This paper reviews the recent literature on rural-urban migration in developing countries,
focusing on three key questions: What motivates or forces people to migrate? What costs do …

In many developing countries property rights over rural land are maintained through
continuous personal use instead of by land titles. We show that removing the link between …

The relation between income and migration intentions can be monotonically decreasing,
increasing, or inverse U-shaped, dependent on the level of migration cost relative to wealth …

While scholars long recognized the importance of land markets as a key driver of rural non-
farm development and transformation in rural areas, evidence on the extent of their …

We document substantial increases in agricultural productivity, industrial output, and
peasants' nutrition in Imperial Russia as a result of the abolition of serfdom in 1861. Before …

Do negative shocks in origin countries encourage or inhibit international migration? What
roles do networks play in modifying out-migration responses? The answers to these …

Strengthening women's ownership, control, and use of land, livestock, and savings assets
matters for poverty and shared prosperity, as unequal property rights can lead to …

This article studies the structural transformation of Russia in 1885–1940 from an agrarian to
an industrial economy through the lens of a two-sector neoclassical growth model. We …

Citizenization of rural migrants (CRM) is an important urbanization goal in developing
countries. The main factors affecting urbanization are migration policies and rural land …

Agricultural land endowments should contribute positively to economic growth, but in
countries colonized by European powers this has not always happened. Productive land …