This paper exploits two unique features of China's history to study the effects of access to internal migration …: reforms to the household registration (hukou) system, and historical migration flows. We show that temporary migration due to … later, hukou reforms in cities which sent SDY increased migration in provinces where those SDY temporarily resided. Using …

The paper develops a tractable econometric model of optimal migration, focusing on expected income as the main economic … influence on migration. The model improves on previous work in two respects: it covers optimal sequences of location decisions … panel data from the NLSY on white males with a high school education. Our main conclusion is that interstate migration …

This paper examines a possible connection between China's massive rural to urban migration and high chemical fertilizer … use rates during the late 1980s and 1990s. Using panel data on villages in rural China (1987-2002), we find that labor out-migration … a nearby city as an instrument, we find that village fertilizer use is linked to contemporaneous short-term out-migration …

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 …

China strongly restricts rural-rural, urban-urban, and rural-urban migration. The result which this paper documents is …

services as city residents in China. We estimate a spatial overlapping generations model with heterogeneous households to … provide large fiscal externalities to all major cities. We show the feasibility of alternative internal migration policies … 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 …We aim to quantify the role of social networks in job-related migration. With over 130 million rural labors migrating …

-urban migration induced by structural transformation to the behavior of Chinese housing markets. In the model, technological progress … then used to evaluate how changes to city migration policies and land supply regulations affect the speed of urbanization … and house price appreciation. The analysis indicates that making migration policy more egalitarian or land policy more …