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then used to evaluate how changes to city migration policies and land supply regulations affect the speed of urbanization … uniform would promote urbanization but also would contribute to larger house price dispersion …
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We aim to quantify the role of social networks in job-related migration. With over 130 million rural labors migrating to the city each year, China is experiencing the largest internal migration in the human history. Using instrumental variables in the 2006 China Agricultural Census, we find that...
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This paper studies the welfare effects of encouraging rural-urban migration in the developing world. To do so, we build a dynamic incomplete-markets model of migration in which heterogenous agents face seasonal income fluctuations, stochastic income shocks, and disutility of migration that...
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opposed to work-based migration, for economic development, urbanization and city workforce composition. We then calibrate our … college graduates and the relaxation of the work-based migration have limited effects on economic development and urbanization …
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urbanization in middle-income countries such as Argentina, but it will slow down urban transition in poor countries like Malawi and …
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Residential segregation by jurisdiction generates disparities in public services and education. The distinctive American pattern - in which blacks live in cities and whites in suburbs - was enhanced by a large black migration from the rural South. I show that whites responded to this black...
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American cities have experienced a remarkable renaissance over the past 40 years, but in recent years, cities have experienced considerable discontent. Anger about high housing prices and gentrification has led to protests. The urban wage premium appears to have disappeared for less skilled...
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The fast and often chaotic urbanization of the developing world generates both economic opportunity and challenges …
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China urbanization is associated with both increases in per-capita income and greenhouse gas emissions. This paper uses …
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introduction to the Old World from the Americas, to estimate the impact of potatoes on Old World population and urbanization. Our … urbanization observed during the 18th and 19th centuries …
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