Using a representative sample of rural migrants in cities, this paper investigates where the migrants in urban China …

The majority of China’s roughly 145 million rural-urban migrants were born after 1980, making this population the “new … generation” of internal migrant workers. Having been directly influenced by China’s rapid economic growth and recent socio … sociocultural integration in cities. This research uses in-depth interview data collected in December 2006 and February 2007 in …

context of China. We employ the rural sample of the 2009 RUMiC data, which cover approximately 8000 rural households in 82 … counties of China. We find that an increase in the agricultural land of a household tends to increase the household members …

variables in the 2006 China Agricultural Census, we find that a 10-percentage-point increase in the migration rate of co … to the city each year, China is experiencing the largest internal migration in the human history. Using instrumental …

Rural-urban migrants in China appear to prefer nearby destination cities. To gain a better understanding of this … migrants in China based on their migration destination choices. Our baseline estimates suggest that to induce a migrant to move …