China Economic Review

Papers
(The TQCC of China Economic Review is 12. 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
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
The innovation of family firms in China: New evidence from the China employer-employee survey64
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
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
Toward consumer city: Subway network expansion and consumption industry growth59
Editorial Board53
Valuing research output: Evidence from a Chinese university52
The income redistribution effect of social security in China49
Has the digital economy improved the consumption of poor and subsistence households?45
Broadband internet and income inequality among the floating population: Evidence from the “broadband China” strategy in China45
Enhancing China's image in Africa: The role of the Belt and Road Initiative44
Can data elements enhance urban innovation? Evidence from China44
Can higher education improve egalitarian gender role attitudes? Evidence from China40
Development zones and green innovation: Evidence from Chinese listed companies39
Intensive judicial oversight and corporate green innovations: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China39
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
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
Who benefits from household energy transition? A cost-benefit analysis based on household survey data in China34
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
Is the People's Bank of China consistent in words and deeds?33
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
Unpacking the negative welfare effect of social media: Evidence from a large scale nationally representative time-use survey in China31
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
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
Corporate key labs: Breakthrough or white elephant?29
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
Self-employment and co-villager networks of internal migrants in China28
Willingness-to-pay for early childhood development: A field experiment in Western 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
Digitalization of industries and labor mobility in China25
Endogenous price discrimination with asymmetric firms25
Maternity leave reform and women's labor supply: Evidence from China25
Bubble into reallocation: How bubbles improve capital allocation in China25
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
BigTech credit risk assessment for SMEs23
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
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
State-owned enterprise presence: Local spillovers21
Export contraction and input switching in an aging China21
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Early-life experience of land reform and entrepreneurship17
Adapting to trade friction: The supply chain dynamics of Chinese suppliers17
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
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
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
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 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
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
Local political corruption and M&As13
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
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
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
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