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 72, issue C, 2022

The effect of job displacement on labor market outcomes: Evidence from the Chinese state-owned enterprise reform

Xinping Tian, Jinquan Gong and Zhe Zhai

Greening of Chinese industrial sector: Stakeholders' responsiveness to non-governmental environmental monitoring

Shaohui Liu, Chuanjiang Liu and Mian Yang

Higher education reform in China: A comprehensive review of policymaking, implementation, and outcomes since 1978

Weiyan Xiong, Jiale Yang and Wenqin Shen

The driving forces of China's business cycles: Evidence from an estimated DSGE model with housing and banking

Xinyu Ge, Xiao-Lin Li, Yong Li and Yan Liu

The innovation of family firms in China: New evidence from the China employer-employee survey

Qing Li, Dezhuang Hu and Tang Li

Environmental (de)centralization and local environmental governance: Evidence from a natural experiment in China

Gao Chen, Jian Xu and Yu Qi

Internal labor markets with two types of promotion and two tiers of salary: theory and evidence from China

Kun Jiang and Susheng Wang

Distance effects and home bias in patient choice on the Internet: Evidence from an online healthcare platform in China

Qiulin Chen, Duo Xu, Hongqiao Fu and Winnie Yip

Depressed access to formal finance and the use of credit card debt in Chinese SMEs

Nana Xu, Yan Yuan and Zhao Rong

How the COVID-19 pandemic affects job sentiments of rural teachers

Haizheng Li, Mingyu Ma and Qinyi Liu

Invisible enemy: The health impact of ozone

Dongmin Kong, Junwei Liang and Chenhao Liu

Like father, like son? Parental input, access to higher education, and social mobility in China

Xiang Gu, Sheng Hua, Tom McKenzie and Yanqiao Zheng

The effect of gasoline prices on suburban housing values in China

Tong Zhang and Paul Burke

Clan culture and risk-taking of Chinese enterprises

Liangxiong Huang, Minghui Ma and Xianbin Wang

New “useless education theory”: Highly educated parents' expectations for their children's education—Evidence from the one-child policy

Yang Liu and Yaowu Yang

Income inequality and happiness: Which inequalities matter in China?

John Knight and Ramani Gunatilaka

Managerial R&D hands-on experience, state ownership, and corporate innovation

Yafei Li, William Mbanyele and Jinping Sun

China's domestic production networks

Quanrun Chen, Yuning Gao, Jiansuo Pei, Gaaitzen de Vries and Fei Wang

The effect of education on health and health behaviors: Evidence from the college enrollment expansion in China

Hongqiao Fu, Run Ge, Jialin Huang and Xinzheng Shi

Volume 71, issue C, 2022

“The better you feel, the harder you fall”: Health perception biases and mental health among Chinese adults during the COVID-19 pandemic

Peng Nie, Lu Wang, Davide Dragone, Haiyang Lu, Alfonso Sousa-Poza and Nicolas Ziebarth

Deflating China's nominal GDP: 2004–2018

Pingyao Lai and Tian Zhu

Intergenerational education transmission in China: The gender dimension

Yujia Huo and Jane Golley

Mobile payment and Chinese rural household consumption

Chunkai Zhao, Yaqian Wu and Jianhao Guo

Fiscal stress and the formation of zombie firms: Evidence from China

Guowei Cai, Xuejiao Zhang and Hao Yang

COVID-19, firm exposure, and firm value: A tale of two lockdowns

Haoyuan Ding, Haichao Fan and Shu Lin

The informal economy at times of COVID-19 pandemic

Feng Guo, Yiping Huang, Jingyi Wang and Xue Wang

Economic policy uncertainty and industrial pollution: The role of environmental supervision by local governments

Qiang Wen and Teng Zhang

Measuring the provincial supply of higher education institutions in China

Mihály Borsi, Octasiano Valerio Mendoza and Flavio Comim

The macroeconomic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic: A SIR-DSGE model approach

Ying Tung Chan

Pray, vote, and money: The double-edged sword effect of religions on rural political participation in China

Pinghan Liang and Shukang Xiao

The effects of local government leadership turnover on entrepreneurial behavior

Zhiqiang Dong, Xiaobing Wang, Tianhua Zhang and Yuejun Zhong

Does villager social capital hinder poverty targeting? Evidence from poverty-stricken county of Western China

Xiaoyu Cheng, Jianying Wang and Kevin Z. Chen

Promoting pro-poor growth through infrastructure investment: Evidence from the Targeted Poverty Alleviation program in China

Han Xiao, Xinye Zheng and Lunyu Xie

Communist Party branch and labour rights: Evidence from Chinese entrepreneurs

Zhiming Cheng

The impact of lockdown on air pollution: Evidence from an instrument

Linyuan Huang, Rui Xie and Guohao Yang

Higher education expansion and supply of teachers in China

Fengyan Dai, Lei Xu and Yu Zhu

Role of professionalism in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: Does a public health or medical background help?

Xun Li, Weizheng Lai, Qianqian Wan and Xi Chen

Is care by grandparents or parents better for children's non-cognitive skills? Evidence on locus of control from China

Xiang Ao, Xuan Chen and Zhong Zhao

The effect of teacher's concurrent administrative position on students' academic outcomes: Evidence and mechanisms

Yucheng Sun and Xianbo Zhou

The expansion of higher education and household saving in China

Christopher Bollinger, Xiaozhou Ding and Steven Lugauer

Effects of school closure on household labor supply: Evidence from rural China

Gang Xie and Lei Zhang

Are China's trade interests overestimated? Evidence from firms’ importing behavior and pollution emissions

Ling-Yun He and Geng Huang

Hidden inequality in household electricity consumption: Measurement and determinants based on large-scale smart meter data

Haitao Chen, Bin Zhang and Zhaohua Wang

BT-to-VAT reform and firm productivity: Evidence from a quasi-experiment in China

Jinliang Yu and Yu Qi

Gender identity, preference, and relative income within households

Yucong Zhao, Bing Ye and Jinchuan Shi

University education, homeownership and housing wealth

Haining Wang, Zhiming Cheng, Russell Smyth, Gong Sun, Jie Li and Wangshuai Wang

Volume 70, issue C, 2021

Does learning longer improve student achievement? Evidence from online education of graduating students in a high school during COVID-19 period

Yue Zhang, Guochang Zhao and Bo Zhou

Clan culture and family ownership concentration: Evidence from China

Jiameng Cheng, Yanke Dai, Shu Lin and Haichun Ye

Impact of public research and development and extension on agricultural productivity in China from 1990 to 2013

Haiyan Deng, Yanhong Jin, Carl Pray, Ruifa Hu, Enjun Xia and Hong Meng

Effects of cohort size on college premium: Evidence from China's higher education expansion

Chenxu Hu and Christopher Bollinger

Unexpected opportunity for girls: Earthquake, disaster relief and female education in China's poor counties

Xinyan Liu and Yunjiao Xu

Accents, group identity, and trust behaviors: Evidence from Singapore

Mongoljin Batsaikhan, Tai-Sen He and Yupeng Li

CEO experience and corporate financing decisions: Evidence from a natural experiment in China

Ying Hao, Yuxiu Huang, Xuegang Cui, Qiang Liu and Yuwen Zhang

Rural entrepreneurship and job creation: the hybrid identity of village-cadre-entrepreneurs

Jing Dong, Wanyu Xu and Jun Cha

Children's marriage and parental subjective well-being: Evidence from China

Dongjie Tao, Lingyun He, Jonathan Hamilton and Ding Xu

Old, not yet rich? The impact of population aging on export upgrading in developing countries

Feifei Wu, Hongna Yang, Bo Gao and Yan Gu