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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
The hidden cost of corporate tax cuts: Evidence from worker health in China134
Choosing tournament for children: Parenting style and information intervention121
How corruption prevails: A laboratory experiment119
Unveiling paradoxes of access: How higher education expansion shapes intergenerational educational mobility in China's admission quota system104
Publish or perish: Up-or-out rules and research performance of universities103
Dams, cropland productivity, and economic development in China87
Research on contracting institutions and convergence81
How does people’s liberation army related business closure affect the local economy?77
Editorial Board74
Toward consumer city: Subway network expansion and consumption industry growth72
Economic well-being and farming sustainability when trade shocks occur: Insights from agricultural households70
Broadband internet and income inequality among the floating population: Evidence from the “broadband China” strategy in China63
Equity diversification as a catalyst for Artificial Intelligence innovation: Evidence from Chinese state-owned enterprises61
Blowin’ in the wind: Smog and suicidal ideation among school-age children59
Has the digital economy improved the consumption of poor and subsistence households?55
Short-term impact of climate change on labor market in China: Quantitative spatial analysis based on an oligopsony model49
Effects of export growth on the location choices of migrant workers: Evidence from China48
Export destinations and pollution reduction: Theory and evidence from Chinese enterprises48
Valuing research output: Evidence from a Chinese university47
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Perceived relative income, fairness, and the role of government: Evidence from a randomized survey experiment in China46
Intergenerational transmission of non-cognitive abilities: Evidence from the Wuhan Birth Cohort Studies45
Earning reduction caused by air pollution: Evidence from China44
Transnational digital infrastructure and scientific collaboration: Evidence from the Asia Africa Europe-1 (AAE-1) submarine cable44
The innovation of family firms in China: New evidence from the China employer-employee survey43
Intensive judicial oversight and corporate green innovations: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China43
Can higher education improve egalitarian gender role attitudes? Evidence from China43
Development zones and green innovation: Evidence from Chinese listed companies42
Local guarantees and SOE bond pricing in China41
Impact of fast internet access on employment: Evidence from a broadband expansion in China41
The income redistribution effect of social security in China41
Can data elements enhance urban innovation? Evidence from China40
Peer effects in rural housing demand: Evidence from China40
Enhancing China's image in Africa: The role of the Belt and Road Initiative40
Effects of temperature on mental health: Evidence and mechanisms from China40
How to encourage consumers' ongoing participation in physical exercise via feedback: Evidence from a longitudinal field experiment39
Air pollution and agricultural labor supply: Evidence from China39
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CO2 allocation and equity issues under China's carbon neutrality targets: Recent advances and a review38
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Is the People's Bank of China consistent in words and deeds?36
The effect of broadband internet on children's weight: Evidence from China36
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Long-term care insurance policy and the development of elderly care enterprises in China36
What you breathe makes you poor: The effect of air pollution on income35
China's growing but slowing inequality of household wealth, 2013–2018: A challenge to ‘common prosperity’?34
Patrilineality, fertility, and women's income: Evidence from family lineage in China34
Socioeconomic status and inequalities in early development of non-cognitive skills: Evidence from China33
A blessing and a curse: Identifying how knowledge complexity influences regional innovation efficiency in the presence of varying spatial externalities33
Who benefits from household energy transition? A cost-benefit analysis based on household survey data in China33
The impacts of superstition on risk preferences and beliefs: Evidence from the Chinese zodiac year32
The spatiotemporal evolution of COVID-19 in China and its impact on urban economic resilience32
Memory of famine: The persistent impact of famine experience on food waste behavior32
Risk education and tax aggressiveness: Evidence from China's auditor certification reform31
The effect of clean heating policy on individual health: Evidence from China31
Willingness-to-pay for early childhood development: A field experiment in Western China30
Higher education expansion and supply of teachers in China30
Capital flows under integration: Evidence from China's metropolitan area development planning29
Corporate key labs: Breakthrough or white elephant?29
Nonlinear relationship between the number of children and late-life cognition29
Judicial fairness perception and corporate innovation: Evidence from entrepreneur survey in China29
Bankruptcy resolution and corporate debt maturity28
Decision-making as cognitive household labor: Higher education expansion, women empowerment, and their intra-household decision-making responsibility28
Does education affect fertility timing? Evidence from Taiwan27
Self-employment and co-villager networks of internal migrants in China27
Optimal taxation, differential mortality, and endogenous human capital accumulation in China26
Bankruptcy judicial reform and corporate trade credit financing26
How digital finance shapes residents' health: Evidence from China26
Creating cities and food security challenge: Evidence from the city–county merger policy in China26
Integration of medical care and elderly care: Chinese experience and outcomes of older adults26
Search frictions in rental markets: Evidence from urban China25
The ladder of prosperity: An analysis of housing wealth accumulation across income groups in urban China25
The effectiveness and costs of nonpharmaceutical interventions for COVID-19 containment: A border discontinuous difference-in-difference approach25
Did the anti-avoidance rules curtail the profit shifting of foreign multinationals in China?24
Inside job, Chinese style: Suspicious use of public funds under fiscal pressure24
BigTech credit risk assessment for SMEs24
Climate risk and household stock market participation24
Endogenous price discrimination with asymmetric firms24
Maternity leave reform and women's labor supply: Evidence from China24
Digitalization of industries and labor mobility in China24
Childhood trauma among Chinese inmates23
Bubble into reallocation: How bubbles improve capital allocation in China23
Revisiting income inequality among households: New evidence from the Chinese Household Income Project23
Regulating strategic expense relabelling in R&D tax incentives by mandatory information disclosure22
Unintended negative impact of environmental regulation on public safety: Evidence from China22
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The nexus between digital finance and household consumption-based carbon emissions: Evidence from China22
The limits to growth in the AI-driven economy22
Higher education expansion and the rise of China in economics research22
Imports of key capital goods and quality upgrading: Evidence from China's import subsidy policy21
Does villager social capital hinder poverty targeting? Evidence from poverty-stricken county of Western China21
Action beyond the sky high: Capital structure adjustment speed of Chinese space firms21
Pursuing a brighter future: Impact of the Hukou reform on human capital investment in migrant children in China20
State-owned enterprise presence: Local spillovers20
Can reducing agricultural trade costs foster the transformation of the agrifood system? Evidence from China20
Market structure, resource allocation, and industry productivity growth: Firm-level evidence from China's steel industry20
Higher education reform in China: A comprehensive review of policymaking, implementation, and outcomes since 197820
Is care by grandparents or parents better for children's non-cognitive skills? Evidence on locus of control from China20
The impact of welfare design on consumption patterns of the poor: Evidence from the recent Dibao reform in rural China19
Growing pains for others: Using holidays to identify the pollution spillover between China and South Korea19
Does food recall strategy have a positive or negative effect on trust repair? Moderation analysis based on trust violation types and trust disposition19
Does winning a venture competition encourage entrepreneurial exploration? Evidence from China19
Industrialize with tax structure change: Agricultural tax abolition and local industrial growth in China19
Long-term consequences of fertility on elderly labor supply18
MULAN in the name: Causes and consequences of gendered Chinese names18
Relationship between health behavior compliance and prospect theory-based risk preferences during a pandemic of COVID-1918
Sectoral shocks, production linkages, and business cycles in China18
Export contraction and input switching in an aging China18
Attraction or repulsion? The creation of civilized cities and the resident intention of migrants18
Leveling the playing field: How intellectual property protection countervails foreign quality shocks18
Feed the children, free the women? Evidence from the China rural nutrition improvement program18
Carbon dioxide emission typology and policy implications: Evidence from machine learning18
Breaking segregation in classrooms: Peer composition and inter-group relationships17
Adapting to trade friction: The supply chain dynamics of Chinese suppliers17
Digital financial inclusion and subjective well-being – Evidence from China health and retirement longitudinal study17
Carbon dioxide fertilization, carbon neutrality, and food security17
Gender identity, preference, and relative income within households17
Exposure to socially influential peer parents: Evidence from cadre parents in China17
Driving restrictions, traffic speeds and carbon emissions: Evidence from high-frequency data17
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 preferences17
Economic geography of talent migration and agglomeration in China: A dual-driver framework17
Narrow framing and under-diversification: Empirical evidence from Chinese households17
Financial permeation and rural poverty reduction Nexus: Further insights from counties in China17
Gender difference in leaders framed with responsibility or authority: An experimental study17
Financial liberalization and capital allocation in China16
More than a new campus: University's spatial expansion, emerging knowledge cluster, and innovation growth16
The employment effects of VAT rebate efficiency: Evidence from SMEs in China16
Extreme heat and firms' robot adoption: Evidence from China16
The effect of soil pollution information disclosure on housing prices16
Political budget cycles, government size, and the allocation of public funds: Evidence from prefectures in China16
Early-life experience of land reform and entrepreneurship16
Moving out of agriculture: How trade liberalization affects agricultural productivity in China15
Top incomes and income polarisation in China15
Multi-province comparisons of digital financial inclusion performance in China: A group ranking method with preference analysis15
Narrative monetary policy expectation in China15
Family size, labor supply, and job prestige: Evidence from three decennial censuses in China15
Can robots reshape gender role attitudes?15
China's low-carbon technology trade: Facts and implications15
Price of going green: The employment effects of the environmental protection tax in China15
Marriage, gender, and premiums from cadre parents14
Working mothers' dilemma during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from China14
Key links in network interactions: Assessing route-specific travel restrictions in China during the Covid-19 pandemic14
Does digital finance affect energy consumption structure upgrading? Evidence from Chinese rural households14
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The role of information in nudging Chinese consumers from choosing sugar to alternative sweeteners14
The impact of COVID-19 on employment and income of vocational graduates in China: Evidence from surveys in January and July 202014
The political economy of COVID-19 in China14
Legal environment, contract intensity, and export quality14
BT-to-VAT reform and firm productivity: Evidence from a quasi-experiment in China14
Follow the gaze: How social attention shapes gendered trading choices14
Environmental regulation and manufacturing employment: Evidence from China's Eleventh Five-Year Plan14
Judicial institutions, local protection and market segmentation: Evidence from the establishment of interprovincial circuit tribunals in China13
College peer effects on learning behaviors in synchronous online courses13
How the COVID-19 pandemic affects job sentiments of rural teachers13
Husbands' wages and married women's labor supply in urban China13
The adoption and use of mobile payment: Determinants and relationship with bank access☆13
Environmental consequences of fuel price shocks in China13
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
Present bias, mental budget constraint, and the payday consumption cycle13
Birthplace diversity and private giving: Evidence from China12
The time-varying zone-like and asymmetric preference of central banks: Evidence from China12
The effect of education on health and health behaviors: Evidence from the college enrollment expansion in China12
Clan culture and risk-taking of Chinese enterprises12
Dual social identities, cross-cultural differences, and cooperation: Evidence from the One Country, Two Systems paradigm12
Fleshing out the olive? Observations on income polarization in China since 198112
Relative deprivation and health revisited: New evidence from middle-aged and older adults in rural China12
Do firms benefit from public information services: Evidence from a tax hotline program in China12
Cognitive ability, non-cognitive ability and occupational attainment in China12
Budget rollover and year-end spending in China: evidence from public procurement contracts12
Job destruction and creation: Labor reallocation entailed by the clean air action in China12
Heterogeneous peer effects under endogenous selection: An application to local and migrant children in elementary schools in Shanghai12
An experimental study of intra- and international cooperation: Chinese and American play in the Prisoner’s Dilemma Game12
Maturity mismatch and disinvestment as transmission mechanisms: Linking economic policy uncertainty to firm performance12
Who benefits from compulsory education? Evidence from the average and heterogeneous effects on migrant welfare in China12
Effects of wealth on the intensity of competition: Evidence from a lab experiment12
Tax Incentives, On-the-job Training, and Human Capital Accumulation: Evidence from China12
Does trade liberalization improve child health? Evidence from China11
Does historic preservation affect firms' output? Evidence from the awarding of the Historic City title in China11
Can military executives overcome difficulties in corporate value creation? ——Evidence from China11
From welfare enterprises to broad tax incentives: Effects of employment policy changes on disabled in China11
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Does the early bird catch the worm? Evidence and interpretation on the long-term impact of school entry age in China11
Does targeted poverty alleviation policy lead to happy life? Evidence from rural China11
China's skill-biased imports11
Efficiency or equity? The effect of an exogenous agricultural commercial shock: Evidence from Manchuria in the 1930s11
Customer digital transformation and enterprise risk-taking: Evidence from Chinese supply chains11
City size and the employment of female migrant workers in the service sector: Evidence from urban China11
Sibling spillovers in rural China: A story of sisters11
A measure of industrial clustering: Considering relatedness and scale11
When left-behind children become adults and parents: The long-term human capital consequences of parental absence in China11
Does export liberalization cause the agglomeration of pollution? Evidence from China11
The impact of household debt on the wealth distribution and inequality in China11
Pandemic and insurance purchase: How do people respond to unprecedented risk and uncertainty?11
Financial reforms and capital accumulation in developing economies: New data and evidence10
The distributive effects of online judicial auctions on corporate credit10
Birth order effects and parenting behaviors10
Income inequality and shadow education in China: From the perspective of social stratification10
Profiling Chinese entrepreneurs10
The social support returns to college education in China: Evidence from online medical crowdfunding10
Impacts of CEO-employee pay disparity on investor behavior and market dynamics: Evidence from laboratory asset markets10
Intergenerational preference transmission in physician families during the pandemic: Theory and evidence10
Through trials and hardships: Internal migration and locus of control among Chinese entrepreneurs10
Climbing the social ladder: Clans and intergenerational mobility in China10
Environmental regulation and outward foreign direct investment: Evidence from China10
Looking good by doing good: CEO attractiveness and corporate philanthropy10
Communist Party branch and labour rights: Evidence from Chinese entrepreneurs10
Good for bad: The heterogeneous effects of export controls on firms' ESG10
Geographical proximity to government and corporate litigation behavior: Evidence from China9
The green promise of digital finance: Exploring its effects and mechanisms on carbon reduction9
Digital finance development, financial mismatches, and corporate shadow banking activities9
Tax reduction, wage bargaining, and income equality: Evidence from China's SMEs9
How does non-financial firms' systemic risk affect their credit constraints? Evidence from China9
Urban fragmentation and innovation collaboration: Evidence from China9
Income inequality and happiness: Which inequalities matter in China?9
Urbanization or “Townization”? Measuring the evolution of urban systems in modern China9
The impact of the “Full Liberalization of Household Registration” policy on the free migration of rural labor9
Intensified law enforcement and firm innovation: Evidence from China's antitrust consolidation9
Transborder spillover effects of poverty on crime: Applying spatial econometric models to Chinese data9
The impact of health insurance on informal care: Evidence from China's urban-rural basic health insurance consolidation8
Does party organization construction improve chinese banks' stability? Evidence from a new textual index8
Assessing the role of economic globalization on energy efficiency: Evidence from a global perspective8
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The backfiring effects of monetary and gift incentives on Covid-19 vaccination intentions8
How does enterprise digitalization affect corporate carbon emission in China: A firm-level study8
How is Fintech reshaping the traditional financial markets? New evidence from InsurTech and insurance sectors in China8
From social networks to sustainable solutions: Unpacking the influence of social capital on green innovation8
Causal effect of aviation on air pollution: An instrumental variable from faraway COVID-19 restrictions in China8
Why do Chinese SMEs avoid formal employment? Political connections and unequal access to formalization benefits8
How trade drives fluctuations in macroeconomics in China – A multi-level dynamic factor approach8
Diet in China during substantial economic growth: Quality, inequality, trends, and determinants8
Recent progress in hukou reform and labor market integration in China: 1996–20228
The power of policy words: PBC communications and their impact on capital flows amidst global crises8
Born to be different: The role of local political leaders in poverty reduction in China8
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Trade in factor income and the US-China trade balance8
Depressed access to formal finance and the use of credit card debt in Chinese SMEs8
Internet use and fertility behavior among reproductive-age women in China8
Does cross-border investment improve mutual fund performance? Evidence from China7
New “useless education theory”: Highly educated parents' expectations for their children's education—Evidence from the one-child policy7
Air pollution, technology seeking and firms' cross-border M&A7
Urban population distribution in China: Evidence from internet population7
Neighbors in space: Satellite imagery and Chinese B-share discount7
Spillover effects of external economic shocks on African sovereign bonds7
China's aid-giving modalities: Impacts on sustainable growth in China-Africa trade7
Next stop innovation: Subway stations opening and spatial agglomeration of high-tech enterprises7
Buy now, pay later as liquidity insurance: Evidence from an early experiment in China7
University education, homeownership and housing wealth7
How air pollution affects innovation value in China urban area?7
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