There is increasing recognition that rural-urban migration has complex health effects. internationally, the migrants´ state of health has been investigated intensively, and the health status of those migrants who return to their hometowns or rural villages is now receiving greater attention....

Based on research from the UNRISD inquiry into the social dimensions of green economy, this paper outlines a conceptual and policy approach to bring social concerns more centrally into green economy and sustainable development debates. The paper first examines a wide range of social problems and...

We examine the causal effect of air pollution on an individual's propensity for entrepreneurship in China. Our preferred model, which employs an instrumental variable approach to address endogeneity arising from sorting into entrepreneurship and locational choices, suggests that exposure to...