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 …

This paper looks at the effects of air pollution on migration in China using changes in the
average strength of thermal inversions over five-year periods as a source of exogenous …

We study how goods-and labor-market frictions affect aggregate labor productivity in China.
Combining unique data with a general equilibrium model of internal and international trade …

This paper estimates the effects on rural education of the send-down movement during the
Cultural Revolution, when about 16 million urban youth were mandated to resettle in the …

To investigate the household registration system (hukou) reform in China, it is important to
quantify the thresholds of obtaining hukou in urban areas at the city level. We build a new …

This article examines the impact of a property rights reform in rural China that allowed
farmers to lease out their land. We find the reform led to increases in land rental activity in …

Many households are confined to remote rural villages in the developing world. This study
examines the Anti-Poverty Relocation Program in China, considering the village-to-town …

This paper documents the changes in China's Hukou reform before and after 2014 based on
a unique data set of Hukou policy documents from Chinese cities between 2000 and 2016 …

How does rural-urban migration shape urban production in developing countries? We use
longitudinal data on Chinese manufacturing firms between 2000 and 2006, and exploit …

Migration and pollution are two defining features of China's impressive growth performance
over the last 30 years. In this paper we study the migration response to pollution in Chinese …