China's central government has rightfully recognized that successful urbanization will be decisive for the nation … in China, the paper calls for a housing strategy that accommodates the surging waves of rural to urban migration, one of … the main drivers of urbanization, and that provides migrants with greater urban socio-economic opportunities, improves …

population. This paper contributes to the discussion with illuminating the main drivers of urbanization: (i) migration and (ii …As it has rightfully been recognized by China's central government, successful urbanization will be decisive for the … nation's future development. Key challenges will be to realize urbanization economies, improve production and innovation …

Using a field experiment in China, we study whether migration status is correlated with attitudes toward risk …. Our results suggest that migration may be driven more by a stronger belief in one's ability to succeed in an uncertain and …

Using a field experiment in China, we study whether migration status is correlated with attitudes toward risk …. Our results suggest that migration may be driven more by a stronger belief in one’s ability to succeed in an uncertain …

Using a field experiment in China, we study whether migration status is correlated with attitudes toward risk …. Our results suggest that migration may be driven more by a stronger belief in one’s ability to succeed in an uncertain and …

This paper investigates the urbanization of the Indian manufacturing sector by combining enterprise data from formal … urbanization has slowed down, the localized importance of education and infrastructure have not. Our results suggest that districts … with better education and infrastructure have experienced a faster pace of urbanization, although higher urban-rural cost …

International migration not only enables individuals to earn higher wages but also exposes them to new environments … caregivers in migrant households. Using unique survey data from Moldova, we find that international migration raises parental … on GDP growth shocks in the destination countries and migration networks. We conclude that aspirations are a highly …

in a migration experience, which increases the migrant's aspirations. This will induce her to invest more in the … given migration rate. We show that the optimal migration rate that maximizes the post-migration skill-rate of the population … is higher if we allow for the aspirations effect of migration. We use panel data from Indonesia to demonstrate that a …

suggest something quite different: that over the course of a "mobility transition", emigration generally rises with economic … transition in every decade since 1960. It then briefly surveys 45 years of research, which has yielded six classes of theory to … explain the mobility transition and numerous tests of its existence and characteristics in both macro- and micro-level data …