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 …

, the urban-rural income inequality. This pattern in the data suggests that inferences based solely on China's national …

combine to restrict workers’ location decisions. Using an equilibrium sorting model and rich micro data from China, we … regional inequality by moving workers from unproductive inland regions to productive coastal regions in China; such welfare and …

model to fit the data from China over the period from 1980 to 2007, a developing economy featuring not only large migration …. Furthermore, the increase in college admission selectivity for rural students plays a crucial but negative role in China …

detected by high-resolution satellites in China during 2005 to 2011, this paper investigates the impacts of fires on cognitive …

agriculture declines while labor productivity increases in agriculture more than in other sectors. We construct a unified theory … simultaneous decline and modernization of agriculture. As capital accumulates, agriculture becomes increasingly capital intensive … as modern agriculture crowds out traditional agriculture. Structural change accelerates in booms and slows down in …