Using a field experiment in China, we study whether migration status is correlated with attitudes toward risk …. Our results suggest that migration may be driven more by a stronger belief in one's ability to succeed in an uncertain and …

Land requisition has been an important process by which Chinese local governments promote urbanization and generate … that young farmers (age 16-44) are not affected in their migration decisions by land loss through requisition, while some …

willingness to take risks increase the probability of migration. On the other hand, the non-cognitive skills conscientiousness and …

suggest something quite different: that over the course of a "mobility transition", emigration generally rises with economic … transition in every decade since 1960. It then briefly surveys 45 years of research, which has yielded six classes of theory to … explain the mobility transition and numerous tests of its existence and characteristics in both macro- and micro-level data …

channels for this relationship highlight the joint importance of demographic transition, education investment, and structural …

. Climate change intensifies poverty and income inequality creating favorable conditions for urbanization and migration from low … migration of workers. For nearly all of the world's countries, our micro-founded model jointly endogenizes the effects of … ages) over the course of the 21st century. However, under current migration laws and policies, forcibly displaced people …