This paper exploits two unique features of China's history to study the effects of access to internal migration …: reforms to the household registration (hukou) system, and historical migration flows. We show that temporary migration due to … later, hukou reforms in cities which sent SDY increased migration in provinces where those SDY temporarily resided. Using …

The paper develops a tractable econometric model of optimal migration, focusing on expected income as the main economic … influence on migration. The model improves on previous work in two respects: it covers optimal sequences of location decisions … panel data from the NLSY on white males with a high school education. Our main conclusion is that interstate migration …

than sons. Although China's hukou mobility restrictions are not gender-specific in intent, they have larger adverse effects … on girls. Rural residents adjacent to cities that experience shocks to labor demand after China's accession to the WTO …

services as city residents in China. We estimate a spatial overlapping generations model with heterogeneous households to … provide large fiscal externalities to all major cities. We show the feasibility of alternative internal migration policies … that offer the potential of decreasing the inequality within China while at the same time increasing the overall level of …

China, we find interesting interactions between fertility and migration decisions in various counterfactual experiments with …Allowing migration activity as an integral part of demographic transition and economic development, we establish a … migration equilibrium framework with rural agents heterogeneous in skills and fertility preferences. We then establish and …