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 77, issue C, 2023

Who benefits from household energy transition? A cost-benefit analysis based on household survey data in China

Lunyu Xie, Chu Wei, Xinye Zheng, Yang Liu, Wanyi Wu and Ziru Feng

Individuals' and households' climate adaptation and mitigation behaviors: A systematic review

Jie-Sheng Tan-Soo, Jun Li and Ping Qin

Heterogeneous industrial agglomeration, technological innovation and haze pollution

Yazhou Liu, Tiantian Ren, Lijun Liu, Jinlan Ni and Yingkai Yin

A screening perspective on experimental zones

Chen Cheng and Yiqing Xing

In the crossfire: Multinational companies and consumer boycotts

Wei Shi and Jingran Wei

How does people’s liberation army related business closure affect the local economy?

Haozhe Han and Shuo Zhang

Inputs, networks and quality-upgrading: Evidence from China in India

Alexander Copestake and Wenzhang Zhang

Effectiveness and risk of initial carbon quota allocation principle under the uncertainty of the Chinese electricity market

Wang Zhaohua, Li Jingyun, Lu Bin, Wang Bo, Zhang Bin, Sun Kaining and Fan Mao

China's monetary policy surprises and corporate real investment

Dong Lu, Huoqing Tang and Chengsi Zhang

Extreme temperatures and out-of-pocket medical expenditure: Evidence from China

Xue Li, Russell Smyth and Yao Yao

Financial reforms and capital accumulation in developing economies: New data and evidence

Zidong An

The externalities of preschool attendees in middle school classes

Haifeng Zhang, Lijun Zang, Mingzhi Mao, Jiqiang Guo and Chunchao Wang

Assessing the role of economic globalization on energy efficiency: Evidence from a global perspective

Fengqin Liu, Jae-yeon Sim, Huaping Sun, Bless Kofi Edziah, Philip Adom and Shunfeng Song

Gender peer effects on students’ educational and occupational expectations

Yiyang Luo and Songtao Yang

Natural disasters and high-stakes exam performance: Evidence from the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake

Wei Lu, Po Yang, Shilin Zheng and Sen Zhou

Does the early bird catch the worm? Evidence and interpretation on the long-term impact of school entry age in China

Chuanyi Guo, Xuening Wang and Chen Meng

Labor price distortion and export product markups: Evidence from China labor market

Wang Mingyi, Zhang Zhongyi, Liu Xiaoyu and Xu Siwei

Working hours and job satisfaction in China: A threshold analysis

Hongyun Zheng, Puneet Vatsa, Wanglin Ma and Xiaoshou Zhou

Internet use and fertility behavior among reproductive-age women in China

Peng Nie, Xu Peng and Tianyuan Luo

The adoption and use of mobile payment: Determinants and relationship with bank access☆

Ke Song, Peizhang Wu and Sarah Zou

Do men and women discriminate against women for the same reason? Evidence from China

Jianfei Shen and Qiqi Wang

Interdependent investments in attached and movable assets under insecure land rights

Meilin Ma

Struggle for survival in credit crunch: The effect of interest rate deregulation in China

Si Xu, Xiaoyi He and Chunfang Cao

Top incomes and income polarisation in China

Chen Zhang, Yangcheng Yu and Qinghai Li

The long-term and intergenerational effects of early-life hunger experience on human capital and labor market outcomes

Yuxin Yao and Yi Zhang

Growing pains for others: Using holidays to identify the pollution spillover between China and South Korea

Shaoshuai Li, Zhigang Li, Jinlan Ni and Jia Yuan

Volume 76, issue C, 2022

Broadband infrastructure and digital financial inclusion in rural China

Geng Niu, XiaoShu Jin, Qi Wang and Yang Zhou

Impact of the US–China trade war on resource allocation: Evidence from China's land supply

Jidong Yang, Bin Huang, Qijing Yang and Yulong Zhou

The impact of message framing on uptake of vision health services for rural students in China: A randomized control trial

Yunyun Zhang, Hongyu Guan, Kang Du and Juerong Huang

Financial permeation and rural poverty reduction Nexus: Further insights from counties in China

Xiuhua Wang, Yipeng Wang and Yaxiong Zhao

The impact of technology identification policy on firm innovation: Evidence from China

Hongsheng Fang, Xiao Wu, Jim Huangnan Shen and Lexin Zhao

Looking good by doing good: CEO attractiveness and corporate philanthropy11We thank the co-editor (Suqin Ge) and the referees for many valuable comments and suggestions. We thank Huimin Li and Jing Shi for their valuable comments. We acknowledge the financial support of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant numbers 72272157, 71872186, 71790603) and the Fundamental Research Funds for Central Universities of Sun Yat-Sen University (Grant number 22wklj03)

Leng Ling, Danglun Luo, Xiaoxia Li and Xintong Pan

Land finance in China: Analysis and review

Joseph Gyourko, Yang Shen, Jing Wu and Rongjie Zhang

The rising child penalty in China

Xiaoyao Zhou, Jingjing Ye, Hao Li and Hongyan Yu

The minimum wage and the financialization of firms: Evidence from China

Pengcheng Du, Yi Zheng and Shuxun Wang

Fleshing out the olive? Observations on income polarization in China since 1981

Martin Ravallion and Shaohua Chen

Digital finance and household carbon emissions in China

Xiaodi Qin, Haitao Wu and Rongrong Li

Sibling spillovers in rural China: A story of sisters

Cynthia Bansak, Xuan Jiang and Guanyi Yang

Development zones and green innovation: Evidence from Chinese listed companies

Zhong Xie, Wenling Lu, Jing Yu, Yanrui Wu and Qing Liu

Does a “bad apple” spoil the bunch? The impact of low-achieving students on non-cognitive outcomes

Li Li and Liqiu Zhao

Does winning a venture competition encourage entrepreneurial exploration? Evidence from China

Suting Hong, Guangwei Li, Wangshuai Wang and Zhiqi Zhao

Environmental regulation and outward foreign direct investment: Evidence from China

Yan Dong, Jinhuan Tian and Qiang Wen

Volume 75, issue C, 2022

Bubble into reallocation: How bubbles improve capital allocation in China

Jinfeng Ge and Yangzhou Yuan

The misalignments in Chinese real effective exchange rate from 1994 to 2020: A counterfactual analysis

Yichen Gao, Hongjun Li and Qi Li

Judicial institutions, local protection and market segmentation: Evidence from the establishment of interprovincial circuit tribunals in China

Da Zhao, Ao Yu and Jingyuan Guo

Riding out the COVID-19 storm: How government policies affect SMEs in China

Joy Chen, Zijun Cheng, Robin Kaiji Gong and Jinlin Li

The impact of COVID-19 on employment and income of vocational graduates in China: Evidence from surveys in January and July 2020

Xiao Liang, Scott Rozelle and Hongmei Yi

Can central bank communication effectively guide the monetary policy expectation of the public?

Jianguo Liu, Liya Liu, Min Min, Shuying Tan and Fanqing Zhao

Earnings mobility during labor market reforms in urban China

Gary S. Fields, Xin Meng and Yang Song

Are export tax rebates patronage for Chinese firms? An analysis of productivity

Teng Zhang, Shu Xu and Shuoxun Zhang

Understanding the investment of renewable energy firms in the face of economic policy uncertainty – Micro-evidence from listed companies in China

Boqiang Lin and Minyang Li

Digital finance and investment of micro and small enterprises: Evidence from China

Aijie Lin, Yulei Peng and Xi Wu

Does school shutdown increase inequality in academic performance? Evidence from COVID-19 pandemic in China

Haoye Liao, Sen Ma and Hao Xue

Education signaling, effort investments, and the market's expectations: Theory and experiment on China's higher education expansion

Zedong Hao and Yun Wang

The effectiveness and costs of nonpharmaceutical interventions for COVID-19 containment: A border discontinuous difference-in-difference approach

Yongheng Deng, Lina Meng and Yinggang Zhou

Tax Incentives, On-the-job Training, and Human Capital Accumulation: Evidence from China

Binbin Tian, Chao Lin, Wenwen Zhang and Chen Feng

MULAN in the name: Causes and consequences of gendered Chinese names

Yana Huang and Tianyu Wang

Can robots reshape gender role attitudes?

Ruiyu Wang, Jinchuan Shi and Bing Ye