This paper relies on recent proprietary data from China's poor rural minority areas to examine the importance of credit … constraints on rural-urban labor migration. Specifically, a liquidity shock via China's minimum living security allowance (MLSA …

China’s unprecedented urbanization. We construct an index of urbanicity from a broad set of community characteristics and …Rapid urbanization could have positive and negative health effects, such that the net impact on population health is … and individual level longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey to estimate the net health impact of …