China Economic Review

1990 - 2026

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 99, issue C, 2026

How do housing rents affect migrants' health? Evidence from the China migrants dynamic survey

Liping Liao, Minzhe Du and Chenglei Zhang

Female leadership, attractiveness, and corporate philanthropy

Leng Ling, Danglun Luo and Wenhui Yang

What cities pay for: IT vs. interpersonal skills in China’s urban labor markets

Dian Hong and Sirui Qiu

Environmental regulation and indirect innovation effects along supply chain: Evidence from China's water pollution prevention and control action plan

Kerui Du, Kaixi He and Xin Yao

Unity for longevity: Corporate collaboration culture and global innovation network integration

Yu He, Xiaomin Jiang, Tao Li and Ran Wei

Digital transformation and climate transition risk management: Evidence from Chinese listed firms

Junru Guo, Jia He, Yuan Ren and Yixin Zhang

Tasks and the gender wage gap in urban China, 2002 –2023

Xinxin Ma, Jiachen Han and Shi Li

Thermal extremes and airline reliability: Evidence from China's aviation market

Jingjun Hao, Di Wang and Xin Yao

“Friend-shoring” and global supply chains: Empirical evidence from the semiconductor industry

Yanyun Li, Faqin Lin, Kaiyue Yang and Qianqian Zhang

Quantifying the Global Value Chain and Welfare Effects of RCEP: Implications for the U.S.-China Trade Frictions

Shuijun Peng, Lamei Wu, Shangyao Zhou, Jialin Xu and Bo Gao

Government procurement as a catalyst: Reshaping firm entry-exit dynamics in China

Tingwei Luo and Jianhao Lin

Reap more than sow: Experimental evidence of spillover effects from free eyeglass distribution among rural students in China

Jingchun Nie, Han Liu, Zulihumaer Reheman and Yaojiang Shi

Extreme heat and household consumption: Evidence from China

Mengmeng Guo and Yixiang Yu

Tax incentives and firm compliance: Evidence from China

Jingjing Fu, Zhikuo Liu, Shuyi Wang and Xiaolu Zhao

Volume 98, issue C, 2026

Imports of key capital goods and firms’ span of production stages: A global value chain perspective

Liang Zhang, Hengrui Zhou, Lamei Wu and Jialin Xu

From vocational high school to higher vocational education: Effects on early career earnings and occupations

Sihang Rao, Denise Hare and Hongmei Yi

The impacts of abolishing grade retention on schools and families in China

Bin Liang and Shiying Zhang

The relative contribution of political shocks to total spillovers in semiconductor industry

Yifei Cai, Jialin Yang, Xiaowen Fu and Yahua Zhang

Can green mergers and acquisitions drive firms' transition to green exports? Evidence from China's manufacturing sector

Rui Long and Zhaobin Fan

A proposition of lose-lose: Detrimental consequences of trade wars

Wan-Jung Cheng, Ping Wang and Shin-Ru Yang

Do bankruptcy judicial reforms improve small and medium enterprises' investment efficiency? Evidence from China

Lulu Di and Qiurui Mou

Corrigendum to ‘Local government intervention and agro-cluster development: A comparative study of multi-stage ginger clusters in China’ [China Economic Review (2026) 102694]

Songze Li, Yujing Song, Xiuwei Cao and Jikun Huang

Haze and crime: Evidence from court judgments in China

Yajie Han, Ming Li and Yu Qin

Impacts of administrative policy changes on housing prices: Evidence from the removal of China's housing purchase and resale restrictions

Tunye Qiu and Bowen Wang

Labor ideology under technological shocks: The impact of industrial robot adoption on work values

Yibing Ding, Xiaoou Zhang and Ziwei Liu

Incomes, aspiration adaptation, and happiness: Evidence from China

Jinyang Yang, Liang You and Yingheng Zhou

Employment challenges of Chinese college graduates: trends, heterogeneity, and employer responses

Yao Lu and Xiaoguang Li

Who benefits and how? Gendered effects of higher education expansion on local human capital investment

Wei Ha, Lu Lin, Sammy Pan and Shu Xu

Digital tax administration and conglomerates capital structure adjustment driven by tax planning

Xufei Zhang and Hongsheng Fang

Information leverage: Housing market dynamics in public rehabilitation projects

Ying Fan and Hengtai Yu

How polluting enterprises respond to Pigovian tax: Evidence from China's environmental protection tax law

Xiaolei Yang, Panbing Wan and Mian Yang

Group identity and cooperative behavior: Evidence from a public goods experiment

Yexin Zhou, Ru Chen and Jubo Yan

Participation rates in a group-based early childhood development program: Evidence from rural China

Zhidi Zhang, Lei Wang, Yun Shen, Jessica Lin, Philip Meng, Isabella Zheng, Norah Zhao, Katelynn You, Teresa Song, Alvin Wu, Hanwen Zhang, Bingquan Zhu and Scott Rozelle

Intellectual property services and the commercialization of patents: Insights from Chinese scientists

Yiling Guo, Shiyu Zhong, Chuyi Zhou, Jinhua Xiang and Xuan Leng

Historical clans and litigation aversion

He Shijun, Shan Mengjue and Zhou Qingyuan

Volume 97, issue C, 2026

How digital firms shape innovation networks: Evidence from corporate patent citations

Zhi Su, Jiahao Tang and Hongling Guan

China and the world economy: Pathways of resilience, innovation, and transformation

Tariq H. Malik, Xiangjun Ma and Jack Hou

Early-life adversity and e-commerce adoption in old age: Evidence from China’s Great Famine

Xiaohao Huang and Lixin Tang

Depth, trade, and welfare analysis of the CPTPP and RCEP: Does deepening RCEP to CPTPP standards make a difference?

Kumuthini Sivathas

Information-based resilience: Credit line disclosure as strategic response to natural disasters

Lulu Pan and Mengmeng Xu

Firm-government social exchange: Are venture firms more charitable after receiving government subsidy?

Wei Liu, Wen Helena Li, Jing Yu Yang and Liang Wen

Merchant guild culture and corporate violations: Evidence from China

Na Chen

The origin of land preference culture: Land scarcity in history and household real estate investment today

Zhenyu Lin, Zhe Wang, Kai Xie and Huan Yang

Transparency matters: Public vs. non-public use of the counter-cyclical factor and renminbi exchange rate volatility

Yike Sun, Yimin Wu, Yoshihiro Kitamura and Zuojun Fan

Diverse roots and thriving ventures: Unveil the impact of cultural diversity on China’s entrepreneurship development

Wanting Xu, Shuai Shi and Ruiyang Wang

Online entertainment and exports: Evidence from a Chinese video game

Tianyu Wang, Lei Li, Feng Li and Bocong Liu

Innovation at crossroads: The effect of merger and acquisition on inventors’ creativity

Xiaohua Bao, Wen Ruan, Yaning Wei and Wentao Wu

From farm to firewall: E-commerce and the growth of new occupational opportunities

Ling Ma, Jun Wang and Shanyong Wang

Local government intervention and agro-cluster development: A comparative study of multi-stage ginger clusters in China

Songze Li, Yujing Song, Xiuwei Cao and Jikun Huang

Trade value of international friendship: Evidence from foreign exchange activities of Chinese cities

Jianjun Zhou, Dianer Ding and Huasheng Song

The effects of sectoral TFP on China’s structural transformation and growth

Xilu Chen and Kaiming Guo

Corrigendum to ‘Innovation at crossroads: The effect of merger and acquisition on inventors’ creativity’ [China Economic Review 97 (2026) 102692]

Xiaohua Bao, Wen Ruan, Yaning Wei and Wentao Wu

Vertical integration and social welfare: Evidence from China's electric vehicle industry

Guodong Li, Yong Tan and Ying Zhu

The child penalty in the rental housing market: Do landlords discriminate couples with children?

Ziming Liu, Xinrui Wu, Zihan Yu, Zhaoyingzi Dong and Jens Rommel