Journal of Comparative Economics

1977 - 2025

Current editor(s): D. Berkowitz and G. Roland

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Volume 53, issue 1, 2025

The cultural origins of family firms pp. 1-24

Jian Xie and Song Yuan

The aggregate and distributional effects of immigration restrictions: The 1920s Quota Acts and the Great Black Migration pp. 25-55

Bin Xie

Economics of majoritarian identity politics pp. 56-78

Rohit Ticku and Raghul S. Venkatesh

Land reform and health endowments at birth pp. 79-95

Yawen Ding, Xiaobing Wang and Huayu Xu

Pandemic lockdowns and trust in local government in China pp. 96-117

Yucong Zhao, Ting Wang and Bing Ye

Foreign-assisted infrastructure and local employment: Evidence from China's aid to Africa pp. 118-138

Jiafu An, Shiqi Guo and Haicheng Jiang

Organizing regulatory structure and local air quality: Evidence from the environmental vertical management reform in China pp. 139-164

Pei Li, Kaihao Liu, Yi Lu and Lu Peng

Tit-for-tat in antidumping: How did China fight its antidumping wars with its trading partners? pp. 165-181

Wonkyung Lee, Hong Ma and Yuan Xu

Land reform and illegal adoption of children pp. 182-208

Yanjun Li, Yu Bai and Masaki Nakabayashi

Globalization of capital flows and the (in)disciplining of nations pp. 209-226

Arthur Blouin, Sayantan Ghosal and Sharun W. Mukand

Economic effects of (non-)compliance with constitutions pp. 227-242

Anna Lewczuk and Katarzyna Metelska-Szaniawska

The making of the Greek fiscal state, 1833-1939 pp. 243-271

Franciscos Koutentakis

Liberalizing reforms do not cause suicide: Causal estimation using matching, 1980–2019 pp. 272-289

Tibor Rutar and Minea Rutar

The effects of fiscal rules on budget deficit: Does democracy matter? pp. 290-315

Bernard Nomo Beyala and Jean Pierre Fouda Owoundi

Volume 52, issue 3, 2024

Changes to our editorial board pp. 591-591

Ruben Enikolopov, Timur Kuran and Hongbin Li

Citizen empowerment through land reform pp. 592-613

Pablo Jimenez-Ayora, Devashish Mitra, Lan Tong and Mehmet Ulubasoglu

The social behavior of immigrants during natural disasters: Lessons from the United States pp. 614-633

Veeshan Rayamajhee and Jayash Paudel

Bureaucracy-business relationship, corruption and the implications for marketization pp. 634-644

Shaoqing Huang, Weisi Xie and Xiaoshu Xu

Growing up amid armed conflict: Women's attitudes toward domestic violence pp. 645-662

Giulia La Mattina and Olga N. Shemyakina

Voting from abroad: Assessing the impact of local turnout on migrants’ voting behavior pp. 663-678

Divya Dev, Rubén Poblete-Cazenave and Alessandro Toppeta

The compulsory education law, female education and fertility: An empirical study in China pp. 679-696

Shenglong Liu, Xiaoming Zhang and Shaojie Zhou

Closing the digital divide: The impact of teachers’ ICT use on student achievement in China pp. 697-713

Junjie Hong, Wanlin Liu and Qing Zhang

Individualism and the legal status of prostitution pp. 714-732

Lewis S. Davis and Astghik Mavisakalyan

Volume 52, issue 2, 2024

Hedging desperation: How kinship networks reduced cannibalism in historical China pp. 361-382

Zhiwu Chen, Zhan Lin and Xiaoming Zhang

The growth of firms, markets and rents: Evidence from China pp. 383-399

Daniel Berkowitz and Shuichiro Nishioka

Misinformation technology: Internet use and political misperceptions in Africa pp. 400-433

Joël Cariolle, Yasmine Elkhateeb and Mathilde Maurel

Social Status Inequality and Populism pp. 434-444

Mark Gradstein

Transparency and grand corruption: Lessons from the Colombia school meals program pp. 445-462

Philip Keefer and Benjamin Roseth

On the origins of national identity. German nation-building after Napoleon pp. 463-477

Felix Kersting and Nikolaus Wolf

A theory of symbiotic corruption pp. 478-494

Xuezheng Chen, Lin Gui, Tao Wu and Jun Zhang

Religious symbols in the public sphere and development of the third sector: Some evidence from rural Poland pp. 495-508

Jan Fałkowski and Przemysław J. Kurek

Transition from plan to market: Imperfect regulations in the electricity sector of China pp. 509-533

Jing Cao, Mun Ho, Rong Ma and Yu Zhang

Online teaching, gender differences and education outcomes: Evidence from Chinese urban high schools during the COVID-19 pp. 534-553

Liu Yang and Lei Zhang

Group composition of income types and the absolute-relative framing of public good contributions pp. 554-567

Li Yutong, Wang Xianghong and Dai Zhixin

Migration networks, export shocks, and human capital acquisition: Evidence from China pp. 568-589

Shu Cai, Xinzheng Shi and Zhufeng Xu

Volume 52, issue 1, 2024

The effects of superstition on firms' investment behavior: Evidence from Vietnam, an irreligious country✰ pp. 1-27

Dai Van Pham

How can migration unequalize inheritance: Theory and insights from Bolivia pp. 28-53

Anne Michels and Jean-Philippe Platteau

Trust we lost: The impact of the Treuhand experience on political alienation in East Germany pp. 54-75

Kim Leonie Kellermann

Politician’s childhood experience and government policies: Evidence from the Chinese Great Famine pp. 76-92

Cheng Li, Le Wang and Junsen Zhang

Epidemics, disease control, and China’s long-term development pp. 93-112

Jun Wang and James Ang

The rise of superstar firms in the United States: The role of global sourcing pp. 113-144

Yifan Li and Zhuang Miao

Caselaw and England's economic performance during the Industrial Revolution: Data and evidence pp. 145-165

Peter Grajzl and Peter Murrell

Conservative Talk Radio and political persuasion in the US,1950–1970 pp. 166-182

Oliver Engist, Paul Matzko and Erik Merkus

Misallocation across establishment gender pp. 183-206

Ashantha Ranasinghe

Can arms breed peace? The consequence of arms imports from the US on civil wars pp. 207-229

Xiaoyu He and Yixin Mei

Leadership vacuum and urban economic development: Evidence from a transition country pp. 230-252

Maoyong Cheng, Yutong Yao, Justin Y. Jin, Khalid Nainar and Yu Meng

Law and economic behaviour pp. 253-270

Ranoua Bouchouicha, L’Haridon, Olivier and Ferdinand M. Vieider

Institutions, abilities, and the allocation of talent: Evidence from Russian regions pp. 271-296

Michael Alexeev, Timur Natkhov and Leonid Polishchuk

The (dis)connection between R&D and productivity in China: Policy implications of R&D tax credits pp. 297-320

Qing Liu, Larry Qiu, Xing Wei and Chaoqun Zhan

Hukou Matters: The heterogeneous local labor market effects of export expansions in China pp. 321-340

Shuaizhang Feng, Jingliang Lu and Leilei Shen

Risk-sharing and entrepreneurship pp. 341-360

Matilda Kilström and Paula Roth