Telecommunications Externality on Migration : Evidence from Chinese Villages
Lu, Yi
This paper uses a unique natural experiment in Chinese villages to investigate whether access to telecommunications- in particular, landline phones-increases the likelihood of outmigration. By using regional and time variations in the installation of landline phones, the difference-in-differences estimation shows that access to landline phones increases the ratio of out-migrant workers by 2 percentage points, or about 50 percent of the sample mean in China. The results remain robust to a battery of validity checks. Furthermore, landline phones affect outmigration through two channels: information access to job opportunities and timely contact with left-behind family members. The findings underscore the positive migration externality of expanding telecommunications access in rural areas, especially in places where migration potential is large
Year of publication: |
2013
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Authors: | Lu, Yi |
Other Persons: | Xie, Huihua (contributor) ; Xu, Lixin Colin (contributor) ; Lu, Yi (contributor) |
Publisher: |
Washington, D.C : The World Bank |
Subject: | China | Telekommunikation | Telecommunications | Internationale Migration | International migration | Binnenwanderung | Internal migration |
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