cities have survived. We analyze a sample of nearly 300 prefectural-level cities in China, among which about half … historically had city walls. We document that cities that had walls in late imperial China have higher population and employment …

In this paper, we use Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to estimate how well China's urban areas absorb migrant workers … under the interaction of urbanization and industrialization. We applied an output-oriented BCC model to evaluate provincial … and regional rural labor absorption efficiency in mainland China. It appears that 4 out of 31 provinces and municipals are …

-being. In this paper, we examine the link between weight, height and well-being for three distinct samples in China given that … attractiveness effects likely vary greatly across sociocultural contexts. As China has recently undergone rapid economic …

in the future. The urbanization strategy of the government will likely raise the number of migrants with limited hukou …

Neoliberal politics in China have changed the roles of, and the interrelationships between, the state, the market and … stakeholders perceive and interact with each other in the state-led SRPs in Shenyang City in Northeast China. Through in …

The path of urbanization around the world and in particular in China has been rapid. This study addresses measurement … urbanization. This study has a number of objectives. First we identify key determinants of public infrastructure components in … China at the province level. Second a multidimensional index of the networking among the components is computed. The index …

fixed effects and is robust to instrumenting urbanization. Provinceﾒs competition, urban amenities and dis-amenities, cost … capita account for 40 percent of the negative urbanization penalty. Our result cannot be explained by the presence of … markets, young entrepreneurs are able to reap-off the benefits of urbanization externalities: every 100,000-inhabitant …

Urbanization economies - the effects on productivity and utility created endogenously by larger cities - are a … amongst these variables depends on the nature of the dominant urbanization economy (or diseconomy). This paper looks at the …

ties) than in sparsely populated areas. We also demonstrate that, for a low urbanization level, there is a unique steady …-state equilibrium where workers do not interact with weak ties, while, for a high level of urbanization, there is a unique steady … when social interactions are optimal, we show that there is over-urbanization in equilibrium …