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Educational Choice, Rural-Urban Migration and Economic Development
Liao, Pei-Ju - 2017
opposed to work-based migration, for economic development, urbanization and city workforce composition. We then calibrate our … college graduates and the relaxation of the work-based migration have limited effects on economic development and urbanization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945602
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Land Use Controls and the Provision of Education
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2012
Considerable prior analysis has gone into the study of zoning restrictions on locational choice and on fiscal burdens. The prior work on zoning - particularly fiscal or exclusionary zoning - has provided both inconclusive theoretical results and quite inconsistent empirical support of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112847
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What is Different About Urbanization in Rich and Poor Countries? Cities in Brazil, China, India and the United States
Chauvin, Juan Pablo - 2016
Are the well-known facts about urbanization in the United States also true for the developing world? We compare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012998418
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Growth, Urbanization and Poverty Reduction in India
Datt, Gaurav - 2016
Longstanding development issues are revisited in the light of our newly-constructed dataset of poverty measures for India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. We find a downward trend in poverty measures since 1970, with an acceleration post-1991, despite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012998952
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Is India's Manufacturing Sector Moving Away from Cities?
Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2014
This paper investigates the urbanization of the Indian manufacturing sector by combining enterprise data from formal … urbanization has slowed down, the localized importance of education and infrastructure have not. Our results suggest that districts … with better education and infrastructure have experienced a faster pace of urbanization, although higher urban-rural cost …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013066249
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The Welfare Effects of Encouraging Rural-Urban Migration
Lagakos, David - 2018
This paper studies the welfare effects of encouraging rural-urban migration in the developing world. To do so, we build a dynamic incomplete-markets model of migration in which heterogenous agents face seasonal income fluctuations, stochastic income shocks, and disutility of migration that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930352
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Rural-Urban Migration and House Prices in China
Garriga, Carlos; Hedlund, Aaron; Tang, Yang; Wang, Ping - 2022
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 …
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Peer Migration in China
Chen, Yuyu - 2010
We aim to quantify the role of social networks in job-related migration. With over 130 million rural labors migrating 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148663
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Globalization and Inequality : Evidence from within China
Wei, Shang-Jin; Wu, Yi - 2021
In this paper, we provide a case study of the impact of globalization on income inequality using data across Chinese regions. The literature on cross-country studies has been criticized because differences in legal systems and other institutions across countries are difficult to control for, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013219685
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Delineating Urban Areas Using Building Density
de Bellefon, Marie-Pierre - 2019
We develop a new dartboard methodology to delineate urban areas using detailed information about building location, which we implement using a map of all buildings in France. For each pixel, our approach compares actual building density after smoothing to counterfactual smoothed building density...
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