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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
The hidden cost of corporate tax cuts: Evidence from worker health in China121
Research on contracting institutions and convergence104
Unexpected opportunity for girls: Earthquake, disaster relief and female education in China's poor counties98
Choosing tournament for children: Parenting style and information intervention97
Intergenerational transmission of non-cognitive abilities: Evidence from the Wuhan Birth Cohort Studies90
How corruption prevails: A laboratory experiment77
Earning reduction caused by air pollution: Evidence from China72
Dams, cropland productivity, and economic development in China68
Unveiling paradoxes of access: How higher education expansion shapes intergenerational educational mobility in China's admission quota system67
How does people’s liberation army related business closure affect the local economy?66
Editorial Board66
Publish or perish: Up-or-out rules and research performance of universities64
Export destinations and pollution reduction: Theory and evidence from Chinese enterprises61
Effects of export growth on the location choices of migrant workers: Evidence from China60
Editorial Board59
Toward consumer city: Subway network expansion and consumption industry growth55
The innovation of family firms in China: New evidence from the China employer-employee survey53
Perceived relative income, fairness, and the role of government: Evidence from a randomized survey experiment in China49
Can higher education improve egalitarian gender role attitudes? Evidence from China47
Valuing research output: Evidence from a Chinese university46
Broadband internet and income inequality among the floating population: Evidence from the “broadband China” strategy in China44
Enhancing China's image in Africa: The role of the Belt and Road Initiative44
Short-term impact of climate change on labor market in China: Quantitative spatial analysis based on an oligopsony model42
Has the digital economy improved the consumption of poor and subsistence households?41
Local guarantees and SOE bond pricing in China40
The income redistribution effect of social security in China40
Impact of fast internet access on employment: Evidence from a broadband expansion in China39
Can data elements enhance urban innovation? Evidence from China38
Intensive judicial oversight and corporate green innovations: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China38
CO2 allocation and equity issues under China's carbon neutrality targets: Recent advances and a review37
Development zones and green innovation: Evidence from Chinese listed companies37
The impacts of superstition on risk preferences and beliefs: Evidence from the Chinese zodiac year36
Quality of life in Chinese cities36
How to encourage consumers' ongoing participation in physical exercise via feedback: Evidence from a longitudinal field experiment36
Effects of temperature on mental health: Evidence and mechanisms from China35
A blessing and a curse: Identifying how knowledge complexity influences regional innovation efficiency in the presence of varying spatial externalities35
Memory of famine: The persistent impact of famine experience on food waste behavior34
Editorial34
What you breathe makes you poor: The effect of air pollution on income33
The effect of clean heating policy on individual health: Evidence from China33
Editorial Board33
Is the People's Bank of China consistent in words and deeds?32
Who benefits from household energy transition? A cost-benefit analysis based on household survey data in China32
Air pollution and agricultural labor supply: Evidence from China31
China's growing but slowing inequality of household wealth, 2013–2018: A challenge to ‘common prosperity’?31
The effect of broadband internet on children's weight: Evidence from China31
The spatiotemporal evolution of COVID-19 in China and its impact on urban economic resilience31
Unpacking the negative welfare effect of social media: Evidence from a large scale nationally representative time-use survey in China31
Peer effects in rural housing demand: Evidence from China31
Patrilineality, fertility, and women's income: Evidence from family lineage in China31
Decision-making as cognitive household labor: Higher education expansion, women empowerment, and their intra-household decision-making responsibility30
Capital flows under integration: Evidence from China's metropolitan area development planning30
Nonlinear relationship between the number of children and late-life cognition30
Creating cities and food security challenge: Evidence from the city–county merger policy in China29
Corporate key labs: Breakthrough or white elephant?29
Bankruptcy judicial reform and corporate trade credit financing28
The value-added tax reform and labor market outcomes: Firm-level evidence from China28
Willingness-to-pay for early childhood development: A field experiment in Western China28
How digital finance shapes residents' health: Evidence from China28
Editorial Board27
The effectiveness and costs of nonpharmaceutical interventions for COVID-19 containment: A border discontinuous difference-in-difference approach27
Higher education expansion and supply of teachers in China27
Higher education expansion and the rise of China in economics research27
Regulating strategic expense relabelling in R&D tax incentives by mandatory information disclosure27
Childhood trauma among Chinese inmates26
BigTech credit risk assessment for SMEs26
Optimal taxation, differential mortality, and endogenous human capital accumulation in China26
Can reducing agricultural trade costs foster the transformation of the agrifood system? Evidence from China26
Maternity leave reform and women's labor supply: Evidence from China25
Does villager social capital hinder poverty targeting? Evidence from poverty-stricken county of Western China25
Investigating the linkages between industrial policies and M&A dynamics: Evidence from China25
Did the anti-avoidance rules curtail the profit shifting of foreign multinationals in China?25
Endogenous price discrimination with asymmetric firms25
Imports of key capital goods and quality upgrading: Evidence from China's import subsidy policy24
Is care by grandparents or parents better for children's non-cognitive skills? Evidence on locus of control from China23
Search frictions in rental markets: Evidence from urban China23
Revisiting income inequality among households: New evidence from the Chinese Household Income Project22
Driving restrictions, traffic speeds and carbon emissions: Evidence from high-frequency data22
Export contraction and input switching in an aging China22
Higher education reform in China: A comprehensive review of policymaking, implementation, and outcomes since 197822
Bubble into reallocation: How bubbles improve capital allocation in 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
The ladder of prosperity: An analysis of housing wealth accumulation across income groups in urban China22
Market structure, resource allocation, and industry productivity growth: Firm-level evidence from China's steel industry22
Growing pains for others: Using holidays to identify the pollution spillover between China and South Korea22
Does winning a venture competition encourage entrepreneurial exploration? Evidence from China21
Industrialize with tax structure change: Agricultural tax abolition and local industrial growth in China21
Children's marriage and parental subjective well-being: Evidence from China20
Understanding the role of homeownership in wealth inequality: Evidence from urban China (1995–2018)20
Relationship between health behavior compliance and prospect theory-based risk preferences during a pandemic of COVID-1920
Digital financial inclusion and subjective well-being – Evidence from China health and retirement longitudinal study20
Leveling the playing field: How intellectual property protection countervails foreign quality shocks20
CEO experience and corporate financing decisions: Evidence from a natural experiment in China20
Sectoral shocks, production linkages, and business cycles in China20
Removing the “Hats of Poverty”: Effects of ending the national poverty county program on fiscal expenditures19
Long-term consequences of fertility on elderly labor supply19
Attraction or repulsion? The creation of civilized cities and the resident intention of migrants19
Feed the children, free the women? Evidence from the China rural nutrition improvement program19
Exposure to socially influential peer parents: Evidence from cadre parents in China19
Narrow framing and under-diversification: Empirical evidence from Chinese households18
Carbon dioxide emission typology and policy implications: Evidence from machine learning18
MULAN in the name: Causes and consequences of gendered Chinese names18
State-owned enterprise presence: Local spillovers18
The impact of welfare design on consumption patterns of the poor: Evidence from the recent Dibao reform in rural China18
Price of going green: The employment effects of the environmental protection tax in China17
How much did China's emergence as “the world's factory” contribute to its national income?17
Financial permeation and rural poverty reduction Nexus: Further insights from counties in China17
Top incomes and income polarisation in China17
Carbon dioxide fertilization, carbon neutrality, and food security17
Economic geography of talent migration and agglomeration in China: A dual-driver framework17
China's low-carbon technology trade: Facts and implications17
Gender difference in leaders framed with responsibility or authority: An experimental study17
Adapting to trade friction: The supply chain dynamics of Chinese suppliers17
Environmental regulation and manufacturing employment: Evidence from China's Eleventh Five-Year Plan16
Family size, labor supply, and job prestige: Evidence from three decennial censuses in China16
Early-life experience of land reform and entrepreneurship16
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
Gender identity, preference, and relative income within households16
The effect of soil pollution information disclosure on housing prices16
More than a new campus: University's spatial expansion, emerging knowledge cluster, and innovation growth16
BT-to-VAT reform and firm productivity: Evidence from a quasi-experiment in China16
The role of information in nudging Chinese consumers from choosing sugar to alternative sweeteners15
Can robots reshape gender role attitudes?15
Editorial Board15
The political economy of COVID-19 in China15
Follow the gaze: How social attention shapes gendered trading choices15
Extreme heat and firms' robot adoption: Evidence from China15
Key links in network interactions: Assessing route-specific travel restrictions in China during the Covid-19 pandemic15
Moving out of agriculture: How trade liberalization affects agricultural productivity in China15
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
The non-linear effect of daily weather on economic performance: Evidence from China14
Husbands' wages and married women's labor supply in urban China14
The impact of COVID-19 on employment and income of vocational graduates in China: Evidence from surveys in January and July 202014
Legal environment, contract intensity, and export quality14
The adoption and use of mobile payment: Determinants and relationship with bank access☆14
Soybean overweight shock (SOS): The impact of trade liberalization in China on overweight prevalence14
Marriage, gender, and premiums from cadre parents14
Does crop insurance reduce pesticide usage? Evidence from China14
Effects of cohort size on college premium: Evidence from China's higher education expansion13
Environmental consequences of fuel price shocks in China13
College peer effects on learning behaviors in synchronous online courses13
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
Corrigendum to “The political economy of COVID-19 in China” [China Economic Review, Volume 85, 2024, 102143]13
How the COVID-19 pandemic affects job sentiments of rural teachers13
The effect of education on health and health behaviors: Evidence from the college enrollment expansion in China13
Could government lead the way? Evaluation of China's patent subsidy policy on patent quality13
Present bias, mental budget constraint, and the payday consumption cycle13
Local political corruption and M&As13
An experimental study of intra- and international cooperation: Chinese and American play in the Prisoner’s Dilemma Game13
Editorial Board12
Job destruction and creation: Labor reallocation entailed by the clean air action in China12
Birthplace diversity and private giving: Evidence from China12
Sibling spillovers in rural China: A story of sisters12
Does trade liberalization improve child health? Evidence from China12
Fleshing out the olive? Observations on income polarization in China since 198112
Do firms benefit from public information services: Evidence from a tax hotline program in China12
Financial reforms and capital accumulation in developing economies: New data and evidence12
City size and the employment of female migrant workers in the service sector: Evidence from urban China12
Clan culture and risk-taking of Chinese enterprises12
Effects of wealth on the intensity of competition: Evidence from a lab experiment12
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
Can military executives overcome difficulties in corporate value creation? ——Evidence from China11
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 the early bird catch the worm? Evidence and interpretation on the long-term impact of school entry age in China11
Profiling Chinese entrepreneurs11
Does targeted poverty alleviation policy lead to happy life? Evidence from rural China11
Heterogeneous peer effects under endogenous selection: An application to local and migrant children in elementary schools in Shanghai11
The social support returns to college education in China: Evidence from online medical crowdfunding11
Does historic preservation affect firms' output? Evidence from the awarding of the Historic City title in China11
Tax Incentives, On-the-job Training, and Human Capital Accumulation: Evidence from China11
Born to be different: The role of local political leaders in poverty reduction in China10
When left-behind children become adults and parents: The long-term human capital consequences of parental absence in China10
Does export liberalization cause the agglomeration of pollution? Evidence from China10
Communist Party branch and labour rights: Evidence from Chinese entrepreneurs10
The impact of the “Full Liberalization of Household Registration” policy on the free migration of rural labor10
Urbanization or “Townization”? Measuring the evolution of urban systems in modern China10
Intergenerational preference transmission in physician families during the pandemic: Theory and evidence10
China's skill-biased imports10
Good for bad: The heterogeneous effects of export controls on firms' ESG10
Geographical proximity to government and corporate litigation behavior: Evidence from China10
Intensified law enforcement and firm innovation: Evidence from China's antitrust consolidation10
The green promise of digital finance: Exploring its effects and mechanisms on carbon reduction10
Looking good by doing good: CEO attractiveness and corporate philanthropy10
Transborder spillover effects of poverty on crime: Applying spatial econometric models to Chinese data10
Impacts of CEO-employee pay disparity on investor behavior and market dynamics: Evidence from laboratory asset markets10
Pandemic and insurance purchase: How do people respond to unprecedented risk and uncertainty?10
Income inequality and shadow education in China: From the perspective of social stratification10
Income inequality and happiness: Which inequalities matter in China?10
Urban fragmentation and innovation collaboration: Evidence from China10
Birth order effects and parenting behaviors9
How is Fintech reshaping the traditional financial markets? New evidence from InsurTech and insurance sectors in China9
How does enterprise digitalization affect corporate carbon emission in China: A firm-level study9
Editorial Board9
Assessing the role of economic globalization on energy efficiency: Evidence from a global perspective9
Editorial Board9
Trade in factor income and the US-China trade balance9
Diet in China during substantial economic growth: Quality, inequality, trends, and determinants9
An eye for an eye? The trade and price effects of China's retaliatory tariffs on U.S. exports9
How trade drives fluctuations in macroeconomics in China – A multi-level dynamic factor approach9
Editorial Board9
Internet use and fertility behavior among reproductive-age women in China9
Recent progress in hukou reform and labor market integration in China: 1996–20229
Depressed access to formal finance and the use of credit card debt in Chinese SMEs9
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
Causal effect of aviation on air pollution: An instrumental variable from faraway COVID-19 restrictions in China9
A screening perspective on experimental zones8
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
Contract enforcement efficiency and corporate vertical specialization: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment of “announcement of dishonest persons” in China8
Neighbors in space: Satellite imagery and Chinese B-share discount8
Lost in translation: Dialect distance, social assimilation and immigrant crimes in China8
Synergizing anti-corruption strategies: Group monitoring and endogenous crackdown – An experimental investigation8
Does polycentric spatial structure narrow the urban-rural income gap? – Evidence from six urban clusters in China8
Delayed tax rebates, cash flow, and corporate spending: A quasi-experiment from China8
Digital finance and investment of micro and small enterprises: Evidence from China8
Oil supply news shock and Chinese economy8
Student leadership experience and job accessibility: An experiment from China8
The driving forces of China's business cycles: Evidence from an estimated DSGE model with housing and banking8
Regulation-induced digitalization8
Assessing economic resilience in a manufacturing-based region through industrial restructuring with environmental thresholds: An updating framework8
Spillover effects of external economic shocks on African sovereign bonds8
Land price regulation and firms' global value chain position: Evidence from China7
Publish or perish? A tale of academic publications in Chinese universities7
Do teachers colleges prepare more effective teachers? Evidence from a top school district in China7
The power of wings: How air connections fuel cross-regional collaboration in China?7
New “useless education theory”: Highly educated parents' expectations for their children's education—Evidence from the one-child policy7
Traffic violations and economic preferences: Evidence from full-time drivers of a large transportation network company in China7
Early exposure to air pollution and cognitive development later in life: Evidence from China7
Cognitive ability, the Big Five, and rural-to-urban migration in China7
Electrification and economic growth: Evidence from china's rural primary electrification program7
Editorial Board7
China's domestic production networks7
‘One System, Two Shadows’: A local public finance perspective on China's shadow banking system7
China's aid-giving modalities: Impacts on sustainable growth in China-Africa trade7
Ownership concentration and financial policy of China's listed firms7
The effect living arrangements and intergenerational support have on the incidence of catastrophic health expenditure: A microeconomic analysis for China7
The environmental and economic consequences of environmental centralization: Evidence from China's environmental vertical management reform7
Climate Adaptation through Trade: Evidence and Mechanism from Heatwaves on Firms' Imports7
Monetary transmission and government investment in China7
Labor price distortion and export product markups: Evidence from China labor market7
The relaxation of birth control policies adversely affects women's income: Evidence from China's universal two-child policy7
Are more children better than one? Evidence from a lab experiment of decision making7
Can IP tribunals increase firm patent applications?—Empirical evidence from China7
Plant-level adjustments to imports and exports at the extensive margin7
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