Report NEP-CNA-2026-08-24

This is the archive for NEP-CNA, a report on new working papers in the area of China. Muriel Zheng Fang issued this report. It is usually issued weekly.

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• Stephan Heblich & Marlon Seror & Hao Xu & Yanos Zylberberg, 2026, "Industrial clusters in the long run: Evidence from Million-Rouble plants in China," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 26188, Jul.
• Hu, Yan & Maurer, Stephan, 2025, "Minority bureaucrats' networks and career progression: Evidence from the Chinese Maritime Customs Service," Working Papers, University of Konstanz, Cluster of Excellence "The Politics of Inequality. Perceptions, Participation and Policies", number 50, DOI: 10.48787/kops/352-2-1skfe88kcw4yc1.
• Song, Jing & Min, Shi, 2026, "Decentralization and Rural Welfare: Evaluating the Effects of the Empowering and Strengthening Counties Reform on Farmers' Income in China," 2026 Annual Meeting, July 26 - 28, 2026, Kansas City, Missouri, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, number 404762, DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.404762.
• Long, Joe & Medici, Carlo & Qian, Nancy & Tabellini, Marco, 2024, "The Impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act on the Economic Development of the Western U.S," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19541, Sep.
• Zhang, Jingna, 2026, "The Impact of China's New Rural Pension Scheme on Farmland Transfer: From Relational Exchanges to Formal Market Contracts," 2026 Annual Meeting, July 26 - 28, 2026, Kansas City, Missouri, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, number 404387, DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.404387.
• Liang, Xiaomeng & Yang, Chenyujing & Xue, Yongji, 2026, "How Do Ecological Restoration Programs Shape Grain Production? Evidence from China’s Three-North Shelter Forest Program," SocArXiv, Center for Open Science, number jmdz7_v1, Jul, DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/jmdz7_v1.
• Loren Brandt & Chaoran Chen & Xiaoyun Wei, 2026, "Labor Force Participation and Structural Change," Working Papers, University of Toronto, Department of Economics, number tecipa-826, Aug.
• Bobbie, Kelvin, 2026, "How Two Trade Wars Have Rewired Soybean Markets: Price Discovery, Risk Spillovers,and Liquidity Effects," 2026 Annual Meeting, July 26 - 28, 2026, Kansas City, Missouri, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, number 404348, DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.404348.
• Marina Glushenkova & Marios Zachariadis, 2026, "From Street Stalls to Screens: The Price Integration of China’s Cities," University of Cyprus Working Papers in Economics, University of Cyprus Department of Economics, number 02-2026, Aug.
• Zhang, Chunlan & Zhao, Jinsong, 2026, "Reversing the Biodiversity Impact of Urban Expansion: Evidence from China's Land Market," 2026 Annual Meeting, July 26 - 28, 2026, Kansas City, Missouri, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, number 404498, DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.404498.
• Liu, Jianfeng & Ma, Xiaochen & Ma, Yubei & Wan, Yue, 2026, "Health Consequences of Late-Life Widowhood: The Protective Role of Intergenerational Co-Residence in China," 2026 Annual Meeting, July 26 - 28, 2026, Kansas City, Missouri, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, number 404596, DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.404596.
• Rodriguez Castelan, Carlos & Vazquez, Emmanuel & Winkler, Hernan, 2026, "Trade Diversion and Jobs : Evidence from Mexican Municipalities," Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank, number 11419, Jun.
• Liu, Huilin & Harou, Aurelie, 2026, "Fire under land reform: Evidence from crop residue burning in China," 2026 Annual Meeting, July 26 - 28, 2026, Kansas City, Missouri, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, number 404438, DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.404438.
• Chen, Wei & Wang, Xinyue & Yu, Jialing & Chen, Junliang, 2026, "Roads and Cropland: Infrastructure Expansion and Cropland Conversion in Rural China," 2026 Annual Meeting, July 26 - 28, 2026, Kansas City, Missouri, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, number 404757, DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.404757.
• Yun-Long Zhang & Jia-Ning Kang & Xiaoming Kan & Lan-Cui Liu & Zhimin Huang & Song Peng & Biying Yu & Yi-Ming Wei, 2026, "Technology interactions reshape the economics of China's coal power decarbonization," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2608.11404, Aug.
• Seth G. Benzell & Laurence J. Kotlikoff & Victor Yifan Ye, 2026, "The Global Transition – The Impact of Demographics and AI on Economic Power," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 35618, Aug.
• Xu, Zhaoyang & Zhu, Lei & , KuoRayMao & Xue, Yongji, 2026, "Institutional logics in China's rural solar transition and their impacts on energy justice for vulnerable communities," SocArXiv, Center for Open Science, number 56j9h_v1, Jul, DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/56j9h_v1.
• Hugo Oriola & Jamel Saadaoui, 2026, "Geopolitical Alignment and the Catalytic Effects of International Financial Institution Lending," CAMA Working Papers, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University, number 2026-69, Aug.
• Ruiqi Sun, 2026, "Blocking the Giants: Theory and Evidence from the Great Firewall," CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo, number 12913.
• Zihao Zhang & Yuanbo Zhang & Xiaolei Ma & Yuan Liao, 2026, "Unequal urban capacities for mobility adaptation under fuel-price shocks," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2608.12281, Aug, revised Sep 2026.
• , KuoRayMao & Zhang, Qian & Truslove, Micaela, 2026, "Grassland conservation and environmental inequality in Inner Mongolia, China," SocArXiv, Center for Open Science, number pcz54_v2, Jul, DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/pcz54_v2.
• Bhattarai, Keshav & Adhikari, Ambika P., 2026, "Mountain Development in Nepal: Settlements, Infrastructure, and Economic Transformation," SocArXiv, Center for Open Science, number kjhq3_v1, Jul, DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/kjhq3_v1.
• Fu, Liang & Li, Gucheng, 2026, "Does Smart Agricultural Technology Improve Rice Production Performance? Evidence from Rural China," 2026 Annual Meeting, July 26 - 28, 2026, Kansas City, Missouri, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, number 404714, DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.404714.
• Hiroyuki Yamada, 2026, "When the Air Doesn't Move the Data: The Thermal Inversion Instrument in Developing Countries," Keio-IES Discussion Paper Series, Institute for Economics Studies, Keio University, number DP2026-018, Aug.
• Chung, Andy & Zhang, Junsen, 2026, "Sleeping Investment: A Life-Cycle Hypothesis," GLO Discussion Paper Series, Global Labor Organization (GLO), number 1802.
• Fabrice Kampfen & Owen O'Donnell & Xuezheng Qin, 2026, "Family Health Spillovers: A Multidimensional Regression Discontinuity Design," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers, Tinbergen Institute, number 26-049/V, Aug.
• Liu, Xuan, 2026, "Thirsty Cities, Salty Fields: The Environmental Cost of Large-scale Water Infrastructure," 2026 Annual Meeting, July 26 - 28, 2026, Kansas City, Missouri, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, number 404732, DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.404732.
• Bai, Jie & Barwick, Panle & Cao, Shengmao & Li, Shanjun, 2024, "Quid Pro Quo, Knowledge Spillovers, and Industrial Quality Upgrading: Evidence from the Chinese Auto Industry," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19440, Sep.
• Xu, Chenguang & Chao, Zenghui & Gu, Wenhao & Zhang, Jun, 2026, "When Subsidies Arrive Late: Payment Delays and Agricultural Technology Adoption," 2026 Annual Meeting, July 26 - 28, 2026, Kansas City, Missouri, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, number 404717, DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.404717.
• Junjie Li & Yukitoshi Matsushita, 2026, "Efficient difference-in-differences estimation under partial interference with incremental propensity score policies," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2607.19925, Jul, revised Sep 2026.
• Adsera, Alicia & Arenas, Andreu & Boix, Carles, 2026, "The Value of Income, Safety and Elections across the World," IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER, number 18844, Jul.
• Jiahao Weng, 2026, "Herding, Momentum, and Reversal in China's A-Share Market: An Agent-Based Network Model with Information Diffusion," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2607.27063, Jul.
• Scholz, Tobias, 2026, "India's space policy: Interests, international cooperation and conflicting goals," SWP Research Papers, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), German Institute for International and Security Affairs, number 9/2026, DOI: 10.18449/2026RP09.
• Wang, Huajin & Mallory, Mindy, 2026, "Soybean Futures Shocks and Vertical Price Transmission: Evidence from the 2018–2019 U.S.–China Trade War," 3rd ASEAN University Symposium for Sustainable Food Systems, Faculty of Agriculture, Chiang Mai University, Thailand, May 21-22, 2026, Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), number 404811, DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.404811.
• Goldberg, Pinelopi Koujianou & Juhász, Réka & Lane, Nathan & Lo Forte, Giulia & Thurk, Jeff, 2024, "Industrial Policy in the Global Semiconductor Sector," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19402, Aug.
• Xu, Chenguang & He, Xinyue, 2026, "Taming Volatility, Feeding Crashes: Evidence from Algorithmic Trading in China's Agricultural Futures Markets," 2026 Annual Meeting, July 26 - 28, 2026, Kansas City, Missouri, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, number 404354, DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.404354.