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 …

internal migration into river valleys after Onchocerciasis eradication, combined with a new survey of village elders to …

In this paper, I examine changes in labor supply and earnings across regions of Mexico during the 1990s. I focus the … on state migration to the United States. During the 1990s, rates of external migration and interval migration were higher … among individuals born in high-migration states. Consistent with positive selection of emigrants in terms of observable …

asset accumulation and energy use in the context of Mexico's conditional cash transfer program. We find that transfers had a …

extended family. Using household panel data from the Progresa program in rural Mexico, we exploit information on the paternal …

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 …

migration are used to link caste networks to household and aggregate mobility. Our key finding, consistent with the hypothesis …