This paper uses the send-down movement during the Chinese Cultural Revolution to study the impact of forced migration during youth on individuals' outcomes in later years. The massive send-down movement (1968-1978) forced more than 16 million urban youths to move to rural areas to carry out...

Prehistory to Unification -- The Qin/Han era -- The Tang dynasty -- The Song dynasty -- The Yuan dynasty -- The Ming dynasty -- The high Qing dynasty -- The late Qing dynasty -- The first decades of the Republic -- The war years -- The early PRC, 1949-1965 -- The Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976...

Theoretical background and analytical framework -- A five decade journey to the freedom to move : an institutional analysis on the vicissitude of migration policy -- Measuring interprovincial flow of human capital -- Determinants of interprovincial migration -- A proposal for an institutional...