paper identifies the returns to schooling in urban China using individual-level variation in educational attainment caused … data from the China Urban Labor Survey conducted in five large cities in 2001. The results are consistent with the …

Although Africa has experienced rapid urbanization in recent decades, we know little about the process of urbanization …, the authors study the effect of migration on urbanization in South Africa. While they find that on average there is no … populations. Overall, the evidence suggests that exogenous migration shocks can foster urbanization in the medium run …