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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
How does people’s liberation army related business closure affect the local economy?181
Effects of export growth on the location choices of migrant workers: Evidence from China150
Editorial Board149
Intergenerational transmission of non-cognitive abilities: Evidence from the Wuhan Birth Cohort Studies122
Earning reduction caused by air pollution: Evidence from China109
Blowin’ in the wind: Smog and suicidal ideation among school-age children88
Valuing research output: Evidence from a Chinese university83
Export destinations and pollution reduction: Theory and evidence from Chinese enterprises81
Choosing tournament for children: Parenting style and information intervention80
The hysteresis effects of investment shocks in China79
Dams, cropland productivity, and economic development in China72
Toward consumer city: Subway network expansion and consumption industry growth64
The hidden cost of corporate tax cuts: Evidence from worker health in China59
Can green mergers and acquisitions drive firms' transition to green exports? Evidence from China's manufacturing sector58
Publish or perish: Up-or-out rules and research performance of universities56
Transnational digital infrastructure and scientific collaboration: Evidence from the Asia Africa Europe-1 (AAE-1) submarine cable56
Economic well-being and farming sustainability when trade shocks occur: Insights from agricultural households56
Unveiling paradoxes of access: How higher education expansion shapes intergenerational educational mobility in China's admission quota system55
Local guarantees and SOE bond pricing in China54
The impact of bank internationalization on the efficiency of Chinese outward foreign direct investment52
How corruption prevails: A laboratory experiment52
Can data elements enhance urban innovation? Evidence from China50
Equity diversification as a catalyst for Artificial Intelligence innovation: Evidence from Chinese state-owned enterprises50
The income redistribution effect of social security in China50
Intensive judicial oversight and corporate green innovations: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China50
Research on contracting institutions and convergence49
Examining year-end spending surge and ratchet effect: Evidence from bunching estimation and zero-based budget reform in China48
Development zones and green innovation: Evidence from Chinese listed companies48
Broadband internet and income inequality among the floating population: Evidence from the “broadband China” strategy in China46
Can higher education improve egalitarian gender role attitudes? Evidence from China45
Impact of fast internet access on employment: Evidence from a broadband expansion in China45
Short-term impact of climate change on labor market in China: Quantitative spatial analysis based on an oligopsony model44
Enhancing China's image in Africa: The role of the Belt and Road Initiative44
Has the digital economy improved the consumption of poor and subsistence households?44
The effect of broadband internet on children's weight: Evidence from China43
How to encourage consumers' ongoing participation in physical exercise via feedback: Evidence from a longitudinal field experiment42
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Patrilineality, fertility, and women's income: Evidence from family lineage in China41
Is the People's Bank of China consistent in words and deeds?40
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The impacts of superstition on risk preferences and beliefs: Evidence from the Chinese zodiac year38
Air pollution and agricultural labor supply: Evidence from China37
Long-term care insurance policy and the development of elderly care enterprises in China37
CO2 allocation and equity issues under China's carbon neutrality targets: Recent advances and a review36
Who benefits from household energy transition? A cost-benefit analysis based on household survey data in China36
China's growing but slowing inequality of household wealth, 2013–2018: A challenge to ‘common prosperity’?36
The effect of clean heating policy on individual health: Evidence from China35
The spatiotemporal evolution of COVID-19 in China and its impact on urban economic resilience35
What you breathe makes you poor: The effect of air pollution on income35
A blessing and a curse: Identifying how knowledge complexity influences regional innovation efficiency in the presence of varying spatial externalities34
Effects of temperature on mental health: Evidence and mechanisms from China33
Risk education and tax aggressiveness: Evidence from China's auditor certification reform33
Socioeconomic status and inequalities in early development of non-cognitive skills: Evidence from China33
Willingness-to-pay for early childhood development: A field experiment in Western China32
Bankruptcy resolution and corporate debt maturity32
Corporate key labs: Breakthrough or white elephant?32
Nonlinear relationship between the number of children and late-life cognition32
Judicial fairness perception and corporate innovation: Evidence from entrepreneur survey in China31
Does education affect fertility timing? Evidence from Taiwan31
Creating cities and food security challenge: Evidence from the city–county merger policy in China31
Decision-making as cognitive household labor: Higher education expansion, women empowerment, and their intra-household decision-making responsibility30
Self-employment and co-villager networks of internal migrants in China30
How digital finance shapes residents' health: Evidence from China30
Bankruptcy judicial reform and corporate trade credit financing30
Integration of medical care and elderly care: Chinese experience and outcomes of older adults30
Did the anti-avoidance rules curtail the profit shifting of foreign multinationals in China?29
Capital flows under integration: Evidence from China's metropolitan area development planning29
Editorial Board28
Endogenous price discrimination with asymmetric firms27
Unintended negative impact of environmental regulation on public safety: Evidence from China27
Revisiting income inequality among households: New evidence from the Chinese Household Income Project27
Action beyond the sky high: Capital structure adjustment speed of Chinese space firms27
The ladder of prosperity: An analysis of housing wealth accumulation across income groups in urban China26
Optimal taxation, differential mortality, and endogenous human capital accumulation in China26
The effectiveness and costs of nonpharmaceutical interventions for COVID-19 containment: A border discontinuous difference-in-difference approach26
Regulating strategic expense relabelling in R&D tax incentives by mandatory information disclosure26
Can reducing agricultural trade costs foster the transformation of the agrifood system? Evidence from China25
From farm to firewall: E-commerce and the growth of new occupational opportunities25
Higher education expansion and the rise of China in economics research25
Search frictions in rental markets: Evidence from urban China25
The nexus between digital finance and household consumption-based carbon emissions: Evidence from China25
The limits to growth in the AI-driven economy25
Imports of key capital goods and quality upgrading: Evidence from China's import subsidy policy24
Inside job, Chinese style: Suspicious use of public funds under fiscal pressure24
Market structure, resource allocation, and industry productivity growth: Firm-level evidence from China's steel industry24
Political gestures or tightening mandates? New evidence for campaign-style environmental intervention in China24
Digital transformation and climate transition risk management: Evidence from Chinese listed firms23
Climate risk and household stock market participation23
Does winning a venture competition encourage entrepreneurial exploration? Evidence from China22
BigTech credit risk assessment for SMEs22
Pursuing a brighter future: Impact of the Hukou reform on human capital investment in migrant children in China22
Maternity leave reform and women's labor supply: Evidence from China22
Industrialize with tax structure change: Agricultural tax abolition and local industrial growth in China22
Digitalization of industries and labor mobility in China22
Bubble into reallocation: How bubbles improve capital allocation in China22
Relationship between health behavior compliance and prospect theory-based risk preferences during a pandemic of COVID-1921
Narrow framing and under-diversification: Empirical evidence from Chinese households21
Feed the children, free the women? Evidence from the China rural nutrition improvement program21
Does food recall strategy have a positive or negative effect on trust repair? Moderation analysis based on trust violation types and trust disposition21
Growing pains for others: Using holidays to identify the pollution spillover between China and South Korea21
Export contraction and input switching in an aging China21
Labor ideology under technological shocks: The impact of industrial robot adoption on work values21
State-owned enterprise presence: Local spillovers21
Leveling the playing field: How intellectual property protection countervails foreign quality shocks21
Attraction or repulsion? The creation of civilized cities and the resident intention of migrants21
Economic geography of talent migration and agglomeration in China: A dual-driver framework20
Carbon dioxide emission typology and policy implications: Evidence from machine learning20
Financial permeation and rural poverty reduction Nexus: Further insights from counties in China20
Beauty and the business: Facial attractiveness and entrepreneurship20
MULAN in the name: Causes and consequences of gendered Chinese names20
Driving restrictions, traffic speeds and carbon emissions: Evidence from high-frequency data20
Sectoral shocks, production linkages, and business cycles in China20
The impact of welfare design on consumption patterns of the poor: Evidence from the recent Dibao reform in rural China20
Exposure to socially influential peer parents: Evidence from cadre parents in China19
Environmental regulation and indirect innovation effects along supply chain: Evidence from China's water pollution prevention and control action plan19
Digital financial inclusion and subjective well-being – Evidence from China health and retirement longitudinal study19
Adapting to trade friction: The supply chain dynamics of Chinese suppliers19
Long-term consequences of fertility on elderly labor supply19
How do housing rents affect migrants' health? Evidence from the China migrants dynamic survey19
The employment effects of VAT rebate efficiency: Evidence from SMEs in China18
Government linked companies (GLCs) and public private partnership (PPP) in the water sector in China: Political connection, utility performance and service quality18
Breaking segregation in classrooms: Peer composition and inter-group relationships18
How the U.S. Entity List affects firm breakthrough innovation: A perspective on knowledge depth and breadth18
Financial liberalization and capital allocation in China18
Carbon dioxide fertilization, carbon neutrality, and food security18
The effect of soil pollution information disclosure on housing prices18
Political budget cycles, government size, and the allocation of public funds: Evidence from prefectures in China18
Top incomes and income polarisation in China18
Multi-province comparisons of digital financial inclusion performance in China: A group ranking method with preference analysis17
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
Can robots reshape gender role attitudes?17
Early-life experience of land reform and entrepreneurship17
Extreme heat and firms' robot adoption: Evidence from China17
Gender difference in leaders framed with responsibility or authority: An experimental study17
Family size, labor supply, and job prestige: Evidence from three decennial censuses in China17
Unity for longevity: Corporate collaboration culture and global innovation network integration16
China's low-carbon technology trade: Facts and implications16
Digital tax administration and conglomerates capital structure adjustment driven by tax planning16
Narrative monetary policy expectation in China16
Environmental regulation and manufacturing employment: Evidence from China's Eleventh Five-Year Plan16
Price of going green: The employment effects of the environmental protection tax in China16
Moving out of agriculture: How trade liberalization affects agricultural productivity in China16
Soybean overweight shock (SOS): The impact of trade liberalization in China on overweight prevalence15
Follow the gaze: How social attention shapes gendered trading choices15
Legal environment, contract intensity, and export quality15
Husbands' wages and married women's labor supply in urban China15
China and the world economy: Pathways of resilience, innovation, and transformation15
Marriage, gender, and premiums from cadre parents15
More than a new campus: University's spatial expansion, emerging knowledge cluster, and innovation growth15
Editorial Board15
The role of information in nudging Chinese consumers from choosing sugar to alternative sweeteners15
Judicial institutions, local protection and market segmentation: Evidence from the establishment of interprovincial circuit tribunals in China14
The adoption and use of mobile payment: Determinants and relationship with bank access☆14
Present bias, mental budget constraint, and the payday consumption cycle14
Cognitive ability, non-cognitive ability and occupational attainment in China14
Working mothers' dilemma during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from China14
The impact of COVID-19 on employment and income of vocational graduates in China: Evidence from surveys in January and July 202014
College peer effects on learning behaviors in synchronous online courses14
The political economy of COVID-19 in China14
Does digital finance affect energy consumption structure upgrading? Evidence from Chinese rural households14
Fleshing out the olive? Observations on income polarization in China since 198114
Birthplace diversity and private giving: Evidence from China14
Dual social identities, cross-cultural differences, and cooperation: Evidence from the One Country, Two Systems paradigm13
Budget rollover and year-end spending in China: evidence from public procurement contracts13
Job destruction and creation: Labor reallocation entailed by the clean air action in China13
How polluting enterprises respond to Pigovian tax: Evidence from China's environmental protection tax law13
Maturity mismatch and disinvestment as transmission mechanisms: Linking economic policy uncertainty to firm performance13
An experimental study of intra- and international cooperation: Chinese and American play in the Prisoner’s Dilemma Game13
How does import expansion affect migrant labor wages: Evidence from China13
Reap more than sow: Experimental evidence of spillover effects from free eyeglass distribution among rural students in China13
Relative deprivation and health revisited: New evidence from middle-aged and older adults in rural China13
Environmental consequences of fuel price shocks in China13
Corrigendum to “The political economy of COVID-19 in China” [China Economic Review, Volume 85, 2024, 102143]13
Do firms benefit from public information services: Evidence from a tax hotline program in China13
Who benefits from compulsory education? Evidence from the average and heterogeneous effects on migrant welfare in China13
Effects of wealth on the intensity of competition: Evidence from a lab experiment13
Extreme heat and household consumption: Evidence from China13
The time-varying zone-like and asymmetric preference of central banks: Evidence from China13
Information, pollution, and cognition: The impact of air pollution disclosure on aging minds13
Financial reforms and capital accumulation in developing economies: New data and evidence12
Profiling Chinese entrepreneurs12
Sibling spillovers in rural China: A story of sisters12
Heterogeneous peer effects under endogenous selection: An application to local and migrant children in elementary schools in Shanghai12
Editorial Board12
The distributive effects of online judicial auctions on corporate credit12
From welfare enterprises to broad tax incentives: Effects of employment policy changes on disabled in China12
The impact of household debt on the wealth distribution and inequality in China12
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The social support returns to college education in China: Evidence from online medical crowdfunding11
Climbing the social ladder: Clans and intergenerational mobility in China11
Does historic preservation affect firms' output? Evidence from the awarding of the Historic City title in China11
Does trade liberalization improve child health? Evidence from China11
A measure of industrial clustering: Considering relatedness and scale11
Does export liberalization cause the agglomeration of pollution? Evidence from China11
Does the early bird catch the worm? Evidence and interpretation on the long-term impact of school entry age in China11
Efficiency or equity? The effect of an exogenous agricultural commercial shock: Evidence from Manchuria in the 1930s11
City size and the employment of female migrant workers in the service sector: Evidence from urban China11
Can military executives overcome difficulties in corporate value creation? ——Evidence from China11
Environmental regulation and outward foreign direct investment: Evidence from China11
How does non-financial firms' systemic risk affect their credit constraints? Evidence from China10
Birth order effects and parenting behaviors10
Transborder spillover effects of poverty on crime: Applying spatial econometric models to Chinese data10
Pandemic and insurance purchase: How do people respond to unprecedented risk and uncertainty?10
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
Information-based resilience: Credit line disclosure as strategic response to natural disasters10
Depth, trade, and welfare analysis of the CPTPP and RCEP: Does deepening RCEP to CPTPP standards make a difference?10
Tax reduction, wage bargaining, and income equality: Evidence from China's SMEs10
Customer digital transformation and enterprise risk-taking: Evidence from Chinese supply chains10
China's skill-biased imports10
Through trials and hardships: Internal migration and locus of control among Chinese entrepreneurs10
Looking good by doing good: CEO attractiveness and corporate philanthropy10
Urbanization or “Townization”? Measuring the evolution of urban systems in modern China10
When left-behind children become adults and parents: The long-term human capital consequences of parental absence in China10
Does targeted poverty alleviation policy lead to happy life? Evidence from rural China10
Why do Chinese SMEs avoid formal employment? Political connections and unequal access to formalization benefits10
Impacts of CEO-employee pay disparity on investor behavior and market dynamics: Evidence from laboratory asset markets9
Transparency matters: Public vs. non-public use of the counter-cyclical factor and renminbi exchange rate volatility9
Income inequality and shadow education in China: From the perspective of social stratification9
The green promise of digital finance: Exploring its effects and mechanisms on carbon reduction9
FDI In, SOE Out: Understanding the reallocation effects of FDI liberalization in China9
Does party organization construction improve chinese banks' stability? Evidence from a new textual index9
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Born to be different: The role of local political leaders in poverty reduction in China9
The impact of the “Full Liberalization of Household Registration” policy on the free migration of rural labor9
Urban fragmentation and innovation collaboration: Evidence from China9
Assessing the role of economic globalization on energy efficiency: Evidence from a global perspective9
Recent progress in hukou reform and labor market integration in China: 1996–20229
The impact of health insurance on informal care: Evidence from China's urban-rural basic health insurance consolidation9
Good for bad: The heterogeneous effects of export controls on firms' ESG9
Intergenerational preference transmission in physician families during the pandemic: Theory and evidence9
Digital finance development, financial mismatches, and corporate shadow banking activities9
Geographical proximity to government and corporate litigation behavior: Evidence from China9
From social networks to sustainable solutions: Unpacking the influence of social capital on green innovation9
The backfiring effects of monetary and gift incentives on Covid-19 vaccination intentions9
Synergizing anti-corruption strategies: Group monitoring and endogenous crackdown – An experimental investigation8
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Causal effect of aviation on air pollution: An instrumental variable from faraway COVID-19 restrictions in China8
Digital finance and investment of micro and small enterprises: Evidence from China8
Air pollution, technology seeking and firms' cross-border M&A8
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How trade drives fluctuations in macroeconomics in China – A multi-level dynamic factor approach8
Free teacher education in rural China: Incentives and challenges8
Regulation-induced digitalization8
Student leadership experience and job accessibility: An experiment from China8
A screening perspective on experimental zones8
How is Fintech reshaping the traditional financial markets? New evidence from InsurTech and insurance sectors in China8
Delayed tax rebates, cash flow, and corporate spending: A quasi-experiment from China8
FinTech and consumption resilience to uncertainty shocks: Evidence from digital wealth management in China8
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