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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
The hidden cost of corporate tax cuts: Evidence from worker health in China132
Choosing tournament for children: Parenting style and information intervention116
How corruption prevails: A laboratory experiment114
Unveiling paradoxes of access: How higher education expansion shapes intergenerational educational mobility in China's admission quota system103
Can higher education improve egalitarian gender role attitudes? Evidence from China100
Dams, cropland productivity, and economic development in China84
Research on contracting institutions and convergence78
How does people’s liberation army related business closure affect the local economy?74
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Economic well-being and farming sustainability when trade shocks occur: Insights from agricultural households71
Toward consumer city: Subway network expansion and consumption industry growth70
Export destinations and pollution reduction: Theory and evidence from Chinese enterprises61
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Effects of export growth on the location choices of migrant workers: Evidence from China60
Perceived relative income, fairness, and the role of government: Evidence from a randomized survey experiment in China56
Publish or perish: Up-or-out rules and research performance of universities55
Unexpected opportunity for girls: Earthquake, disaster relief and female education in China's poor counties48
Valuing research output: Evidence from a Chinese university46
Earning reduction caused by air pollution: Evidence from China46
Enhancing China's image in Africa: The role of the Belt and Road Initiative45
The income redistribution effect of social security in China44
Broadband internet and income inequality among the floating population: Evidence from the “broadband China” strategy in China44
The innovation of family firms in China: New evidence from the China employer-employee survey43
Intergenerational transmission of non-cognitive abilities: Evidence from the Wuhan Birth Cohort Studies41
Intensive judicial oversight and corporate green innovations: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China41
Development zones and green innovation: Evidence from Chinese listed companies40
Has the digital economy improved the consumption of poor and subsistence households?40
Impact of fast internet access on employment: Evidence from a broadband expansion in China40
Can data elements enhance urban innovation? Evidence from China40
Local guarantees and SOE bond pricing in China40
Blowin’ in the wind: Smog and suicidal ideation among school-age children39
A blessing and a curse: Identifying how knowledge complexity influences regional innovation efficiency in the presence of varying spatial externalities39
Short-term impact of climate change on labor market in China: Quantitative spatial analysis based on an oligopsony model39
How to encourage consumers' ongoing participation in physical exercise via feedback: Evidence from a longitudinal field experiment39
Equity diversification as a catalyst for Artificial Intelligence innovation: Evidence from Chinese state-owned enterprises39
What you breathe makes you poor: The effect of air pollution on income38
CO2 allocation and equity issues under China's carbon neutrality targets: Recent advances and a review38
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Patrilineality, fertility, and women's income: Evidence from family lineage in China36
Is the People's Bank of China consistent in words and deeds?36
The impacts of superstition on risk preferences and beliefs: Evidence from the Chinese zodiac year35
Peer effects in rural housing demand: Evidence from China35
Effects of temperature on mental health: Evidence and mechanisms from China35
Air pollution and agricultural labor supply: Evidence from China34
Who benefits from household energy transition? A cost-benefit analysis based on household survey data in China34
Memory of famine: The persistent impact of famine experience on food waste behavior34
Long-term care insurance policy and the development of elderly care enterprises in China33
The spatiotemporal evolution of COVID-19 in China and its impact on urban economic resilience32
Socioeconomic status and inequalities in early development of non-cognitive skills: Evidence from China32
The effect of broadband internet on children's weight: Evidence from China32
The effect of clean heating policy on individual health: Evidence from China32
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Risk education and tax aggressiveness: Evidence from China's auditor certification reform31
China's growing but slowing inequality of household wealth, 2013–2018: A challenge to ‘common prosperity’?31
Decision-making as cognitive household labor: Higher education expansion, women empowerment, and their intra-household decision-making responsibility30
Willingness-to-pay for early childhood development: A field experiment in Western China30
Corporate key labs: Breakthrough or white elephant?29
Higher education expansion and supply of teachers in China28
Creating cities and food security challenge: Evidence from the city–county merger policy in China28
Nonlinear relationship between the number of children and late-life cognition28
How digital finance shapes residents' health: Evidence from China27
Does education affect fertility timing? Evidence from Taiwan27
Bankruptcy judicial reform and corporate trade credit financing27
Self-employment and co-villager networks of internal migrants in China27
Optimal taxation, differential mortality, and endogenous human capital accumulation in China26
Search frictions in rental markets: Evidence from urban China26
The ladder of prosperity: An analysis of housing wealth accumulation across income groups in urban China26
Capital flows under integration: Evidence from China's metropolitan area development planning26
The effectiveness and costs of nonpharmaceutical interventions for COVID-19 containment: A border discontinuous difference-in-difference approach25
Endogenous price discrimination with asymmetric firms25
Market structure, resource allocation, and industry productivity growth: Firm-level evidence from China's steel industry25
Did the anti-avoidance rules curtail the profit shifting of foreign multinationals in China?24
Childhood trauma among Chinese inmates24
Bubble into reallocation: How bubbles improve capital allocation in China24
Higher education expansion and the rise of China in economics research23
Does villager social capital hinder poverty targeting? Evidence from poverty-stricken county of Western China23
Can reducing agricultural trade costs foster the transformation of the agrifood system? Evidence from China23
Is care by grandparents or parents better for children's non-cognitive skills? Evidence on locus of control from China23
Regulating strategic expense relabelling in R&D tax incentives by mandatory information disclosure23
Revisiting income inequality among households: New evidence from the Chinese Household Income Project23
Maternity leave reform and women's labor supply: Evidence from China23
Imports of key capital goods and quality upgrading: Evidence from China's import subsidy policy23
Digitalization of industries and labor mobility in China22
BigTech credit risk assessment for SMEs22
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Climate risk and household stock market participation21
Unintended negative impact of environmental regulation on public safety: Evidence from China21
Inside job, Chinese style: Suspicious use of public funds under fiscal pressure21
The nexus between digital finance and household consumption-based carbon emissions: Evidence from China21
The limits to growth in the AI-driven economy21
State-owned enterprise presence: Local spillovers20
Does winning a venture competition encourage entrepreneurial exploration? Evidence from China20
Growing pains for others: Using holidays to identify the pollution spillover between China and South Korea20
Pursuing a brighter future: Impact of the Hukou reform on human capital investment in migrant children in China20
MULAN in the name: Causes and consequences of gendered Chinese names20
Higher education reform in China: A comprehensive review of policymaking, implementation, and outcomes since 197820
Feed the children, free the women? Evidence from the China rural nutrition improvement program19
Industrialize with tax structure change: Agricultural tax abolition and local industrial growth in China19
Long-term consequences of fertility on elderly labor supply19
Driving restrictions, traffic speeds and carbon emissions: Evidence from high-frequency data19
Sectoral shocks, production linkages, and business cycles in China19
Export contraction and input switching in an aging China18
Adapting to trade friction: The supply chain dynamics of Chinese suppliers18
Carbon dioxide emission typology and policy implications: Evidence from machine learning18
Exposure to socially influential peer parents: Evidence from cadre parents in China18
The impact of welfare design on consumption patterns of the poor: Evidence from the recent Dibao reform in rural China18
CEO experience and corporate financing decisions: Evidence from a natural experiment in China17
Leveling the playing field: How intellectual property protection countervails foreign quality shocks17
Attraction or repulsion? The creation of civilized cities and the resident intention of migrants17
Carbon dioxide fertilization, carbon neutrality, and food security17
Does food recall strategy have a positive or negative effect on trust repair? Moderation analysis based on trust violation types and trust disposition17
Relationship between health behavior compliance and prospect theory-based risk preferences during a pandemic of COVID-1917
Children's marriage and parental subjective well-being: Evidence from China17
Narrow framing and under-diversification: Empirical evidence from Chinese households17
Economic geography of talent migration and agglomeration in China: A dual-driver framework17
Financial permeation and rural poverty reduction Nexus: Further insights from counties in China17
Digital financial inclusion and subjective well-being – Evidence from China health and retirement longitudinal study17
Gender difference in leaders framed with responsibility or authority: An experimental study17
Environmental regulation and manufacturing employment: Evidence from China's Eleventh Five-Year Plan16
Breaking segregation in classrooms: Peer composition and inter-group relationships16
The effect of soil pollution information disclosure on housing prices16
China's low-carbon technology trade: Facts and implications16
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
More than a new campus: University's spatial expansion, emerging knowledge cluster, and innovation growth16
Gender identity, preference, and relative income within households16
Multi-province comparisons of digital financial inclusion performance in China: A group ranking method with preference analysis15
Early-life experience of land reform and entrepreneurship15
Financial liberalization and capital allocation in China15
Narrative monetary policy expectation in China15
Extreme heat and firms' robot adoption: Evidence from China15
Family size, labor supply, and job prestige: Evidence from three decennial censuses in China15
Top incomes and income polarisation in China15
Political budget cycles, government size, and the allocation of public funds: Evidence from prefectures in China15
Moving out of agriculture: How trade liberalization affects agricultural productivity in China15
BT-to-VAT reform and firm productivity: Evidence from a quasi-experiment in China15
Price of going green: The employment effects of the environmental protection tax in China15
The employment effects of VAT rebate efficiency: Evidence from SMEs in China15
The political economy of COVID-19 in China14
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Follow the gaze: How social attention shapes gendered trading choices14
Can robots reshape gender role attitudes?14
The impact of COVID-19 on employment and income of vocational graduates in China: Evidence from surveys in January and July 202014
Marriage, gender, and premiums from cadre parents14
Husbands' wages and married women's labor supply in urban China14
Legal environment, contract intensity, and export quality14
Key links in network interactions: Assessing route-specific travel restrictions in China during the Covid-19 pandemic14
The role of information in nudging Chinese consumers from choosing sugar to alternative sweeteners14
Working mothers' dilemma during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from China14
Present bias, mental budget constraint, and the payday consumption cycle13
Corrigendum to “The political economy of COVID-19 in China” [China Economic Review, Volume 85, 2024, 102143]13
The adoption and use of mobile payment: Determinants and relationship with bank access☆13
Effects of cohort size on college premium: Evidence from China's higher education expansion13
College peer effects on learning behaviors in synchronous online courses13
Soybean overweight shock (SOS): The impact of trade liberalization in China on overweight prevalence13
Relative deprivation and health revisited: New evidence from middle-aged and older adults in rural China13
Birthplace diversity and private giving: Evidence from China13
Does digital finance affect energy consumption structure upgrading? Evidence from Chinese rural households13
Judicial institutions, local protection and market segmentation: Evidence from the establishment of interprovincial circuit tribunals in China13
Fleshing out the olive? Observations on income polarization in China since 198112
The time-varying zone-like and asymmetric preference of central banks: Evidence from China12
Cognitive ability, non-cognitive ability and occupational attainment in China12
The effect of education on health and health behaviors: Evidence from the college enrollment expansion in China12
Do firms benefit from public information services: Evidence from a tax hotline program in China12
An experimental study of intra- and international cooperation: Chinese and American play in the Prisoner’s Dilemma Game12
Budget rollover and year-end spending in China: evidence from public procurement contracts12
Maturity mismatch and disinvestment as transmission mechanisms: Linking economic policy uncertainty to firm performance12
Environmental consequences of fuel price shocks in China12
Who benefits from compulsory education? Evidence from the average and heterogeneous effects on migrant welfare in China12
Job destruction and creation: Labor reallocation entailed by the clean air action in China12
Clan culture and risk-taking of Chinese enterprises12
How the COVID-19 pandemic affects job sentiments of rural teachers12
Does targeted poverty alleviation policy lead to happy life? Evidence from rural China11
Does trade liberalization improve child health? Evidence from China11
China's skill-biased imports11
Effects of wealth on the intensity of competition: Evidence from a lab experiment11
Heterogeneous peer effects under endogenous selection: An application to local and migrant children in elementary schools in Shanghai11
Sibling spillovers in rural China: A story of sisters11
Financial reforms and capital accumulation in developing economies: New data and evidence11
Does export liberalization cause the agglomeration of pollution? Evidence from China11
Pandemic and insurance purchase: How do people respond to unprecedented risk and uncertainty?11
Does the early bird catch the worm? Evidence and interpretation on the long-term impact of school entry age in China11
Dual social identities, cross-cultural differences, and cooperation: Evidence from the One Country, Two Systems paradigm11
Efficiency or equity? The effect of an exogenous agricultural commercial shock: Evidence from Manchuria in the 1930s11
From welfare enterprises to broad tax incentives: Effects of employment policy changes on disabled in China11
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Does historic preservation affect firms' output? Evidence from the awarding of the Historic City title in China11
City size and the employment of female migrant workers in the service sector: Evidence from urban China11
Profiling Chinese entrepreneurs11
Customer digital transformation and enterprise risk-taking: Evidence from Chinese supply chains11
Does learning longer improve student achievement? Evidence from online education of graduating students in a high school during COVID-19 period10
Environmental regulation and outward foreign direct investment: Evidence from China10
Impacts of CEO-employee pay disparity on investor behavior and market dynamics: Evidence from laboratory asset markets10
The impact of the “Full Liberalization of Household Registration” policy on the free migration of rural labor10
When left-behind children become adults and parents: The long-term human capital consequences of parental absence in China10
The social support returns to college education in China: Evidence from online medical crowdfunding10
Tax Incentives, On-the-job Training, and Human Capital Accumulation: Evidence from China10
Transborder spillover effects of poverty on crime: Applying spatial econometric models to Chinese data10
Born to be different: The role of local political leaders in poverty reduction in China10
A measure of industrial clustering: Considering relatedness and scale10
Can military executives overcome difficulties in corporate value creation? ——Evidence from China10
The impact of household debt on the wealth distribution and inequality in China10
Good for bad: The heterogeneous effects of export controls on firms' ESG10
Climbing the social ladder: Clans and intergenerational mobility in China10
Birth order effects and parenting behaviors9
Geographical proximity to government and corporate litigation behavior: Evidence from China9
Looking good by doing good: CEO attractiveness and corporate philanthropy9
Through trials and hardships: Internal migration and locus of control among Chinese entrepreneurs9
Assessing the role of economic globalization on energy efficiency: Evidence from a global perspective9
Intergenerational preference transmission in physician families during the pandemic: Theory and evidence9
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
How does non-financial firms' systemic risk affect their credit constraints? Evidence from China9
Digital finance development, financial mismatches, and corporate shadow banking activities9
Communist Party branch and labour rights: Evidence from Chinese entrepreneurs9
Intensified law enforcement and firm innovation: Evidence from China's antitrust consolidation9
Urbanization or “Townization”? Measuring the evolution of urban systems in modern China9
Urban fragmentation and innovation collaboration: Evidence from China9
Income inequality and happiness: Which inequalities matter in China?9
The backfiring effects of monetary and gift incentives on Covid-19 vaccination intentions8
How trade drives fluctuations in macroeconomics in China – A multi-level dynamic factor approach8
Does party organization construction improve chinese banks' stability? Evidence from a new textual index8
Internet use and fertility behavior among reproductive-age women in China8
Synergizing anti-corruption strategies: Group monitoring and endogenous crackdown – An experimental investigation8
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The power of policy words: PBC communications and their impact on capital flows amidst global crises8
Recent progress in hukou reform and labor market integration in China: 1996–20228
Trade in factor income and the US-China trade balance8
How does enterprise digitalization affect corporate carbon emission in China: A firm-level study8
Regulation-induced digitalization8
A screening perspective on experimental zones8
Causal effect of aviation on air pollution: An instrumental variable from faraway COVID-19 restrictions in China8
Diet in China during substantial economic growth: Quality, inequality, trends, and determinants8
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The impact of health insurance on informal care: Evidence from China's urban-rural basic health insurance consolidation8
How is Fintech reshaping the traditional financial markets? New evidence from InsurTech and insurance sectors in China8
Greening of Chinese industrial sector: Stakeholders' responsiveness to non-governmental environmental monitoring8
Depressed access to formal finance and the use of credit card debt in Chinese SMEs8
From social networks to sustainable solutions: Unpacking the influence of social capital on green innovation8
Buy now, pay later as liquidity insurance: Evidence from an early experiment in China7
The relaxation of birth control policies adversely affects women's income: Evidence from China's universal two-child policy7
Urban population distribution in China: Evidence from internet population7
Neighbors in space: Satellite imagery and Chinese B-share discount7
University education, homeownership and housing wealth7
Ownership concentration and financial policy of China's listed firms7
New “useless education theory”: Highly educated parents' expectations for their children's education—Evidence from the one-child policy7
Does cross-border investment improve mutual fund performance? Evidence from China7
Sustainable development in China? A nonparametric decomposition of economic growth7
Spillover effects of external economic shocks on African sovereign bonds7
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