use rates during the late 1980s and 1990s. Using panel data on villages in rural China (1987-2002), we find that labor out …This paper examines a possible connection between China's massive rural to urban migration and high chemical fertilizer … forms of water pollution, suggesting that industrialization has induced pollution in China both directly and through its …

This paper looks at the effects of air pollution on migration in China using changes in the average strength of thermal … that air pollution is responsible for large changes in inflows and outflows of migration in China. More specifically, we … find that independent changes in air pollution of the magnitude that occurred in China in the course of our study (between …

This paper exploits two unique features of China's history to study the effects of access to internal migration …

China strongly restricts rural-rural, urban-urban, and rural-urban migration. The result which this paper documents is … areas the paper estimates a city productivity relationship, based on city GDP numbers for 1990-97. The effects of access …

services as city residents in China. We estimate a spatial overlapping generations model with heterogeneous households to … that offer the potential of decreasing the inequality within China while at the same time increasing the overall level of …

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 a 10-percentage-point increase in the migration rate of co …

China, we find interesting interactions between fertility and migration decisions in various counterfactual experiments with …