China Economic Review

Papers
(The median citation count of China Economic Review is 3. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
The hidden cost of corporate tax cuts: Evidence from worker health in China164
Dams, cropland productivity, and economic development in China127
Research on contracting institutions and convergence112
Unexpected opportunity for girls: Earthquake, disaster relief and female education in China's poor counties105
The innovation of family firms in China: New evidence from the China employer-employee survey93
Choosing tournament for children: Parenting style and information intervention90
Intergenerational transmission of non-cognitive abilities: Evidence from the Wuhan Birth Cohort Studies87
How corruption prevails: A laboratory experiment76
Earning reduction caused by air pollution: Evidence from China74
Enhancing China's image in Africa: The role of the Belt and Road Initiative67
Editorial Board62
Unveiling paradoxes of access: How higher education expansion shapes intergenerational educational mobility in China's admission quota system62
How does people’s liberation army related business closure affect the local economy?59
Publish or perish: Up-or-out rules and research performance of universities58
Short-term impact of climate change on labor market in China: Quantitative spatial analysis based on an oligopsony model56
Local guarantees and SOE bond pricing in China56
Can higher education improve egalitarian gender role attitudes? Evidence from China56
Toward consumer city: Subway network expansion and consumption industry growth56
Can data elements enhance urban innovation? Evidence from China55
Hukou status, housing tenure choice and wealth accumulation in urban China54
Perceived relative income, fairness, and the role of government: Evidence from a randomized survey experiment in China52
Valuing research output: Evidence from a Chinese university50
Development zones and green innovation: Evidence from Chinese listed companies49
The income redistribution effect of social security in China44
Broadband internet and income inequality among the floating population: Evidence from the “broadband China” strategy in China44
Impact of fast internet access on employment: Evidence from a broadband expansion in China44
Intensive judicial oversight and corporate green innovations: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China42
Has the digital economy improved the consumption of poor and subsistence households?41
China's growing but slowing inequality of household wealth, 2013–2018: A challenge to ‘common prosperity’?38
How to encourage consumers' ongoing participation in physical exercise via feedback: Evidence from a longitudinal field experiment38
Peer effects in rural housing demand: Evidence from China36
Is the People's Bank of China consistent in words and deeds?36
The effect of clean heating policy on individual health: Evidence from China35
Patrilineality, fertility, and women's income: Evidence from family lineage in China35
CO2 allocation and equity issues under China's carbon neutrality targets: Recent advances and a review34
Editorial33
Editorial Board33
Effects of temperature on mental health: Evidence and mechanisms from China32
What you breathe makes you poor: The effect of air pollution on income32
The impacts of superstition on risk preferences and beliefs: Evidence from the Chinese zodiac year32
Quality of life in Chinese cities32
Unpacking the negative welfare effect of social media: Evidence from a large scale nationally representative time-use survey in China32
A blessing and a curse: Identifying how knowledge complexity influences regional innovation efficiency in the presence of varying spatial externalities31
Who benefits from household energy transition? A cost-benefit analysis based on household survey data in China31
Memory of famine: The persistent impact of famine experience on food waste behavior30
The spatiotemporal evolution of COVID-19 in China and its impact on urban economic resilience30
Air pollution and agricultural labor supply: Evidence from China30
Corporate key labs: Breakthrough or white elephant?29
Nonlinear relationship between the number of children and late-life cognition29
Decision-making as cognitive household labor: Higher education expansion, women empowerment, and their intra-household decision-making responsibility29
Higher education expansion and supply of teachers in China28
Creating cities and food security challenge: Evidence from the city–county merger policy in China28
Capital flows under integration: Evidence from China's metropolitan area development planning28
Willingness-to-pay for early childhood development: A field experiment in Western China28
Bankruptcy judicial reform and corporate trade credit financing27
China's poverty reduction miracle and relative poverty: Focusing on the roles of growth and inequality27
Resource-Exhausted City Transition to continue industrial development27
How digital finance shapes residents' health: Evidence from China26
Imports of key capital goods and quality upgrading: Evidence from China's import subsidy policy26
The value-added tax reform and labor market outcomes: Firm-level evidence from China26
Is care by grandparents or parents better for children's non-cognitive skills? Evidence on locus of control from China26
Risk education and tax aggressiveness: Evidence from China's auditor certification reform26
The effectiveness and costs of nonpharmaceutical interventions for COVID-19 containment: A border discontinuous difference-in-difference approach25
Editorial Board25
Maternity leave reform and women's labor supply: Evidence from China25
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 China24
Investigating the linkages between industrial policies and M&A dynamics: Evidence from China24
Revisiting income inequality among households: New evidence from the Chinese Household Income Project24
Childhood trauma among Chinese inmates24
Optimal taxation, differential mortality, and endogenous human capital accumulation in China24
Regulating strategic expense relabelling in R&D tax incentives by mandatory information disclosure24
Digitalization of industries and labor mobility in China23
Can reducing agricultural trade costs foster the transformation of the agrifood system? Evidence from China23
Did the anti-avoidance rules curtail the profit shifting of foreign multinationals in China?23
Search frictions in rental markets: Evidence from urban China23
BigTech credit risk assessment for SMEs23
Bubble into reallocation: How bubbles improve capital allocation in China22
Endogenous price discrimination with asymmetric firms22
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
Higher education reform in China: A comprehensive review of policymaking, implementation, and outcomes since 197822
Sectoral shocks, production linkages, and business cycles in China21
Growing pains for others: Using holidays to identify the pollution spillover between China and South Korea21
Narrow framing and under-diversification: Empirical evidence from Chinese households21
Feed the children, free the women? Evidence from the China rural nutrition improvement program21
Removing the “Hats of Poverty”: Effects of ending the national poverty county program on fiscal expenditures20
Driving restrictions, traffic speeds and carbon emissions: Evidence from high-frequency data20
Does winning a venture competition encourage entrepreneurial exploration? Evidence from China20
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
Onshore spot and offshore forward markets for RMB: Evidence from the “8.11” exchange rate regime reform19
CEO experience and corporate financing decisions: Evidence from a natural experiment in China19
Understanding the role of homeownership in wealth inequality: Evidence from urban China (1995–2018)19
Exposure to socially influential peer parents: Evidence from cadre parents in China19
Children's marriage and parental subjective well-being: Evidence from China19
Digital financial inclusion and subjective well-being – Evidence from China health and retirement longitudinal study19
Attraction or repulsion? The creation of civilized cities and the resident intention of migrants19
Leveling the playing field: How intellectual property protection countervails foreign quality shocks19
MULAN in the name: Causes and consequences of gendered Chinese names19
State-owned enterprise presence: Local spillovers19
Financial permeation and rural poverty reduction Nexus: Further insights from counties in China18
The impact of welfare design on consumption patterns of the poor: Evidence from the recent Dibao reform in rural China18
Export contraction and input switching in an aging China18
Gender identity, preference, and relative income within households17
Carbon dioxide emission typology and policy implications: Evidence from machine learning17
Economic geography of talent migration and agglomeration in China: A dual-driver framework17
Whom to educate? Financial literacy and investor awareness17
Adapting to trade friction: The supply chain dynamics of Chinese suppliers17
Extreme heat and firms' robot adoption: Evidence from China16
More than a new campus: University's spatial expansion, emerging knowledge cluster, and innovation growth16
Moving out of agriculture: How trade liberalization affects agricultural productivity in China16
Gender difference in leaders framed with responsibility or authority: An experimental study16
The effect of soil pollution information disclosure on housing prices16
How much did China's emergence as “the world's factory” contribute to its national income?16
Top incomes and income polarisation in China16
BT-to-VAT reform and firm productivity: Evidence from a quasi-experiment in China16
Can robots reshape gender role attitudes?16
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
Price of going green: The employment effects of the environmental protection tax in China16
Editorial Board15
Follow the gaze: How social attention shapes gendered trading choices15
Carbon dioxide fertilization, carbon neutrality, and food security15
The non-linear effect of daily weather on economic performance: Evidence from China15
Environmental regulation and manufacturing employment: Evidence from China's Eleventh Five-Year Plan15
Multi-province comparisons of digital financial inclusion performance in China: A group ranking method with preference analysis15
Working mothers' dilemma during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from China15
Family size, labor supply, and job prestige: Evidence from three decennial censuses in China15
Early-life experience of land reform and entrepreneurship15
Legal environment, contract intensity, and export quality14
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
Marriage, gender, and premiums from cadre parents14
The impact of COVID-19 on employment and income of vocational graduates in China: Evidence from surveys in January and July 202014
Soybean overweight shock (SOS): The impact of trade liberalization in China on overweight prevalence13
Corrigendum to “The political economy of COVID-19 in China” [China Economic Review, Volume 85, 2024, 102143]13
Could government lead the way? Evaluation of China's patent subsidy policy on patent quality13
The role of information in nudging Chinese consumers from choosing sugar to alternative sweeteners13
Servicification of investment and structural transformation: The case of China13
Does crop insurance reduce pesticide usage? Evidence from China13
Present bias, mental budget constraint, and the payday consumption cycle13
Effects of cohort size on college premium: Evidence from China's higher education expansion13
Judicial institutions, local protection and market segmentation: Evidence from the establishment of interprovincial circuit tribunals in China13
Environmental consequences of fuel price shocks in China13
Do firms benefit from public information services: Evidence from a tax hotline program in China13
The adoption and use of mobile payment: Determinants and relationship with bank access☆13
Husbands' wages and married women's labor supply in urban China13
How the COVID-19 pandemic affects job sentiments of rural teachers12
Relative deprivation and health revisited: New evidence from middle-aged and older adults in rural China12
Fleshing out the olive? Observations on income polarization in China since 198112
An experimental study of intra- and international cooperation: Chinese and American play in the Prisoner’s Dilemma Game12
Birthplace diversity and private giving: Evidence from China12
Local political corruption and M&As12
Does tax deduction relax financing constraints? Evidence from China's value-added tax reform12
College peer effects on learning behaviors in synchronous online courses12
Job destruction and creation: Labor reallocation entailed by the clean air action in China12
Clan culture and risk-taking of Chinese enterprises12
When left-behind children become adults and parents: The long-term human capital consequences of parental absence in China11
Financial reforms and capital accumulation in developing economies: New data and evidence11
Efficiency or equity? The effect of an exogenous agricultural commercial shock: Evidence from Manchuria in the 1930s11
Editorial Board11
Effects of wealth on the intensity of competition: Evidence from a lab experiment11
Pandemic and insurance purchase: How do people respond to unprecedented risk and uncertainty?11
Does trade liberalization improve child health? Evidence from China11
The effect of education on health and health behaviors: Evidence from the college enrollment expansion in China11
Sibling spillovers in rural China: A story of sisters11
Heterogeneous peer effects under endogenous selection: An application to local and migrant children in elementary schools in Shanghai11
Does export liberalization cause the agglomeration of pollution? Evidence from China11
Urbanization or “Townization”? Measuring the evolution of urban systems in modern China10
Good for bad: The heterogeneous effects of export controls on firms' ESG10
Does historic preservation affect firms' output? Evidence from the awarding of the Historic City title in China10
Does the early bird catch the worm? Evidence and interpretation on the long-term impact of school entry age in China10
Does learning longer improve student achievement? Evidence from online education of graduating students in a high school during COVID-19 period10
Intergenerational preference transmission in physician families during the pandemic: Theory and evidence10
Environmental regulation and outward foreign direct investment: Evidence from China10
Intensified law enforcement and firm innovation: Evidence from China's antitrust consolidation10
Tax Incentives, On-the-job Training, and Human Capital Accumulation: Evidence from China10
Can military executives overcome difficulties in corporate value creation? ——Evidence from China10
City size and the employment of female migrant workers in the service sector: Evidence from urban China10
Impacts of CEO-employee pay disparity on investor behavior and market dynamics: Evidence from laboratory asset markets10
Birth order effects and parenting behaviors10
The social support returns to college education in China: Evidence from online medical crowdfunding10
Customer digital transformation and enterprise risk-taking: Evidence from Chinese supply chains10
Does targeted poverty alleviation policy lead to happy life? Evidence from rural China10
China's skill-biased imports10
Diet in China during substantial economic growth: Quality, inequality, trends, and determinants9
How is Fintech reshaping the traditional financial markets? New evidence from InsurTech and insurance sectors in China9
The impact of the “Full Liberalization of Household Registration” policy on the free migration of rural labor9
Looking good by doing good: CEO attractiveness and corporate philanthropy9
Born to be different: The role of local political leaders in poverty reduction in China9
Assessing the role of economic globalization on energy efficiency: Evidence from a global perspective9
Editorial Board9
How does enterprise digitalization affect corporate carbon emission in China: A firm-level study9
The paradox of developing agricultural mechanization services in China: Supporting or kicking out smallholder farmers?9
The backfiring effects of monetary and gift incentives on Covid-19 vaccination intentions9
Geographical proximity to government and corporate litigation behavior: Evidence from China9
Is the 2003 SARS epidemic over? Long-term effects of epidemic exposure on mortality among older adults9
Income inequality and happiness: Which inequalities matter in China?9
Editorial Board9
Reciprocity information and wage personalization9
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
Trade in factor income and the US-China trade balance9
Causal effect of aviation on air pollution: An instrumental variable from faraway COVID-19 restrictions in China9
Communist Party branch and labour rights: Evidence from Chinese entrepreneurs9
The green promise of digital finance: Exploring its effects and mechanisms on carbon reduction9
Transborder spillover effects of poverty on crime: Applying spatial econometric models to Chinese data9
Depressed access to formal finance and the use of credit card debt in Chinese SMEs9
An eye for an eye? The trade and price effects of China's retaliatory tariffs on U.S. exports9
Delayed tax rebates, cash flow, and corporate spending: A quasi-experiment from China8
The driving forces of China's business cycles: Evidence from an estimated DSGE model with housing and banking8
Does polycentric spatial structure narrow the urban-rural income gap? – Evidence from six urban clusters in China8
Greening of Chinese industrial sector: Stakeholders' responsiveness to non-governmental environmental monitoring8
How do poverty alleviation coordinators help the impoverished in rural China? -- Evidence from the Chinese poor population tracking dataset8
Editorial Board8
A screening perspective on experimental zones8
Lost in translation: Dialect distance, social assimilation and immigrant crimes in China8
Digital finance and investment of micro and small enterprises: Evidence from China8
Regulation-induced digitalization8
Internet use and fertility behavior among reproductive-age women in China8
Student leadership experience and job accessibility: An experiment from China8
Synergizing anti-corruption strategies: Group monitoring and endogenous crackdown – An experimental investigation8
‘One System, Two Shadows’: A local public finance perspective on China's shadow banking system8
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
Editorial Board8
Neighbors in space: Satellite imagery and Chinese B-share discount7
Editorial Board7
The relaxation of birth control policies adversely affects women's income: Evidence from China's universal two-child policy7
New “useless education theory”: Highly educated parents' expectations for their children's education—Evidence from the one-child policy7
Spillover effects of external economic shocks on African sovereign bonds7
Land price regulation and firms' global value chain position: Evidence from China7
China's domestic production networks7
Sustainable development in China? A nonparametric decomposition of economic growth7
China's aid-giving modalities: Impacts on sustainable growth in China-Africa trade7
Are more children better than one? Evidence from a lab experiment of decision making7
University education, homeownership and housing wealth7
Urban population distribution in China: Evidence from internet population7
Climate Adaptation through Trade: Evidence and Mechanism from Heatwaves on Firms' Imports7
Monetary transmission and government investment in China7
Do teachers colleges prepare more effective teachers? Evidence from a top school district in China7
Can IP tribunals increase firm patent applications?—Empirical evidence from China7
Does cross-border investment improve mutual fund performance? Evidence from China7
Human capital in the financial sector and corporate debt maturity7
How does broadband internet affect firm-level labor misallocation: The role of information frictions7
Buy now, pay later as liquidity insurance: Evidence from an early experiment in China7
The effect living arrangements and intergenerational support have on the incidence of catastrophic health expenditure: A microeconomic analysis for China7
Labor price distortion and export product markups: Evidence from China labor market7
Traffic violations and economic preferences: Evidence from full-time drivers of a large transportation network company in China7
Ownership concentration and financial policy of China's listed firms7
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