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 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

Volume 69, issue C, 2021

The non-linear effect of daily weather on economic performance: Evidence from China

Chengzheng Li, Jiajia Cong, Haiying Gu and Peng Zhang

College education and internal migration in China

Xiaozhou Ding

Unpacking the negative welfare effect of social media: Evidence from a large scale nationally representative time-use survey in China

Te Bao, Bin Liang and Yohanes Riyanto

Job creation or job relocation? Identifying the impact of China's special economic zones on local employment and industrial agglomeration

Liang Zheng

Human capital in the financial sector and corporate debt maturity

Guanchun Liu, Yuanyuan Liu and Chengsi Zhang

Are more children better than one? Evidence from a lab experiment of decision making

Xun Li and Yu Qiu

Investigating the linkages between industrial policies and M&A dynamics: Evidence from China

Elisa Barbieri, Manli Huang, Shenglei Pi, Chiara Pollio and Lauretta Rubini

How does housing wealth affect household consumption? Evidence from macro-data with special implications for China

Cheng Li and Ying Zhang

Housing wealth changes and entrepreneurship: Evidence from urban China

Shimeng Liu and Sisi Zhang

Understanding the role of homeownership in wealth inequality: Evidence from urban China (1995–2018)

Ping Zhang, Lin Sun and Chuanyong Zhang

How much did China's emergence as “the world's factory” contribute to its national income?

Yuwan Duan, Erik Dietzenbacher, Bart Los and Cuihong Yang

Does political incentive shape governments' disclosure of air pollution information?

Chenhao Liu and Dongmin Kong

Gone with the wind? Emissions of neighboring coal-fired power plants and local public health in China

Shuo Chen, Yiran Li, Guang Shi and Zhitao Zhu

Railway and trade in modern China: Evidence from the 1930s

Yibei Guo and Baomin Dong

Long-term effects of early-life exposure to tropical cyclones

Youhong Lin, Feng Liu and Peng Xu

Could government lead the way? Evaluation of China's patent subsidy policy on patent quality

Jia Lin, Ho-Mou Wu and Howei Wu

Alleviating multi-dimensional poverty through land transfer: Evidence from poverty-stricken villages in China

Chengyou Li, Yong Jiao, Tao Sun and Anran Liu

China's industrial revolution: A new perspective

Yi Wen

One country, many industries: Heterogeneity of Chinese OFDI motivations at meso level

Ping Lv, Louise Curran, Francesca Spigarelli and Elisa Barbieri

Removing the “Hats of Poverty”: Effects of ending the national poverty county program on fiscal expenditures

Jiong Zhu, Shouying Liu and Yihao Li

Problem-oriented approach to political economy

Shouying Liu and Xuefeng Xiong

Macroeconomic policy-induced wealth effects on Chinese foreign housing investments

Ying Fan and Tien Foo Sing

Industrialization, indoor and ambient air quality, and elderly mental health

Chon-Kit Ao, Yilin Dong and Pei-Fen Kuo

Local political corruption and M&As

Chun Liu, Yang Chen, Shanmin Li, Liang Sun and Mengjie Yang

The value-added tax reform and labor market outcomes: Firm-level evidence from China

Yuxiang Yang and Hongyong Zhang

Does crop insurance reduce pesticide usage? Evidence from China

Shuaizhang Feng, Yujie Han and Huanguang Qiu

The paradox of developing agricultural mechanization services in China: Supporting or kicking out smallholder farmers?

Tongwei Qiu, Xinjie Shi, Qinying He and Biliang Luo

Border pollution reduction in China: The role of livestock environmental regulations

Dan Pan and Huan Chen

Quality of life in Chinese cities

Tie Shi, Wenzhang Zhu and Shihe Fu

How does school district adjustment affect housing prices: An empirical investigation from Hangzhou, China

Ying Peng, Chuanhao Tian and Haizhen Wen

Inequality of opportunity in household income, China 2002–2018

Xiuna Yang, Björn Gustafsson and Terry Sicular

An eye for an eye? The trade and price effects of China's retaliatory tariffs on U.S. exports

Hong Ma, Jingxin Ning and Mingzhi (Jimmy) Xu

How do poverty alleviation coordinators help the impoverished in rural China? -- Evidence from the Chinese poor population tracking dataset

Yangyang Zhang, Xinye Zheng and Lunyu Xie

Measurement of relative welfare poverty and its impact on happiness in China: Evidence from CGSS

Jinxian Wang, Chen Wang, Sihao Li and Zhi Luo

How China's accession to the WTO affects global welfare?

Haichao Fan, Xiang Gao and Lina Zhang

Import competition and the gender gap in labor force participation: Evidence from China

Zhen Yu, Xiaoling Wu, Meng Li and Rufei Guo

Social trust and food scandal exposure: Evidence from China

Mengmeng Guo, Jinge Liu and Jianyu Yu