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中国经济评论 Pub Date : 2024-08-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2024.102253

Junxun Dai , Yan Liu , Wei Yuan , Xin Zou

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Institutional quarantine and economic preferences: Experimental evidence from China 制度检疫与经济偏好：来自中国的实验证据

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中国经济评论 Pub Date : 2024-08-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2024.102251

Yanan Zhang , Jianbiao Li , Qian Cao , Xiaofei Niu

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Impact of a health system vertical integration program on patient expenditures and healthcare utilization: Evidence from county hospitals in East China 医疗系统纵向整合项目对患者支出和医疗利用率的影响：来自华东地区县级医院的证据

IF 5.2 1区经济学

中国经济评论 Pub Date : 2024-08-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2024.102250

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

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The impact of digital infrastructure on the geographical supply chain layout of firms —— Evidence from Chinese microdata 数字基础设施对企业地理供应链布局的影响--来自中国微观数据的证据

IF 5.2 1区经济学

中国经济评论 Pub Date : 2024-08-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2024.102249

Jie Ji, Ying Wang

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Online markets, offline happiness: E-commerce development and subjective well-being in rural China 线上市场，线下幸福：中国农村电子商务发展与主观幸福感

IF 5.2 1区经济学

中国经济评论 Pub Date : 2024-08-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2024.102247

Binhui Wei , Chunkai Zhao , Mingzhong Luo

{"title":"Online markets, offline happiness: E-commerce development and subjective well-being in rural China","authors":"Binhui Wei , Chunkai Zhao , Mingzhong Luo","doi":"10.1016/j.chieco.2024.102247","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chieco.2024.102247","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Employing a quasi-natural experiment of the National Rural E-commerce Comprehensive Demonstration County (NRECDC) policy, our research aimed to explore the causal effect of e-commerce development and residents' subjective well-being (SWB) in rural China. By adopting the data of China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) from 2014 to 2020 and using a staggered difference-in-differences (DID) method, we found that rural e-commerce development resulted in an average increase of 2.40% in happiness scores. This positive effect can be explained by absolute material welfare enhancement, relative disparity reduction, and social capital accumulation. Further evidence suggests that e-commerce users are more likely to benefit from the NRECDC policy and that the synergistic effect of digital finance and e-commerce contributes to rural residents' SWB. However, we revealed that the potential digital divide effect in e-commerce development, due to technological barriers and self-digital exclusion, has not enhanced the SWB of some relatively disadvantaged groups in rural China. Our findings enrich the research field of digital well-being and shed light on the potential digital divide effects of digital tools such as e-commerce in rural China.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48285,"journal":{"name":"中国经济评论","volume":"87 ","pages":"Article 102247"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141963077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Digitalization of industries and labor mobility in China 中国的产业数字化与劳动力流动

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中国经济评论 Pub Date : 2024-08-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2024.102248

Heting Wang, Huijuan Wang, Rong Guan

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Corrigendum to “The political economy of COVID-19 in China” [China Economic Review, Volume 85, 2024, 102143] 对《中国 COVID-19 的政治经济学》的更正[《中国经济评论》，第 85 卷，2024 期，102143]

IF 5.2 1区经济学

中国经济评论 Pub Date : 2024-07-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2024.102242

Qi Li , Zhiting Yuan , Ran Tao

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How digital finance shapes residents' health: Evidence from China 数字金融如何影响居民健康？来自中国的证据

IF 5.2 1区经济学

中国经济评论 Pub Date : 2024-07-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2024.102246

Liping Liao , Minzhe Du

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Price of going green: The employment effects of the environmental protection tax in China 绿色的代价：中国环保税的就业效应

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中国经济评论 Pub Date : 2024-07-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2024.102244

Shuling Lu, Qijing Yang

{"title":"Price of going green: The employment effects of the environmental protection tax in China","authors":"Shuling Lu, Qijing Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.chieco.2024.102244","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chieco.2024.102244","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Compared with command-and-control regulations, it is less known about the labor market consequences of environmental taxes. This study examines the employment impact of the 2018 Environmental Protection Tax (EPT). Applying a triple-difference framework, we empirically establish the employment-suppressing consequence of EPT, which is primarily attributable to output reductions and green technological advances. Moreover, our analysis highlights a size-dependent strategy adopted by companies to navigate the escalating environmental costs: while small companies opt for production downsizing, larger counterparts tend to invest more in technical abatement initiatives. Heterogeneity analysis reveals that the unemployment effect is more pronounced in companies facing higher financial constraints and greater public environmental attention, with low-skilled workers bearing the brunt, albeit without significant wage inequality. Further, we find that government green subsidies can mute this job-reduction effect. Our study illuminates an unintended incidence of environmental policy costs on labor in China and underscores comprehensive policy evaluation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48285,"journal":{"name":"中国经济评论","volume":"87 ","pages":"Article 102244"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141841051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The effect of government-firm relationship on pollution reduction: The role of official performance appraisal 政府与企业的关系对减少污染的影响：官员绩效考核的作用

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中国经济评论 Pub Date : 2024-07-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2024.102243

Gaoyi Lin , Changtuo Xu , Hailin Chen , Kai Tang

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