Stark, Oded; Pang, Yu; Fan, Simon - In: World Scientific Handbook of Global Migration, Volume …, (pp. 199-225). 2024
-to-urban migration, whereas urban pollution deters rural-to-urban migration. By means of a general equilibrium model we study the … and mitigating urban pollution in the presence of endogenous rural-to-urban migration. We show that without government … intervention, although rural-to-urban migration contributes to agglomeration economies, it does not improve social welfare because …