PDo Cross-Border E-Commerce Pilot Zones Improve Regional Economic Resilience? Evidence from Chinese Cities

Description:This dataset supports the manuscript “Do Cross-Border E-Commerce Pilot Zones Improve Regional Economic Resilience? Evidence from Chinese Cities.” The study evaluates whether China’s Cross-Border E-Commerce Comprehensive Pilot Zones strengthen regional economic resilience using city-level panel data for 280 prefecture-level and above Chinese cities from 2009 to 2023. The deposit contains a processed regression-ready city-year panel dataset, policy-coding documentation, a variable dictionary, source documentation, a data-audit file, and Stata replication code. The baseline analytical sample contains 3,854 city-year observations. The alternative composite-resilience outcome Res1 is available for 3,360 observations, and the business-environment channel variable Env is available for 1,649 observations. The baseline treatment variable CBEC corresponds to the treatment variable used in the manuscript’s main regression tables. For transparency, the dataset also includes official_cbec_DID, a stricter approval-based treatment indicator constructed from State Council CBEC approval documents, together with policy-coding audit fields. Researchers reproducing the manuscript’s reported baseline estimates should use CBEC unless the manuscript has been revised to adopt the stricter official-approval coding as the main treatment variable. The dataset uses city-level secondary data only. It contains no individual-level data, confidential data, survey identifiers, or personally identifiable information. Original statistical yearbook materials and author-supplied raw working files are not redistributed as raw inputs. The deposit provides the processed analytical data and documentation required to reproduce the reported analyses. Keywords:Cross-border e-commerce; CBEC pilot zones; regional economic resilience; digital trade; place-based policy; difference-in-differences; staggered DID; Chinese cities; replication data Suggested license:Use a license consistent with the redistribution terms of the processed analytical data and code. If using only processed analytical data and code, CC BY 4.0 is a common Zenodo default; if redistribution rights for third-party source materials are uncertain, do not redistribute raw yearbook materials and document the source restrictions in the record description.