In this paper we study the effect of optimistic income expectations on life satisfaction amongst the Chinese population … strong in the countryside and amongst rural-to-urban migrants. The importance of these expectations for life satisfaction is … particularly pronounced in the urban areas, though also highly significant for the rural area. If expectations were to reverse from …

-optimistic expectations about the incomes they can earn abroad suggest excessive migration pressure. Yet there is almost no statistical … natural emigration experiment with unique survey data on would-be emigrants' probabilistic expectations about employment and … conditional labor earnings at all points in the distribution for males, but reasonably accurate expectations for females. This …

This paper investigates the impact of land tenure insecurity on the migration decisions of China's rural residents. A …

This paper investigates the impact of land tenure insecurity on the migration decisions of China's rural residents. A …

Nearly a quarter of all children under the age of two in China are left behind in the countryside as parents migrate to … of labor from rural to urban areas has been a key driver of China's prosperity in recent decades, it may entail a …

This paper investigates the impact of land tenure insecurity on the migration decisions of China's rural residents. A …