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Development economics

Optimizing regional innovation ecosystems through actor-environment coevolution: A dynamic configurational analysis from a CAS perspective

Hanjun Pang, Yiling Jiang, Lei Wu, Lu Wang

published 21 Jan 2026

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Gatherer ancestry associated with national happiness

Matthew Frederick Basilico

published 21 Jan 2026

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The coupling coordination relationship and obstacle factors of public cultural services and economic development: A case study of 31 regions in China

Bingtao Xu, Zongye Gu, Ziwen Wang, Yaqiao Chen, Yanling Wang

published 20 Jan 2026

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Dynamic interdependence between consumer confidence and housing prices: Evidence from bootstrap rolling window causality tests

Yumei Guan, Chiwei Su, Yunfeng Wang

published 12 Jan 2026

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Spatial-temporal evolution and influencing factors of sudden environmental accidents in China from 2008 to 2022

Jun Yan, Shi Yan, Shihan He, Xinying Wang, Xuemei Yang, Xu Li

published 05 Jan 2026

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The comparative advantages of HSR, AIR, and HA on the coordinated regional economic development in China

Guo Dong Li, Wenshan Liu, You Zhi Xue, Sangbing Tsai

published 05 Jan 2026

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Evaluation of the operational efficiency and policy innovation of chinese happy farmhouse: From the perspective of business entities

Tian Tian, Hong Yan, Youli Xu

published 02 Jan 2026

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Research on the impact of population mobility on green total factor productivity: A perspective from sustainable development

Zuogong Wang, Xueli Yang, Linhai Wang, Zhuangfei Han

published 02 Jan 2026

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The influence of local officials’ promotion incentives on Public-Private Partnership project investment from a political-performance-driven perspective: Empirical evidence from China

Lisha Zhang, Mingyang Yue, Shasha Du, Rong Zheng, Tao Zhu, Boyuan Tang

published 02 Jan 2026

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Spatial divergence between self-rated health and body mass index in China: Exploring the role of economic status using China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) 2016 and 2020

Jiayin Liu, Peizhi Yu, Xiaoyu Ye, Yirui Yang, Zhixin Feng

published 31 Dec 2025

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Does local government tax competition promote industrial transformation and upgrading?

Yuxin Meng, Xiaodong Yang, Chunji Zheng

published 19 Dec 2025

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Constraints, mechanisms, and strategies for industry-education integration in vocational education: An empirical study

Bo Yu, Ruipu Li, Siyuan Zhang, Peng Mao, Chun Xu, Jing Shi, Gang Wu

published 18 Dec 2025

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Do government subsidies lead to TFP losses? A perspective on the formation of zombie firms

Ruying Chen, Danyu Liu, Lanyu Wu, Donghua Yu

published 18 Dec 2025

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