variables in the 2006 China Agricultural Census, we find that a 10-percentage-point increase in the migration rate of co … to the city each year, China is experiencing the largest internal migration in the human history. Using instrumental …

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 …

We discover and document errors in public use microdata samples ("PUMS files") of the 2000 Census, the 2003-2006 …

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

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 … 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 …