve capital allocation in China25
Did the anti-avoidance rules curtail the profit shifting of foreign multinationals in China?25
BigTech credit risk assessment for SMEs25
Higher education expansion and the rise of China in economics research25
Does villager social capital hinder poverty targeting? Evidence from poverty-stricken county of Western China25
Endogenous price discrimination with asymmetric firms25
The effectiveness and costs of nonpharmaceutical interventions for COVID-19 containment: A border discontinuous difference-in-difference approach25
Search frictions in rental markets: Evidence from urban China24
Childhood trauma among Chinese inmates23
Market structure, resource allocation, and industry productivity growth: Firm-level evidence from China's steel industry23
Revisiting income inequality among households: New evidence from the Chinese Household Income Project23
Is care by grandparents or parents better for children's non-cognitive skills? Evidence on locus of control from China22
Pursuing a brighter future: Impact of the Hukou reform on human capital investment in migrant children in China22
Digitalization of industries and labor mobility in China22
Maternity leave reform and women's labor supply: Evidence from China22
Higher education reform in China: A comprehensive review of policymaking, implementation, and outcomes since 197822
Industrialize with tax structure change: Agricultural tax abolition and local industrial growth in China21
Export contraction and input switching in an aging China21
Can reducing agricultural trade costs foster the transformation of the agrifood system? Evidence from China21
Narrow framing and under-diversification: Empirical evidence from Chinese households21
Imports of key capital goods and quality upgrading: Evidence from China's import subsidy policy21
State-owned enterprise presence: Local spillovers21
MULAN in the name: Causes and consequences of gendered Chinese names20
Children's marriage and parental subjective well-being: Evidence from China20
CEO experience and corporate financing decisions: Evidence from a natural experiment in China20
Attraction or repulsion? The creation of civilized cities and the resident intention of migrants20
Digital financial inclusion and subjective well-being – Evidence from China health and retirement longitudinal study20
Exposure to socially influential peer parents: Evidence from cadre parents in China20
Growing pains for others: Using holidays to identify the pollution spillover between China and South Korea19
Relationship between health behavior compliance and prospect theory-based risk preferences during a pandemic of COVID-1919
Long-term consequences of fertility on elderly labor supply19
Feed the children, free the women? Evidence from the China rural nutrition improvement program19
Does winning a venture competition encourage entrepreneurial exploration? Evidence from China19
Carbon dioxide emission typology and policy implications: Evidence from machine learning19
Sectoral shocks, production linkages, and business cycles in China18
Adapting to trade friction: The supply chain dynamics of Chinese suppliers18
Economic geography of talent migration and agglomeration in China: A dual-driver framework18
Leveling the playing field: How intellectual property protection countervails foreign quality shocks18
The impact of welfare design on consumption patterns of the poor: Evidence from the recent Dibao reform in rural China17
Driving restrictions, traffic speeds and carbon emissions: Evidence from high-frequency data17
Moving out of agriculture: How trade liberalization affects agricultural productivity in China17
Financial permeation and rural poverty reduction Nexus: Further insights from counties in China17
More than a new campus: University's spatial expansion, emerging knowledge cluster, and innovation growth17
Gender difference in leaders framed with responsibility or authority: An experimental study17
Carbon dioxide fertilization, carbon neutrality, and food security17
Price of going green: The employment effects of the environmental protection tax in China16
Leave behind or migrate? Evidence from a field experiment in China concerning the impact of being left behind/migrating status on children's behaviour and preferences16
Breaking segregation in classrooms: Peer composition and inter-group relationships16
China's low-carbon technology trade: Facts and implications16
Can robots reshape gender role attitudes?16
BT-to-VAT reform and firm productivity: Evidence from a quasi-experiment in China16
Extreme heat and firms' robot adoption: Evidence from China16
Environmental regulation and manufacturing employment: Evidence from China's Eleventh Five-Year Plan16
Top incomes and income polarisation in China16
Multi-province comparisons of digital financial inclusion performance in China: A group ranking method with preference analysis16
Gender identity, preference, and relative income within households15
Effects of cohort size on college premium: Evidence from China's higher education expansion15
The role of information in nudging Chinese consumers from choosing sugar to alternative sweeteners15
Family size, labor supply, and job prestige: Evidence from three decennial censuses in China15
Early-life experience of land reform and entrepreneurship15
Husbands' wages and married women's labor supply in urban China15
The effect of soil pollution information disclosure on housing prices15
Follow the gaze: How social attention shapes gendered trading choices15
Legal environment, contract intensity, and export quality15
The impact of COVID-19 on employment and income of vocational graduates in China: Evidence from surveys in January and July 202014
Marriage, gender, and premiums from cadre parents14
The adoption and use of mobile payment: Determinants and relationship with bank access☆14
Who benefits from compulsory education? Evidence from the average and heterogeneous effects on migrant welfare in China14
Judicial institutions, local protection and market segmentation: Evidence from the establishment of interprovincial circuit tribunals in China14
Editorial Board14
Working mothers' dilemma during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from China14
Corrigendum to “The political economy of COVID-19 in China” [China Economic Review, Volume 85, 2024, 102143]14
The political economy of COVID-19 in China14
Key links in network interactions: Assessing route-specific travel restrictions in China during the Covid-19 pandemic14
Soybean overweight shock (SOS): The impact of trade liberalization in China on overweight prevalence14
Present bias, mental budget constraint, and the payday consumption cycle14
Environmental consequences of fuel price shocks in China13
Job destruction and creation: Labor reallocation entailed by the clean air action in China13
Do firms benefit from public information services: Evidence from a tax hotline program in China13
Fleshing out the olive? Observations on income polarization in China since 198113
How the COVID-19 pandemic affects job sentiments of rural teachers13
College peer effects on learning behaviors in synchronous online courses13
Birthplace diversity and private giving: Evidence from China13
Relative deprivation and health revisited: New evidence from middle-aged and older adults in rural China13
An experimental study of intra- and international cooperation: Chinese and American play in the Prisoner’s Dilemma Game13
Clan culture and risk-taking of Chinese enterprises12
Dual social identities, cross-cultural differences, and cooperation: Evidence from the One Country, Two Systems paradigm12
The effect of education on health and health behaviors: Evidence from the college enrollment expansion in China12
Effects of wealth on the intensity of competition: Evidence from a lab experiment12
Heterogeneous peer effects under endogenous selection: An application to local and migrant children in elementary schools in Shanghai12
Cognitive ability, non-cognitive ability and occupational attainment in China12
Does historic preservation affect firms' output? Evidence from the awarding of the Historic City title in China12
From welfare enterprises to broad tax incentives: Effects of employment policy changes on disabled in China12
Editorial Board11
Pandemic and insurance purchase: How do people respond to unprecedented risk and uncertainty?11
Does learning longer improve student achievement? Evidence from online education of graduating students in a high school during COVID-19 period11
Environmental regulation and outward foreign direct investment: Evidence from China11
Does export liberalization cause the agglomeration of pollution? Evidence from China11
Profiling Chinese entrepreneurs11
Impacts of CEO-employee pay disparity on investor behavior and market dynamics: Evidence from laboratory asset markets11
Good for bad: The heterogeneous effects of export controls on firms' ESG11
China's skill-biased imports11
Sibling spillovers in rural China: A story of sisters11
Does the early bird catch the worm? Evidence and interpretation on the long-term impact of school entry age in China11
Customer digital transformation and enterprise risk-taking: Evidence from Chinese supply chains11
Financial reforms and capital accumulation in developing economies: New data and evidence11
The social support returns to college education in China: Evidence from online medical crowdfunding11
Transborder spillover effects of poverty on crime: Applying spatial econometric models to Chinese data11
Does trade liberalization improve child health? Evidence from China11
Can military executives overcome difficulties in corporate value creation? ——Evidence from China11
Efficiency or equity? The effect of an exogenous agricultural commercial shock: Evidence from Manchuria in the 1930s11
Tax Incentives, On-the-job Training, and Human Capital Accumulation: Evidence from China11
When left-behind children become adults and parents: The long-term human capital consequences of parental absence in China11
City size and the employment of female migrant workers in the service sector: Evidence from urban China11
Does targeted poverty alleviation policy lead to happy life? Evidence from rural China11
The green promise of digital finance: Exploring its effects and mechanisms on carbon reduction11
Communist Party branch and labour rights: Evidence from Chinese entrepreneurs10
Income inequality and shadow education in China: From the perspective of social stratification10
Assessing the role of economic globalization on energy efficiency: Evidence from a global perspective10
Geographical proximity to government and corporate litigation behavior: Evidence from China10
Digital finance development, financial mismatches, and corporate shadow banking activities10
Looking good by doing good: CEO attractiveness and corporate philanthropy10
The impact of the “Full Liberalization of Household Registration” policy on the free migration of rural labor10
Born to be different: The role of local political leaders in poverty reduction in China10
Income inequality and happiness: Which inequalities matter in China?10
Depressed access to formal finance and the use of credit card debt in Chinese SMEs9
How trade drives fluctuations in macroeconomics in China – A multi-level dynamic factor approach9
How is Fintech reshaping the traditional financial markets? New evidence from InsurTech and insurance sectors in China9
Birth order effects and parenting behaviors9
Diet in China during substantial economic growth: Quality, inequality, trends, and determinants9
Causal effect of aviation on air pollution: An instrumental variable from faraway COVID-19 restrictions in China9
Trade in factor income and the US-China trade balance9
Editorial Board9
Urbanization or “Townization”? Measuring the evolution of urban systems in modern China9
The power of policy words: PBC communications and their impact on capital flows amidst global crises9
Editorial Board9
The backfiring effects of monetary and gift incentives on Covid-19 vaccination intentions9
From social networks to sustainable solutions: Unpacking the influence of social capital on green innovation9
How does enterprise digitalization affect corporate carbon emission in China: A firm-level study9
Intergenerational preference transmission in physician families during the pandemic: Theory and evidence9
Intensified law enforcement and firm innovation: Evidence from China's antitrust consolidation9
Recent progress in hukou reform and labor market integration in China: 1996–20229
Internet use and fertility behavior among reproductive-age women in China9
Greening of Chinese industrial sector: Stakeholders' responsiveness to non-governmental environmental monitoring8
Contract enforcement efficiency and corporate vertical specialization: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment of “announcement of dishonest persons” in China8
The driving forces of China's business cycles: Evidence from an estimated DSGE model with housing and banking8
Digital finance and investment of micro and small enterprises: Evidence from China8
The relaxation of birth control policies adversely affects women's income: Evidence from China's universal two-child policy8
Buy now, pay later as liquidity insurance: Evidence from an early experiment in China8
Editorial Board8
Lost in translation: Dialect distance, social assimilation and immigrant crimes in China8
Synergizing anti-corruption strategies: Group monitoring and endogenous crackdown – An experimental investigation8
A screening perspective on experimental zones8
Neighbors in space: Satellite imagery and Chinese B-share discount8
Editorial Board8
China's aid-giving modalities: Impacts on sustainable growth in China-Africa trade8
Oil supply news shock and Chinese economy8
Regulation-induced digitalization8
Free teacher education in rural China: Incentives and challenges8
Delayed tax rebates, cash flow, and corporate spending: A quasi-experiment from China8
Student leadership experience and job accessibility: An experiment from China8
Does polycentric spatial structure narrow the urban-rural income gap? – Evidence from six urban clusters in China8
Spillover effects of external economic shocks on African sovereign bonds8
New “useless education theory”: Highly educated parents' expectations for their children's education—Evidence from the one-child policy8
Assessing economic resilience in a manufacturing-based region through industrial restructuring with environmental thresholds: An updating framework8
Next stop innovation: Subway stations opening and spatial agglomeration of high-tech enterprises7
Ownership concentration and financial policy of China's listed firms7
High-level opening-up and enterprise innovation resilience: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment of China's belt and road initiative7
Labor price distortion and export product markups: Evidence from China labor market7
Land price regulation and firms' global value chain position: Evidence from China7
Do teachers colleges prepare more effective teachers? Evidence from a top school district in China7
Early exposure to air pollution and cognitive development later in life: Evidence from China7
Urban population distribution in China: Evidence from internet population7
‘One System, Two Shadows’: A local public finance perspective on China's shadow banking system7
University education, homeownership and housing wealth7
The power of wings: How air connections fuel cross-regional collaboration in China?7
Publish or perish? A tale of academic publications in Chinese universities7
sBooming costs, boozing habits: How soaring housing prices drive smoking and drinking in China7
Can IP tribunals increase firm patent applications?—Empirical evidence from China7
Traffic violations and economic preferences: Evidence from full-time drivers of a large transportation network company in China7
Sustainable development in China? A nonparametric decomposition of economic growth7
Does cross-border investment improve mutual fund performance? Evidence from China7
Climate Adaptation through Trade: Evidence and Mechanism from Heatwaves on Firms' Imports7
Cognitive ability, the Big Five, and rural-to-urban migration in China7
China's domestic production networks7
Monetary transmission and government investment in China7
Electrification and economic growth: Evidence from china's rural primary electrification program7
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