Khanna, Gaurav; Liang, Wenquan; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
this paper we study the migration response to pollution in Chinese cities, and its consequences for productivity and … in higher returns to skill in cities that the educated migrate away from. We quantify the loss in aggregate productivity …. Counterfactual simulations from the estimated model show that reducing pollution would increase productivity through spatial re …