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 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

Volume 88, issue C, 2024

Spillover effects of external economic shocks on African sovereign bonds

Hao Xiao, Jie Lin and Xiaoyang Tang

Why has China invested heavily in countries with weak market environments? A new explanation and implications for China-Africa economic cooperation

Changyuan Luo and Zhitao Chen

Institutional quarantine and economic preferences: Experimental evidence from China

Yanan Zhang, Jianbiao Li, Qian Cao and Xiaofei Niu

Pollution haven or pollution halo? Testing direct and spillover effects of FDI

Xunyong Xiang, Ruier Liu and Wenjie Luo

Creating cities and food security challenge: Evidence from the city–county merger policy in China

Wenhui Chen, Jinhai Xu, Xiangpo Chen and Xinyan Hu

Does air pollution cause more car accidents? Evidence from auto insurance claims

Yongheng Deng, Jia He, Bingqing Li and Xixi Shen

Regulation-induced digitalization

Yunqi Zhang and Xiaoyu Zhang

How environmental information is capitalized into the housing market? Evidence from China's National Ambient Air Quality Standards

Kunlun Wang and Hongjiang Yao

Digitalization and pollution: Evidence from South Africa

Yueling Wei, Hongsheng Zhang and Zihan Zhao

Gender difference in leaders framed with responsibility or authority: An experimental study

Xu Jiang and Xianghong Wang

How to encourage consumers' ongoing participation in physical exercise via feedback: Evidence from a longitudinal field experiment

Yifang Zhou, Yi Zhou, Lingfang Ivy Li and Liyin Jin

Local government debt and corporate asset-debt maturity mismatches: Evidence from China

Xi Wen, Wanli Li and Zhixuan Shen

Lights dim, exports down: Examining the trade effects of power shortages on Chinese manufacturing firms

Bingpeng Bao, Dahai Fu, Jian Yu and Ying Zhang

Does survey mode matter? An experimental evaluation of data quality in China

Shihan Feng and Feng Huang

Internet development and entrepreneurship

Jia Guo, Zhiming Cheng and Ben Zhe Wang

Has R&D contributed to productivity growth in China? The role of basic, applied and experimental R&D

Yixiao Zhou and Sudyumna Dahal

Impacts of CEO-employee pay disparity on investor behavior and market dynamics: Evidence from laboratory asset markets

Xiaolan Yang, Jiaqi Wang and Shu Chen

Risk attitudes across the life course: Evidence from China

Lingguo Cheng and Yunfeng Lu

Who gains, who loses? – The impact of the belt and road initiative on bilateral agricultural trade

Yongzhi Zhao, Changjing Ji, Yangfen Chen and Xueqin Zhu

How does enterprise digitalization affect corporate carbon emission in China: A firm-level study

Yang Yang, Pundarik Mukhopadhaya and Zhuangxiong Yu

Too old to spend? Understanding the consumption of the elderly in China

Geran Tian, Changlun Jin and Weixing Wu

Waves or ripples: African countries risk shocks and the survival of Chinese exports to Africa

Xinjian Ye, Mingyong Lai, Hao Xiao and Dinggen Zhou

R&D project subsidy V.S. government innovation reward: The effectiveness on corporate innovation

Yafei Li, Xiaoqi Dong and Jinping Sun

The effect of political connections on the distribution of firm performance

Xuan Li and Yanchen Wang

How corruption prevails: A laboratory experiment

Yefeng Chen, Yuli Ding, Lei Mao, Yiwen Pan and Xue Wang

The deterrent effect of environmental judicature on firms' pollution emissions: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China

Peng Zhou, Xiaoqi Huang and Frank M. Song

Unveiling the shadows: School bullying and students' ability erosions in Chinese compulsory schools

Yunsen Li, Dan He, Yilin Wang, Guochang Zhao and Jing Yang

The long-term cognitive and schooling effects of childhood vaccinations in China

Hamid R. Oskorouchi, Alfonso Sousa-Poza and David E. Bloom

How motivations and costs affect financial knowledge learning? Evidence from a large-scale FinTech experiment in China

Xuefeng Pan, Qin Su and Haibo Lei

Cognitive ability in matching with strategic uncertainty: An experimental study

Xinquan Hu and Lan Yao

Infrastructure and the patterns of trade: An empirical look at China

Shuaihang Li, Qihong Liu and Qing Liu

Optimal taxation, differential mortality, and endogenous human capital accumulation in China

Ye Chen, Cagri S. Kumru and Yurui Zhang

Intergenerational preference transmission in physician families during the pandemic: Theory and evidence

Yiting Guo, Lijia Wei and Lian Xue

Did the anti-avoidance rules curtail the profit shifting of foreign multinationals in China?

Mantian Xue

Follow the gaze: How social attention shapes gendered trading choices

Xiaolan Yang, Xiaotong Fang, Mei Gao, Lucy Ackert and Li Qi

Quenching thirst, easing debt: Improvement in water resource endowment alleviates local government debt risk

Wei Dai, Zhongxin Ni and Enping Yu

The paradox of decelerated technology importation and accelerated innovation in China: Insights from national technology development zones

Wenyin Cheng, Bo Meng, Yuning Gao and David Dollar

Does online education magnify educational inequalities? Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic

Yue Sun, Can Tang and Zhong Zhao

Can data elements enhance urban innovation? Evidence from China

Changbiao Zhong and Chao Zhang

Dual effects of automation on economy and environment: Evidence from A-share listed enterprises in China

Zhenhua Zhang, Yunpeng Zhang, Huangbin Wu, Shunfeng Song, Yuxi Pan and Yanchao Feng

The effects of monthly minimum wages on the labor market

Zhengxiong Yang, Mingwei Liu, Shiwei Zhang and Chenxi Yin

Can higher education improve egalitarian gender role attitudes? Evidence from China

Lifang Zhang and Jiusheng Zhu