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Rural-Urban Migration and House Prices in China
Garriga, Carlos - 2020
This paper uses a dynamic competitive spatial equilibrium framework to evaluate the contribution of rural-urban migration induced by structural transformation to the behavior of Chinese housing markets. In the model, technological progress drives workers facing heterogeneous mobility costs to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482233
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Peer Migration in China
Chen, Yuyu - 2010
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462981
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The Welfare Effects of Encouraging Rural-Urban Migration
Lagakos, David - 2018
This paper studies the welfare effects of encouraging rural-urban migration in the developing world. To do so, we build a dynamic incomplete-markets model of migration in which heterogenous agents face seasonal income fluctuations, stochastic income shocks, and disutility of migration that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453520
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Educational Choice, Rural-urban Migration and Economic Development
Liao, Pei-Ju - 2017
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453775
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Inaccurate age and sex data in the Census PUMS files : Evidence and Implications
Alexander, J. Trent - 2010
We discover and document errors in public use microdata samples ("PUMS files") of the 2000 Census, the 2003-2006 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462949
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Youth Labor Force Participation, Education, and Human Capital in Asia, by Gender, 1990-2019
Fraumeni, Barbara M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
paper with an emphasis on differences by gender and differences across regions. Some comparisons between China and India and … gender in any analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014337769
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Globalization and Inequality : Evidence from Within China
Wei, Shang-Jin - 2001
, the urban-rural income inequality. This pattern in the data suggests that inferences based solely on China's national …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470105
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Social Insurance and Migration : Evidence from a Nation-Wide Institutional Reform in China
Li, Fanghua; Ji, Chenyang; Buchinsky, Moshe - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
. We exploit a quasi experimental design in rural China, under which county officials were assigned to a group of villages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014421245
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The Impact of Migration Controls on Urban Fiscal Policies and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital in China
Sieg, Holger - 2020
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481067
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To Stay or to Migrate? When Becker Meets Harris-Todaro
Liao, Pei-Ju - 2020
China, we find interesting interactions between fertility and migration decisions in various counterfactual experiments with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481070