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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
The hidden cost of corporate tax cuts: Evidence from worker health in China167
Research on contracting institutions and convergence117
Unexpected opportunity for girls: Earthquake, disaster relief and female education in China's poor counties110
Choosing tournament for children: Parenting style and information intervention102
Intergenerational transmission of non-cognitive abilities: Evidence from the Wuhan Birth Cohort Studies94
How corruption prevails: A laboratory experiment90
Earning reduction caused by air pollution: Evidence from China89
Dams, cropland productivity, and economic development in China76
Unveiling paradoxes of access: How higher education expansion shapes intergenerational educational mobility in China's admission quota system69
Editorial Board68
The innovation of family firms in China: New evidence from the China employer-employee survey64
How does people’s liberation army related business closure affect the local economy?64
Publish or perish: Up-or-out rules and research performance of universities64
Hukou status, housing tenure choice and wealth accumulation in urban China62
Short-term impact of climate change on labor market in China: Quantitative spatial analysis based on an oligopsony model61
Perceived relative income, fairness, and the role of government: Evidence from a randomized survey experiment in China60
Toward consumer city: Subway network expansion and consumption industry growth59
Effects of export growth on the location choices of migrant workers: Evidence from China59
Export destinations and pollution reduction: Theory and evidence from Chinese enterprises59
Editorial Board53
Valuing research output: Evidence from a Chinese university52
The income redistribution effect of social security in China49
Broadband internet and income inequality among the floating population: Evidence from the “broadband China” strategy in China45
Has the digital economy improved the consumption of poor and subsistence households?45
Can data elements enhance urban innovation? Evidence from China44
Enhancing China's image in Africa: The role of the Belt and Road Initiative44
Can higher education improve egalitarian gender role attitudes? Evidence from China40
Intensive judicial oversight and corporate green innovations: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China39
Development zones and green innovation: Evidence from Chinese listed companies39
Impact of fast internet access on employment: Evidence from a broadband expansion in China38
Local guarantees and SOE bond pricing in China38
Equity diversification as a catalyst for Artificial Intelligence innovation: Evidence from Chinese state-owned enterprises37
Editorial Board35
How to encourage consumers' ongoing participation in physical exercise via feedback: Evidence from a longitudinal field experiment35
Editorial35
CO2 allocation and equity issues under China's carbon neutrality targets: Recent advances and a review35
Quality of life in Chinese cities35
Who benefits from household energy transition? A cost-benefit analysis based on household survey data in China34
The impacts of superstition on risk preferences and beliefs: Evidence from the Chinese zodiac year34
What you breathe makes you poor: The effect of air pollution on income34
Is the People's Bank of China consistent in words and deeds?33
A blessing and a curse: Identifying how knowledge complexity influences regional innovation efficiency in the presence of varying spatial externalities33
Patrilineality, fertility, and women's income: Evidence from family lineage in China33
Unpacking the negative welfare effect of social media: Evidence from a large scale nationally representative time-use survey in China31
Memory of famine: The persistent impact of famine experience on food waste behavior31
China's growing but slowing inequality of household wealth, 2013–2018: A challenge to ‘common prosperity’?31
Higher education expansion and supply of teachers in China30
Decision-making as cognitive household labor: Higher education expansion, women empowerment, and their intra-household decision-making responsibility30
Air pollution and agricultural labor supply: Evidence from China30
Capital flows under integration: Evidence from China's metropolitan area development planning30
The spatiotemporal evolution of COVID-19 in China and its impact on urban economic resilience30
Effects of temperature on mental health: Evidence and mechanisms from China30
Nonlinear relationship between the number of children and late-life cognition30
The effect of clean heating policy on individual health: Evidence from China30
Peer effects in rural housing demand: Evidence from China30
Corporate key labs: Breakthrough or white elephant?29
Self-employment and co-villager networks of internal migrants in China28
Willingness-to-pay for early childhood development: A field experiment in Western China28
China's poverty reduction miracle and relative poverty: Focusing on the roles of growth and inequality28
Creating cities and food security challenge: Evidence from the city–county merger policy in China28
How digital finance shapes residents' health: Evidence from China28
The value-added tax reform and labor market outcomes: Firm-level evidence from China27
Bankruptcy judicial reform and corporate trade credit financing27
The effectiveness and costs of nonpharmaceutical interventions for COVID-19 containment: A border discontinuous difference-in-difference approach26
Is care by grandparents or parents better for children's non-cognitive skills? Evidence on locus of control from China26
Childhood trauma among Chinese inmates26
Regulating strategic expense relabelling in R&D tax incentives by mandatory information disclosure26
Higher education expansion and the rise of China in economics research26
Editorial Board26
Investigating the linkages between industrial policies and M&A dynamics: Evidence from China26
Optimal taxation, differential mortality, and endogenous human capital accumulation in China26
Maternity leave reform and women's labor supply: Evidence from China25
Bubble into reallocation: How bubbles improve capital allocation in China25
Digitalization of industries and labor mobility in China25
Endogenous price discrimination with asymmetric firms25
BigTech credit risk assessment for SMEs23
Can reducing agricultural trade costs foster the transformation of the agrifood system? Evidence from China23
Revisiting income inequality among households: New evidence from the Chinese Household Income Project23
Search frictions in rental markets: Evidence from urban China22
Higher education reform in China: A comprehensive review of policymaking, implementation, and outcomes since 197822
Pursuing a brighter future: Impact of the Hukou reform on human capital investment in migrant children in China22
Market structure, resource allocation, and industry productivity growth: Firm-level evidence from China's steel industry22
The ladder of prosperity: An analysis of housing wealth accumulation across income groups in urban China22
Does villager social capital hinder poverty targeting? Evidence from poverty-stricken county of Western China22
Did the anti-avoidance rules curtail the profit shifting of foreign multinationals in China?22
Imports of key capital goods and quality upgrading: Evidence from China's import subsidy policy22
The limits to growth in the AI-driven economy22
State-owned enterprise presence: Local spillovers21
Growing pains for others: Using holidays to identify the pollution spillover between China and South Korea21
Children's marriage and parental subjective well-being: Evidence from China21
Driving restrictions, traffic speeds and carbon emissions: Evidence from high-frequency data21
Does winning a venture competition encourage entrepreneurial exploration? Evidence from China21
Export contraction and input switching in an aging China21
Understanding the role of homeownership in wealth inequality: Evidence from urban China (1995–2018)20
Leveling the playing field: How intellectual property protection countervails foreign quality shocks20
Digital financial inclusion and subjective well-being – Evidence from China health and retirement longitudinal study20
Relationship between health behavior compliance and prospect theory-based risk preferences during a pandemic of COVID-1920
Industrialize with tax structure change: Agricultural tax abolition and local industrial growth in China20
Long-term consequences of fertility on elderly labor supply19
Sectoral shocks, production linkages, and business cycles in China19
Exposure to socially influential peer parents: Evidence from cadre parents in China19
Carbon dioxide emission typology and policy implications: Evidence from machine learning19
CEO experience and corporate financing decisions: Evidence from a natural experiment in China19
Financial permeation and rural poverty reduction Nexus: Further insights from counties in China19
Attraction or repulsion? The creation of civilized cities and the resident intention of migrants18
Feed the children, free the women? Evidence from the China rural nutrition improvement program18
Narrow framing and under-diversification: Empirical evidence from Chinese households18
Economic geography of talent migration and agglomeration in China: A dual-driver framework18
The impact of welfare design on consumption patterns of the poor: Evidence from the recent Dibao reform in rural China18
Removing the “Hats of Poverty”: Effects of ending the national poverty county program on fiscal expenditures18
MULAN in the name: Causes and consequences of gendered Chinese names18
More than a new campus: University's spatial expansion, emerging knowledge cluster, and innovation growth17
China's low-carbon technology trade: Facts and implications17
Gender difference in leaders framed with responsibility or authority: An experimental study17
Early-life experience of land reform and entrepreneurship17
Adapting to trade friction: The supply chain dynamics of Chinese suppliers17
Extreme heat and firms' robot adoption: Evidence from China16
The effect of soil pollution information disclosure on housing prices16
Gender identity, preference, and relative income within households16
Carbon dioxide fertilization, carbon neutrality, and food security16
Can robots reshape gender role attitudes?16
Moving out of agriculture: How trade liberalization affects agricultural productivity in China16
Price of going green: The employment effects of the environmental protection tax in China16
Top incomes and income polarisation in China16
Family size, labor supply, and job prestige: Evidence from three decennial censuses in China16
Editorial Board15
BT-to-VAT reform and firm productivity: Evidence from a quasi-experiment in China15
Multi-province comparisons of digital financial inclusion performance in China: A group ranking method with preference analysis15
Follow the gaze: How social attention shapes gendered trading choices15
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 preferences15
The political economy of COVID-19 in China15
How much did China's emergence as “the world's factory” contribute to its national income?15
Environmental regulation and manufacturing employment: Evidence from China's Eleventh Five-Year Plan15
Soybean overweight shock (SOS): The impact of trade liberalization in China on overweight prevalence14
The role of information in nudging Chinese consumers from choosing sugar to alternative sweeteners14
Legal environment, contract intensity, and export quality14
Husbands' wages and married women's labor supply in urban China14
Key links in network interactions: Assessing route-specific travel restrictions in China during the Covid-19 pandemic14
The impact of COVID-19 on employment and income of vocational graduates in China: Evidence from surveys in January and July 202014
Does crop insurance reduce pesticide usage? Evidence from China14
Effects of cohort size on college premium: Evidence from China's higher education expansion14
The non-linear effect of daily weather on economic performance: Evidence from China14
Marriage, gender, and premiums from cadre parents14
The adoption and use of mobile payment: Determinants and relationship with bank access☆14
Could government lead the way? Evaluation of China's patent subsidy policy on patent quality14
Environmental consequences of fuel price shocks in China13
College peer effects on learning behaviors in synchronous online courses13
The effect of education on health and health behaviors: Evidence from the college enrollment expansion in China13
Fleshing out the olive? Observations on income polarization in China since 198113
Working mothers' dilemma during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from China13
Corrigendum to “The political economy of COVID-19 in China” [China Economic Review, Volume 85, 2024, 102143]13
Present bias, mental budget constraint, and the payday consumption cycle13
Relative deprivation and health revisited: New evidence from middle-aged and older adults in rural China13
Judicial institutions, local protection and market segmentation: Evidence from the establishment of interprovincial circuit tribunals in China13
An experimental study of intra- and international cooperation: Chinese and American play in the Prisoner’s Dilemma Game13
Job destruction and creation: Labor reallocation entailed by the clean air action in China13
Local political corruption and M&As13
Do firms benefit from public information services: Evidence from a tax hotline program in China12
How the COVID-19 pandemic affects job sentiments of rural teachers12
Sibling spillovers in rural China: A story of sisters12
Birthplace diversity and private giving: Evidence from China12
The time-varying zone-like and asymmetric preference of central banks: Evidence from China12
Effects of wealth on the intensity of competition: Evidence from a lab experiment12
Clan culture and risk-taking of Chinese enterprises12
Pandemic and insurance purchase: How do people respond to unprecedented risk and uncertainty?12
Financial reforms and capital accumulation in developing economies: New data and evidence12
Does the early bird catch the worm? Evidence and interpretation on the long-term impact of school entry age in China11
The social support returns to college education in China: Evidence from online medical crowdfunding11
Heterogeneous peer effects under endogenous selection: An application to local and migrant children in elementary schools in Shanghai11
Editorial Board11
City size and the employment of female migrant workers in the service sector: Evidence from urban China11
Profiling Chinese entrepreneurs11
Does historic preservation affect firms' output? Evidence from the awarding of the Historic City title in China11
Customer digital transformation and enterprise risk-taking: Evidence from Chinese supply chains11
Does trade liberalization improve child health? Evidence from China11
China's skill-biased imports11
Does learning longer improve student achievement? Evidence from online education of graduating students in a high school during COVID-19 period11
Can military executives overcome difficulties in corporate value creation? ——Evidence from China11
Tax Incentives, On-the-job Training, and Human Capital Accumulation: Evidence from China11
Efficiency or equity? The effect of an exogenous agricultural commercial shock: Evidence from Manchuria in the 1930s11
Does export liberalization cause the agglomeration of pollution? Evidence from China11
The green promise of digital finance: Exploring its effects and mechanisms on carbon reduction10
Good for bad: The heterogeneous effects of export controls on firms' ESG10
Environmental regulation and outward foreign direct investment: Evidence from China10
Born to be different: The role of local political leaders in poverty reduction in China10
Causal effect of aviation on air pollution: An instrumental variable from faraway COVID-19 restrictions in China10
Editorial Board10
Communist Party branch and labour rights: Evidence from Chinese entrepreneurs10
Transborder spillover effects of poverty on crime: Applying spatial econometric models to Chinese data10
Intergenerational preference transmission in physician families during the pandemic: Theory and evidence10
Assessing the role of economic globalization on energy efficiency: Evidence from a global perspective10
Impacts of CEO-employee pay disparity on investor behavior and market dynamics: Evidence from laboratory asset markets10
Income inequality and shadow education in China: From the perspective of social stratification10
Editorial Board10
Intensified law enforcement and firm innovation: Evidence from China's antitrust consolidation10
Geographical proximity to government and corporate litigation behavior: Evidence from China10
Income inequality and happiness: Which inequalities matter in China?10
Does targeted poverty alleviation policy lead to happy life? Evidence from rural China10
When left-behind children become adults and parents: The long-term human capital consequences of parental absence in China10
Urbanization or “Townization”? Measuring the evolution of urban systems in modern China10
The impact of the “Full Liberalization of Household Registration” policy on the free migration of rural labor10
Birth order effects and parenting behaviors10
Looking good by doing good: CEO attractiveness and corporate philanthropy10
Diet in China during substantial economic growth: Quality, inequality, trends, and determinants9
Reciprocity information and wage personalization9
The backfiring effects of monetary and gift incentives on Covid-19 vaccination intentions9
The paradox of developing agricultural mechanization services in China: Supporting or kicking out smallholder farmers?9
A screening perspective on experimental zones9
Internet use and fertility behavior among reproductive-age women in China9
How is Fintech reshaping the traditional financial markets? New evidence from InsurTech and insurance sectors in China9
Trade in factor income and the US-China trade balance9
Editorial Board9
Synergizing anti-corruption strategies: Group monitoring and endogenous crackdown – An experimental investigation9
An eye for an eye? The trade and price effects of China's retaliatory tariffs on U.S. exports9
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
Recent progress in hukou reform and labor market integration in China: 1996–20229
Student leadership experience and job accessibility: An experiment from China9
How does enterprise digitalization affect corporate carbon emission in China: A firm-level study9
Regulation-induced digitalization8
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
New “useless education theory”: Highly educated parents' expectations for their children's education—Evidence from the one-child policy8
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
Oil supply news shock and Chinese economy8
How do poverty alleviation coordinators help the impoverished in rural China? -- Evidence from the Chinese poor population tracking dataset8
Delayed tax rebates, cash flow, and corporate spending: A quasi-experiment from China8
Assessing economic resilience in a manufacturing-based region through industrial restructuring with environmental thresholds: An updating framework8
Lost in translation: Dialect distance, social assimilation and immigrant crimes in China8
Spillover effects of external economic shocks on African sovereign bonds8
Does polycentric spatial structure narrow the urban-rural income gap? – Evidence from six urban clusters in China8
Early exposure to air pollution and cognitive development later in life: 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
Electrification and economic growth: Evidence from china's rural primary electrification program7
The power of wings: How air connections fuel cross-regional collaboration in China?7
Do teachers colleges prepare more effective teachers? Evidence from a top school district in China7
Labor price distortion and export product markups: Evidence from China labor market7
Editorial Board7
The environmental and economic consequences of environmental centralization: Evidence from China's environmental vertical management reform7
Land price regulation and firms' global value chain position: Evidence from China7
Editorial Board7
China's domestic production networks7
The effect living arrangements and intergenerational support have on the incidence of catastrophic health expenditure: A microeconomic analysis for China7
Can IP tribunals increase firm patent applications?—Empirical evidence from China7
Monetary transmission and government investment in 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
Publish or perish? A tale of academic publications in Chinese universities7
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