Recently, the research achievement Strengthening the Rule of Law and Household Charitable Donations: Evidence from the Implementation of the Charity Law by the research team of Professor Zhang Jipeng from the School of Economics, Shandong University, was published in the 1st issue of 2025 of The Journal of World Economy, an authoritative economics journal. Zhang Heng, a doctoral candidate from the School of Economics, Shandong University, is the first author, and Professor Zhang Jipeng is the corresponding author.

Constructing and improving a coordinated institutional system of primary distribution, redistribution, and the third distribution is the key to eliminating polarization and achieving common prosperity. In recent years, China's charity industry has made considerable progress but still has huge development potential. The promulgation of the Charity Law of the People's Republic of China (hereinafter referred to as the Charity Law) in 2016 marked that the charity industry has entered a new era of law-based governance, realizing the strengthening of the rule of law in the charity sector.

Based on the data of China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) from 2014 to 2020, this paper takes the promulgation and implementation of the Charity Law as an exogenous shock and explores the relationship between strengthening the rule of law and household charitable donations from the perspective of social trust. Mechanism analysis shows that charity legislation improves household trust, optimizes the charitable donation environment, and thus promotes household donations. The research findings of this paper help to understand the impact of the promulgation of the Charity Law and provide policy implications for its subsequent revision and improvement.

Zhang Jipeng is a Professor and Outstanding Young and Middle-aged Scholar at the School of Economics, Shandong University. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pittsburgh, and a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Economics from Fudan University. He previously worked at Nanyang Technological University and Southwestern University of Finance and Economics. His main research directions are public economics and public finance, migration, regional and urban development.

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https://manu30.magtech.com.cn/sjjj/CN/Y2025/V48/I1/211