This paper examines the relationship between city size, migration, and urban income inequality using the 1% sample of … population size. As rural-to-urban migration is crucial in determining city size distribution in the PRC, we focus on exploring … the role of massive migration into big cities on shaping this size-inequality relationship. We find that the share of …

permanent migration, women stayed in school longer. Empirical evidence is consistent with this hypothesis. Marriage motives and …We study how the migration decision of young women in rural China is shaped by the return arrangement and opportunities … women has recently disappeared. We propose that the temporary nature of migration and an earlier return time relative to men …

affect the migration decisions of individuals, to the extent that those states approving same-sex marriage can be considered …, for whom we observe an outflow migration from those states with same sex marriage, pointing to dissimilarities in cultural …The aim of this paper is to analyze the impact of marriage regulation on the migratory behavior of individuals using …

marriage. We find that marriage rates increase sharply around the time of a move in an event study analysis. Reduced form … exposure analysis reveals that an additional move over a five year period increases the likelihood of marriage by 14 percent …-term intentions. These findings are consistent with a model where the marriage decision is costly and relocation lowers the costs to …