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 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

Volume 87, issue C, 2024

Heterogeneous peer effects under endogenous selection: An application to local and migrant children in elementary schools in Shanghai

Yuanyuan Chen, Shuaizhang Feng and Chao Yang

‘One System, Two Shadows’: A local public finance perspective on China's shadow banking system

Shidai Zhang and Kellee S. Tsai

Sectoral shocks, production linkages, and business cycles in China11We sincerely thank the associate editor, Kang Shi, and two anonymous referees for their invaluable suggestions and comments. Their contributions have been truly significant to this project. Any remaining errors are ours

Lunan Jiang, Young Sik Kim and Lin Zhang

Plant-level adjustments to imports and exports at the extensive margin

Andreas Hauptmann, Hans-Jörg Schmerer and Benjamin Schwanebeck

Speculation, climate or pandemic: Who drives the Chinese herbal medicine bubbles?

Meng Qin, Ai-Hsuan Su, Ruifeng Li and Chi-Wei Su

Intergenerational transmission of non-cognitive abilities: Evidence from the Wuhan Birth Cohort Studies

Ying Li, Shuhang Zhao, Zhilei Shi and Jingchun Nie

City civilization, employment creation and talent agglomeration: Empirical evidence from “National Civilized City” policy in China

Meng Guo, Danglun Luo and Chen Liu

Soybean overweight shock (SOS): The impact of trade liberalization in China on overweight prevalence

Rui Wang, Faqin Lin and Kuo Feng

Do teachers colleges prepare more effective teachers? Evidence from a top school district in China

Qi Zheng, Xin Xie, Xiaoyang Ye and Yi Wei

Environmental regulation and manufacturing employment: Evidence from China's Eleventh Five-Year Plan

Jiaqi Liao and Ning Zhang

Does childhood adversity affect household portfolio decisions? Evidence from the Chinese Great Famine

Zhiming Cheng, Russell Smyth and Le Zhang

Feed the children, free the women? Evidence from the China rural nutrition improvement program

Ge Wang, Xinjie Shi and Jane Golley

Incentive adjustments and land leasing behavior shifts: A quasi-natural experiment of off-office audits

Jian Cheng, Jiangmeng Zhao and Dandan Liu

Adapting to trade friction: The supply chain dynamics of Chinese suppliers

Guangyuan Guo, Dongmin Hu, Huanhuan Wang and Zhiqiang Zhang

Recent progress in hukou reform and labor market integration in China: 1996–2022

Zhu Chen, Qianqian Shang and Jipeng Zhang

The effect of mandatory CSR disclosure on stock liquidity

Zhiyuan Li, Wenlian Lin and Sili Zhou

The role of information in nudging Chinese consumers from choosing sugar to alternative sweeteners

Lijun Guan, Shaosheng Jin and Wen Lin

Born by water: Does water resource reallocation promote entrepreneurship?

Shengming Hu, Yunyun Zhang, Yao Hu and Hui Wang

The impact of welfare design on consumption patterns of the poor: Evidence from the recent Dibao reform in rural China11This research is supported by National Social Science Foundation of China (22AZD114 and 21ZDA098). The authors would like to thank Prof. Jing You and Guangsu Zhou for providing valuable comments on the earlier drafts of this paper

Yang Song and Zerui Cheng

How does climate regulatory risk influence labor employment decisions? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment

William Mbanyele, Hongyun Huang, Linda T. Muchenje and Jun Zhao

Pre-marital homeownership as self-protection against divorce risks: Evidence from China's property division regime change

Yu Zhang, Ge Yang, Muhan Li and Mengjie Yao

Enhancing China's image in Africa: The role of the Belt and Road Initiative

Ziwei Liu and Yibing Ding

Can IP tribunals increase firm patent applications?—Empirical evidence from China

Yufei Zhang, Li Wang and Tengjiao He

Contract enforcement efficiency and corporate vertical specialization: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment of “announcement of dishonest persons” in China

Chaoying Li, Chunxiao Geng, Jian Sun and Chun Yuan

Corrigendum to “The political economy of COVID-19 in China” [China Economic Review, Volume 85, 2024, 102143]

Qi Li, Zhiting Yuan and Ran Tao

The effect of government-firm relationship on pollution reduction: The role of official performance appraisal

Gaoyi Lin, Changtuo Xu, Hailin Chen and Kai Tang

Price of going green: The employment effects of the environmental protection tax in China

Shuling Lu and Qijing Yang

How digital finance shapes residents' health: Evidence from China

Liping Liao and Minzhe Du

Online markets, offline happiness: E-commerce development and subjective well-being in rural China

Binhui Wei, Chunkai Zhao and Mingzhong Luo

Digitalization of industries and labor mobility in China

Heting Wang, Huijuan Wang and Rong Guan

The impact of digital infrastructure on the geographical supply chain layout of firms —— Evidence from Chinese microdata

Jie Ji and Ying Wang

Impact of a health system vertical integration program on patient expenditures and healthcare utilization: Evidence from county hospitals in East China

Wei Jiang, Qiulin Chen, Xuyan Lou, Lina Song and Zhuo Chen

The effect of the end-number license plate driving restriction on reducing air pollution in China

Yuqi Song

Does liquidity regulation affect commercial banks' carbon bias? Evidence from China

Junxun Dai, Yan Liu, Wei Yuan and Xin Zou

Traffic violations and economic preferences: Evidence from full-time drivers of a large transportation network company in China

Youxin Hu, Shaoqing Huang, Ming Jiang and Xiaoshu Xu

Maternity leave reform and women's labor supply: Evidence from China

Yu Shen, Xueting Qie and Qingmiao Bi

Asymmetric employer learning and gender-based statistical discrimination in China

Qian Sun

Effect of parenting centers on caregiver mental health ——Evidence from a large scale randomized controlled trial in rural China

Ai Yue, Qiannan Song, Yuan Gao, Shibin Liang, Xinyue Zhang, Yali Zhang, Yuxiu Ding and Yaojiang Shi

The impact of tax enforcement on corporate energy efficiency: Evidence from a tax collection reform in China

Qiuhang Xing, Mengzhe Li and Gaoshuang Xu

Green credit and firms’ span of global production stages

Jiatong Jiang, Jiansuo Pei and Meng Zhang

Intensified law enforcement and firm innovation: Evidence from China's antitrust consolidation

Jialiang Zhu and Jinnan Gu