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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Publish or perish: Up-or-out rules and research performance of universities155
Delegation and strategic collusion under antitrust policies: An experiment125
Broadband internet and income inequality among the floating population: Evidence from the “broadband China” strategy in China104
China's aid-giving modalities: Impacts on sustainable growth in China-Africa trade97
‘One System, Two Shadows’: A local public finance perspective on China's shadow banking system84
Earning reduction caused by air pollution: Evidence from China84
The hidden cost of corporate tax cuts: Evidence from worker health in China83
Estimation of industry-level basic digital capital services in China: A variable depreciation rate estimation method based on DSGE72
Enhancing China's image in Africa: The role of the Belt and Road Initiative66
Does a “bad apple” spoil the bunch? The impact of low-achieving students on non-cognitive outcomes62
Estimating the effect of the one-child policy on Chinese household savings - Evidence from an Oaxaca decomposition58
The relaxation of birth control policies adversely affects women's income: Evidence from China's universal two-child policy58
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Expansionary monetary policy and credit allocation: Evidence from China55
New “useless education theory”: Highly educated parents' expectations for their children's education—Evidence from the one-child policy54
Effectiveness and risk of initial carbon quota allocation principle under the uncertainty of the Chinese electricity market52
The impact of technology identification policy on firm innovation: Evidence from China51
Class struggle in a Schumpeterian economy51
Human capital in the financial sector and corporate debt maturity49
Too old to plan? Age identity and financial planning among the older population of China49
Does cross-border investment improve mutual fund performance? Evidence from China48
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University education, homeownership and housing wealth43
The non-linear effect of daily weather on economic performance: Evidence from China41
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Publishing and assessing the research of economists: Lessons from public health40
How does people’s liberation army related business closure affect the local economy?40
Editorial for the special issue on public policy and economic behavior: China and the world amidst a global pandemic39
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Bridging the gap: Assessing the effects of railway infrastructure investments in Northwest China34
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The effect of job displacement on labor market outcomes: Evidence from the Chinese state-owned enterprise reform33
Lights dim, exports down: Examining the trade effects of power shortages on Chinese manufacturing firms32
Follow the gaze: How social attention shapes gendered trading choices32
Risk attitudes across the life course: Evidence from China32
Information disclosure and public participation in environmental management: Evidence from the river chief system in China31
The impact of robots on unemployment duration: Evidence from the Chinese General Social Survey31
The hit of the novel coronavirus outbreak to China's economy28
Effects of cohort size on college premium: Evidence from China's higher education expansion28
Key links in network interactions: Assessing route-specific travel restrictions in China during the Covid-19 pandemic28
Entrepreneurs' work experiences and the growth of Chinese private firms during the transition towards a market economy28
Natural disasters and high-stakes exam performance: Evidence from the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake28
The role of information in nudging Chinese consumers from choosing sugar to alternative sweeteners27
The impact of COVID-19 on employment and income of vocational graduates in China: Evidence from surveys in January and July 202027
Spillover effects of external economic shocks on African sovereign bonds27
Uniform agricultural tax abolition and differential household labor supply: Evidence from China's urban household survey27
The innovation of family firms in China: New evidence from the China employer-employee survey27
Are more children better than one? Evidence from a lab experiment of decision making26
Job changing frequency and experimental decisions: A field study of migrant workers in the manufacturing industry26
Earnings mobility during labor market reforms in urban China26
Valuing research output: Evidence from a Chinese university26
Choosing tournament for children: Parenting style and information intervention26
Intergenerational transmission of non-cognitive abilities: Evidence from the Wuhan Birth Cohort Studies25
Sustainable development in China? A nonparametric decomposition of economic growth25
Neighbors in space: Satellite imagery and Chinese B-share discount25
Place-based polices and e-commerce development in rural China25
Marriage, gender, and premiums from cadre parents24
Innovation Like China: Evidence from Chinese Local Officials' Promotions24
Integration in the global value chain, structural change, and the widening gender employment gap in China24
Carbon pricing, carbon equity, and the RCEP framework23
Air pollution and procyclical mortality: Evidence from China23
How corruption prevails: A laboratory experiment23
Asymmetric corporate tax compliance: Evidence from a tax reform in China23
Unexpected opportunity for girls: Earthquake, disaster relief and female education in China's poor counties22
Buy now, pay later as liquidity insurance: Evidence from an early experiment in China22
Environmental regulation, firm heterogeneity, and intra-industry reallocation22
Research on contracting institutions and convergence22
Pray, vote, and money: The double-edged sword effect of religions on rural political participation in China22
The effect of political connections on the distribution of firm performance21
Tax competition among local governments: Evidence from the spillovers of location-based tax incentives in China21
What is the role of government trust in a firm's R&D investments? Evidence from SMEs21
Short-term loans and Firms' high-quality innovation: Evidence from the access to patent-backed loans in China21
Perceived relative income, fairness, and the role of government: Evidence from a randomized survey experiment in China21
The political economy of COVID-19 in China21
Dams, cropland productivity, and economic development in China21
How motivations and costs affect financial knowledge learning? Evidence from a large-scale FinTech experiment in China20
How does broadband internet affect firm-level labor misallocation: The role of information frictions20
Can data elements enhance urban innovation? Evidence from China20
Unveiling paradoxes of access: How higher education expansion shapes intergenerational educational mobility in China's admission quota system20
Information effects of high-speed rail: Evidence from patent citations in China20
Short-term impact of climate change on labor market in China: Quantitative spatial analysis based on an oligopsony model20
Has the digital economy improved the consumption of poor and subsistence households?20
Urban population distribution in China: Evidence from internet population19
Broadband infrastructure and digital financial inclusion in rural China19
Working mothers' dilemma during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from China19
Big data pricing in marketplace lending and price discrimination against repeat borrowers: Evidence from China19
The adoption and use of mobile payment: Determinants and relationship with bank access☆18
Export expansion and intergenerational education mobility: Evidence from China18
Randomized inspection and firm's government subsidies: A natural experiment in China18
Husbands' wages and married women's labor supply in urban China18
The impact of tax enforcement on corporate energy efficiency: Evidence from a tax collection reform in China18
The income redistribution effect of social security in China18
Environmental co-benefits of climate mitigation: Evidence from clean development mechanism projects in China17
How does climate regulatory risk influence labor employment decisions? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment17
Impact of fast internet access on employment: Evidence from a broadband expansion in China16
Ownership concentration and financial policy of China's listed firms16
Judicial institutions, local protection and market segmentation: Evidence from the establishment of interprovincial circuit tribunals in China16
Development zones and green innovation: Evidence from Chinese listed companies16
The impact of COVID-19 on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs): Evidence from two-wave phone surveys in China16
Working hours and job satisfaction in China: A threshold analysis16
Fintech, technological innovation and regional economic growth: Theoretical modeling and empirical evidence16
Hukou status, housing tenure choice and wealth accumulation in urban China16
Digital financial inclusion and middle-income group vulnerability alleviation: Evidence from China16
Digital product imports and export product quality: Firm-level evidence from China16
Housing wealth changes and entrepreneurship: Evidence from urban China15
Speculation, climate or pandemic: Who drives the Chinese herbal medicine bubbles?15
Soybean overweight shock (SOS): The impact of trade liberalization in China on overweight prevalence15
Servicification of investment and structural transformation: The case of China15
Life is too short to be small: An experiment on mortality salience and prosocial behavior15
Intensive judicial oversight and corporate green innovations: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China14
Big tech credit score and default risk ——Evidence from loan-level data of a representative microfinance company in China14
Could government lead the way? Evaluation of China's patent subsidy policy on patent quality14
Does crop insurance reduce pesticide usage? Evidence from China14
Social capital meets guanxi: Social networks and income inequality in China14
Anti-dumping duties, export price adjustment, and firm ownership: Evidence from Chinese aluminum exporters14
Local guarantees and SOE bond pricing in China14
Can higher education improve egalitarian gender role attitudes? Evidence from China14
Legal environment, contract intensity, and export quality14
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Do men and women discriminate against women for the same reason? Evidence from China13
How to encourage consumers' ongoing participation in physical exercise via feedback: Evidence from a longitudinal field experiment13
Online markets, offline happiness: E-commerce development and subjective well-being in rural China13
Birthplace diversity and private giving: Evidence from China13
Why has China invested heavily in countries with weak market environments? A new explanation and implications for China-Africa economic cooperation13
Dragon year superstition, birth timing, and neonatal health outcomes13
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Economic independence and living arrangements of older women with agricultural Hukou in China12
Trade sanctions and Global Value Chains: A China–South Africa perspective12
Does tax deduction relax financing constraints? Evidence from China's value-added tax reform12
The effect living arrangements and intergenerational support have on the incidence of catastrophic health expenditure: A microeconomic analysis for China12
The Belt, the Road, and the carbon emissions in China12
Government venture capital funds: Balancing the impact of social and financial goals on startups12
Present bias, mental budget constraint, and the payday consumption cycle12
The productivity and political radicalism of the Chinese cooperative movement12
Do teachers colleges prepare more effective teachers? Evidence from a top school district in China12
The deterrent effect of environmental judicature on firms' pollution emissions: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China12
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Accents, group identity, and trust behaviors: Evidence from Singapore12
Fiscal decentralization and food production: Evidence from Province-Managing-County reform in China12
Can IP tribunals increase firm patent applications?—Empirical evidence from China12
China's growing but slowing inequality of household wealth, 2013–2018: A challenge to ‘common prosperity’?11
Cognitive ability, the Big Five, and rural-to-urban migration in China11
Is the People's Bank of China consistent in words and deeds?11
Traffic violations and economic preferences: Evidence from full-time drivers of a large transportation network company in China11
The impacts of China's drug price zero-markup policy on medical expenditures and health outcomes11
An experimental study of intra- and international cooperation: Chinese and American play in the Prisoner’s Dilemma Game11
Environmental consequences of fuel price shocks in China11
The impacts of superstition on risk preferences and beliefs: Evidence from the Chinese zodiac year11
A lack of nostalgia: Hometown favoritism and allocation of intergovernmental transfer in China11
Peer effects in rural housing demand: Evidence from China11
Resource curse on innovation: A perspective on local mining industry monopolies in resource-based cities in China10
China's domestic production networks10
Who benefits from household energy transition? A cost-benefit analysis based on household survey data in China10
The effect of education on health and health behaviors: Evidence from the college enrollment expansion in China10
Patrilineality, fertility, and women's income: Evidence from family lineage in China10
Are export tax rebates patronage for Chinese firms? An analysis of productivity10
Inputs, networks and quality-upgrading: Evidence from China in India10
Do firms benefit from public information services: Evidence from a tax hotline program in China10
Air pollution and agricultural labor supply: Evidence from China10
Labor price distortion and export product markups: Evidence from China labor market10
Relative deprivation and health revisited: New evidence from middle-aged and older adults in rural China10
“Selective two-child” policy and household resource allocation10
Improved statistical consistency: The effect of data revisions on the energy use gap between China and its provinces10
The effect of teacher's concurrent administrative position on students' academic outcomes: Evidence and mechanisms10
The effects of monthly minimum wages on the labor market10
How the COVID-19 pandemic affects job sentiments of rural teachers9
CO2 allocation and equity issues under China's carbon neutrality targets: Recent advances and a review9
Does exporting to China spur firm innovation activities in developing countries?9
Unpacking the negative welfare effect of social media: Evidence from a large scale nationally representative time-use survey in China9
Climate Adaptation through Trade: Evidence and Mechanism from Heatwaves on Firms' Imports9
Parents' early experience and children's years of schooling: The long-term impact of son preference9
Early exposure to air pollution and cognitive development later in life: Evidence from China9
Spatial disparity of skill premium in China: The role of financial intermediation development9
Monetary transmission and government investment in China9
Land price regulation and firms' global value chain position: Evidence from China9
The environmental and economic consequences of environmental centralization: Evidence from China's environmental vertical management reform9
Assessing inequality in the school closure response to COVID-199
Corrigendum to “The political economy of COVID-19 in China” [China Economic Review, Volume 85, 2024, 102143]9
College peer effects on learning behaviors in synchronous online courses9
Effect of ethnic stereotype threat on academic performance: Experimental evidence from rural China9
Local political corruption and M&As9
Internal labor markets with two types of promotion and two tiers of salary: theory and evidence from China9
What you breathe makes you poor: The effect of air pollution on income9
Job destruction and creation: Labor reallocation entailed by the clean air action in China9
On the time-varying impact of China's bilateral political relations on its trading partners: “Doux commerce” or “trade follows the flag”?8
Publish or perish? A tale of academic publications in Chinese universities8
Memory of famine: The persistent impact of famine experience on food waste behavior8
The informal economy at times of COVID-19 pandemic8
Income inequality and educational expenditures on children: Evidence from the China Family Panel Studies8
Fleshing out the olive? Observations on income polarization in China since 19818
Clan culture and risk-taking of Chinese enterprises8
How services liberalization shapes functional specialization in developing countries?8
Electrification and economic growth: Evidence from china's rural primary electrification program8
The impact of commercial bank branch expansion on energy efficiency: Micro evidence from China8
The effects of exposure to high temperatures during pregnancy on adolescent mental health: Evidence from China8
The path towards sustainable finance: Venture capital and air pollution in China8
The effect of clean heating policy on individual health: Evidence from China8
Measuring digitalization effects in China: A global value chain perspective8
The impact of administrative boundaries on foreign direct investments in China's Yangtze River Delta region8
Monetary stimulus policy in China: The bank credit channel8
The consequences of health shocks on households: Evidence from China8
Effects of temperature on mental health: Evidence and mechanisms from China8
One country, many industries: Heterogeneity of Chinese OFDI motivations at meso level8
Overeducation, major mismatch, and return to higher education tiers: Evidence from novel data source of a major online recruitment platform in China8
Monetary policy transmission and policy coordination in China8
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What makes you entrepreneurial? Using machine learning to investigate the determinants of entrepreneurship in China7
Product line competition: An empirical analysis of the Chinese airline industry7
Does the early bird catch the worm? Evidence and interpretation on the long-term impact of school entry age in China7
Name length and labor market performance7
A paradigmatic change is needed for understanding the real market7
Investment incentives and the relative demand for skilled labor: Evidence from accelerated depreciation policies in China7
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The spatiotemporal evolution of COVID-19 in China and its impact on urban economic resilience7
A closer look at Chinese housing market: Measuring intra-city submarket connectedness in Shanghai and Guangzhou7
Macroeconomic policy-induced wealth effects on Chinese foreign housing investments7
Role of professionalism in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: Does a public health or medical background help?7
Financial reforms and capital accumulation in developing economies: New data and evidence7
Rural centralized residences and the health of the acting heads of rural households: The case of China7
China economic review 30 years7
College education and internal migration in China7
Exporting firms’ factor and product-quality adjustments in response to employment protection legislation: Evidence from China7
Classmates and friends matter! Peer effects on cognitive ability formation7
Sibling spillovers in rural China: A story of sisters7
Willingness-to-pay for early childhood development: A field experiment in Western China7
Pandemic and insurance purchase: How do people respond to unprecedented risk and uncertainty?7
Coming out of the pandemic: What have we learned and what should we learn?7
The effect of family size on parents' labor supply and occupational prestige: Evidence from Taiwan and Mainland China7
Fertility responses to the relaxation of migration restrictions: Evidence from the Hukou reform in China7
Quality of life in Chinese cities7
Motivation of Chinese commercial banks to issue green bonds: Financing costs or regulatory arbitrage?7
The value of higher education to entrepreneurial performance: Evidence from higher education expansion in China6
Can military executives overcome difficulties in corporate value creation? ——Evidence from China6
City civilization, employment creation and talent agglomeration: Empirical evidence from “National Civilized City” policy in China6
Tax Incentives, On-the-job Training, and Human Capital Accumulation: Evidence from China6
The effect of mandatory CSR disclosure on stock liquidity6
Belt and road: The China dream?6
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Corrigendum to ‘What is the role of government trust in a firm's R&D investments? Evidence from SMEs’ [China Economic Review, volume 79 (2023), 101,968].6
Travel to breathe the fresh air? Big data evidence on the short-term migration effect of air pollution from China6
Fiscal stress and the formation of zombie firms: Evidence from China6
How does school district adjustment affect housing prices: An empirical investigation from Hangzhou, China6
Creating cities and food security challenge: Evidence from the city–county merger policy in China6
Corporate key labs: Breakthrough or white elephant?6
Riding out the COVID-19 storm: How government policies affect SMEs in China6
Entrepreneurial risk shocks and financial acceleration asymmetry in a two-country DSGE model6
Environmental regulation and outward foreign direct investment: Evidence from China6
COVID-19, firm exposure, and firm value: A tale of two lockdowns6
Import competition and the gender gap in labor force participation: Evidence from China5
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