, intra-urban mobility, suburbanisation, and long-distance migration) for residents of the segregated post-Soviet city of …

This paper first finds a clear pattern of child gender difference in family migration in China. Specifically, our … estimates show that on average, the first child being a son increases the father's migration probability by 25.2 percent. We … hypothesize that the family's competitive earning incentive for sons drives this child gender effect on family migration: parents …

human capital theory. Instead, we propose a simple dynamic extension of the Roy model, where worker migration and wages are …

paper studies the effect of short-term internal migration experience on the intergenerational persistence of industry upon a … between the migrant's savings, skill or any other productive asset accumulation during migration and the decision to work upon … that short-term migration by males reduces the probability of intergenerational persistence by 20% in rural India …

measured risk attitudes and their consequences for migration. We also investigate whether substantial changes in the risk …

able to explain the downward trend in east to west migration using wage and unemployment information. Convergence in hourly …

The unprecedented large scale rural-to-urban migration in China has left many rural children living apart from their … parents. In this study, we examine the impact of parental migration on the nutritional status of young children in rural areas … instrumental variables to account for migration selection. Our results show that parental migration has no significant impact on …

Interstate migration has decreased steadily since the 1980s. We show that this trend is not primarily related to …

restrictions. Exploting this exogenous variation, we study the effect of migration on urbanisation and the distribution of … population. In particular, we test if migration inflows led to displacement, path dependence, or agglomeration in destination … migration shocks can foster urbanisation in the medium run. …