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 …

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 a 10-percentage-point increase in the migration rate of co …

, the urban-rural income inequality. This pattern in the data suggests that inferences based solely on China's national …

The path of income inequality in post-reform China has been widely interpreted as "China's Kuznets curve." We show that … the Kuznets growth model of structural transformation in a dual economy, alongside population urbanization, has little … agrarian policy reforms. Our findings warn against any presumption that the Kuznets process will assure that China has passed …

China's fast economic growth over the past 40 years has been accompanied by an increasingly rapid rate of urbanization … generally believed to be a dominant driving force. Motivated by a recent finding of a high housing vacancy rate in urban China …, but not to the change of night-time light. These results suggest that an inaccurate account of urbanization is an …

China urbanization is associated with both increases in per-capita income and greenhouse gas emissions. This paper uses … suggests that current regional economic development policies that bolster the growth of China's northeastern cities are likely … China's cities …

This paper explores the contribution of the structural transformation and urbanization process to China's housing …

Are the well-known facts about urbanization in the United States also true for the developing world? We compare … American metropolitan areas with comparable geographic units in Brazil, China and India. Both Gibrat's Law and Zipf's Law seem … to hold as well in Brazil as in the U.S., but China and India look quite different. In Brazil and China, the implications …

We consider risk sharing in rural China during its rapid economic transformation from the late 1980s through the late …