China Economic Review

1990 - 2025

Current editor(s): B.M. Fleisher, K. X. D. Huang, M.E. Lovely, Y. Wen, X. Zhang and X. Zhu

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Volume 90, issue C, 2025

Industrialize with tax structure change: Agricultural tax abolition and local industrial growth in China

Meng Tang

The relaxation of birth control policies adversely affects women's income: Evidence from China's universal two-child policy

Zihao Chen and Xu Tian

Geopolitics along the value chains

Renjing Chen, Chenxin Jin, Wei Jin, Bin Sheng and Guanxiang Wang

Fiscal decentralization and food production: Evidence from Province-Managing-County reform in China

Hongqi Ma, Cong Qin, Jingxian Zou and Wei Zhang

Enhancing optimal consumption: Experimental insights into nudging borrowing behavior via a life cycle model

Xue Zhou, Xiaolan Yang, Xuejun Jin and Lele Zhang

Gender differences in the tendency to follow private information: Evidence from a social learning game

Zhaomin Li, Qian Cao, Jun Luo and Xiaofei Niu

Are firms with hometown CEOs better citizens? Evidence from the corporate poverty alleviation participation in China

Xiaobo Li, Min Huang, Jinan Shao, Mengyao Li and Wuyue Shangguan

Effects of wealth on the intensity of competition: Evidence from a lab experiment

Jun Zhao, Zhiqiang Dong, Weicheng Li and Hanqi Zhang

Unveiling paradoxes of access: How higher education expansion shapes intergenerational educational mobility in China's admission quota system

Jingfang Liu, Yang Yue and Junjian Zhu

Measuring child poverty in rural China: Evidence from households with left-behind and non-left-behind children

Yangcheng Yu, Shi Li and Yuanyuan Chen

Shadow and spillover: The influence of neighboring innovative cities on regional innovation growth

Wenyue Cui

Unveiling the impact and mechanism of agricultural input allocation on the income mobility of rural households: Evidence from China

Yun Shen, Di Zeng and Alec Zuo

The productivity and political radicalism of the Chinese cooperative movement11We are appreciate for two referees' comments on our manuscript, and we also thank the discussants on “The 2017 Symposium of Development and Institutional Economics” in Henan University. The research is funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China (71973047) and the Humanities and Social Science Research Program of Education Department of Henan Province (2024-ZZJH-140). Of course, all remain errors are ours

Pei Lu and Yuan Liu

Good for bad: The heterogeneous effects of export controls on firms' ESG

Qing Liu, Deting Jia, Huiling Liu and Kai Wang

Does the housing purchase restriction policy promote entrepreneurship? Evidence from China

Deng-Kui Si, Meng Wang and Yong Yu

The effect living arrangements and intergenerational support have on the incidence of catastrophic health expenditure: A microeconomic analysis for China

Sarah Bridges and Lefan Liu

Delegation and strategic collusion under antitrust policies: An experiment

Jeong Yeol Kim

Productivity implications of inefficient environmental regulation: Evidence from China

Jing Hang, Miaojun Wang and Mohan Zhou

Analysing decision behavior styles in contingent valuation: The latent class and the factor analysis

Hongyan Su, Jie He and Hua Wang

The effect of corporate energy management on carbon productivity: Regression discontinuity evidence from China

Hongwei Yu, Debin Fang, Yuling Pan and Bolin Yu

Unlocking the dual benefits: Economic and ecological impacts of China's National Key Ecological Function Areas

Houqi Shen, Yuanmeng Zhang, Mingzhe Wang and Yumeng Lei

How geopolitical tensions affect China’s systemic financial risk contagion

YingXue Zhou, Da Wang and Zhengyi Nie

“A tale of two rails”: Transportation infrastructure and technological spillovers from R&D center foreign firms

Lei Li, Bocong Liu, Bin Sheng and Tianyu Wang

Urbanization or “Townization”? Measuring the evolution of urban systems in modern China

Hao Feng, Jingyang Fu, Huiwen Li and Yuanbo Liang

Broadband internet and income inequality among the floating population: Evidence from the “broadband China” strategy in China

Qingfeng Cao, Pengfei Ni and Jing Guo

China's aid-giving modalities: Impacts on sustainable growth in China-Africa trade

Xu Shao, Qicheng Yang and Zhao Liu

Housing wealth of older adults and inter-generational transfers in China

Jing Liu, Xiaohui Zhang and Chunbing Xing

Labor cost, robots, and product quality

Junyi Xiang, Dongmin Kong and Fan Zhang

The green promise of digital finance: Exploring its effects and mechanisms on carbon reduction

Xu Dong, Shuai Lv and Shilei Wu

Digital pathways to resilience: Assessing the impact of digitalization on agricultural production resilience in China

Yuke Luo, Shiyuan Liu, Yang Zhang, Miao Zeng and Dandi Zhao

Talent magnets in China: Can talent attraction policies catalyze digital transformation in enterprises?

Zesu Hua, Shuning Kong and Yihua Yu

Volume 89, issue C, 2025

Trade sanctions and Global Value Chains: A China–South Africa perspective

Randolph Luca Bruno, Maria Cipollina and Silvia Dal Bianco

The impact of robots on unemployment duration: Evidence from the Chinese General Social Survey

Linhui Wang, Huilin Zhou and Guanghua Wan

Present bias, mental budget constraint, and the payday consumption cycle

Yonghao Xu, Juanjuan Meng, Yu Zhang and Jeffrey Koo

The effect of clean heating policy on individual health: Evidence from China

Liping Liao, Shuning Kong and Minzhe Du

Off the books, away from the market: Clan culture and female labor force participation

Feng Huang, Haichun Ye and Jing Zhang

Decision-making as cognitive household labor: Higher education expansion, women empowerment, and their intra-household decision-making responsibility

Juan Yang, Lifang Zhang and Jiusheng Zhu

Climate change and staple grain acreage: Regional adaptation in China's agricultural cluster

Le Yu, Yuan Chen and Siqi Zhang

Digital financial inclusion and middle-income group vulnerability alleviation: Evidence from China

Yulin Liu, Hebo Li and Cheng Wang

Measuring COVID-19 stigma and mitigating effect with hypothetical and non-hypothetical auction experiments

Na Hao, H. Holly Wang, Yi Zhang and Zhuo Chen

The effects of African civil conflicts on FDI: The moderating role of bilateral political relations

Hao Xiao, Bin Tang and Li Dai

Air pollution and entrepreneurship

Liwen Guo, Zhiming Cheng, Massimiliano Tani, Sarah Cook, Jiaqi Zhao and Xi Chen

Gender earnings gap in Chinese firms: Can it be narrowed by industrial robots?

Yue Deng, Aiya Feng and Dezhuang Hu

The bad neighborhood effect: Supply chain disruptions arising from neighboring wars

Haoyuan Ding, Junjie Tang and Mo Zhang

The impact of the “Full Liberalization of Household Registration” policy on the free migration of rural labor

Shan Hu and Nan Jia

External trade policy uncertainty, corporate risk exposure, and stock market volatility

Hongkui Liu, Jiasheng Yu, Guohao Tang and Jian Chen

Birds of a feather flock together? Gender differences in decision-making homophily of friendships

James Alm, Yuan Chen, Weizheng Lai, Xun Li and Peiwen Yuan

Smart city policy and export technology sophistication: Investigating linkages and potential pathways

Congyu Zhao, Ximing Luo, Cong Dong and Xiucheng Dong

The role of the digital economy in promoting energy justice: Evidence from procedural justice and restorative justice

Guoxiang Li, Huan Wen, Qian Sun and Jinjun Xue

Safety regulations and firm productivity

Xiaowei Chen, Zhilin Hu and Liguo Lin

Environmental regulation and equilibrium unemployment in China: Evidence from a multiple-sector search and matching model

Zhe Li, Pinjie Lyu and Jianfei Sun

Publish or perish: Up-or-out rules and research performance of universities

Bingyan Yang, Ruiming Liu, Chuanbin Liu and Yang Shi

Regulating strategic expense relabelling in R&D tax incentives by mandatory information disclosure

Xiaoyong Dai and Chen Zou