Journal article
Migration and Rural Poverty in China.
- Abstract:
- We analyze two complementary household datasets from China’s poor areas to examine whether the poor migrate and whether migration helps the poor. We find an inverted-U- shaped relationship between household endowments and the likelihood of migration. Over time, the poor are more likely to migrate. Using household panel data and taking prior village migration networks as an instrument, we find that having a migrant increases a household’s income per capita by 8.5 to 13.1 percent, but that the overall impact on poverty is modest because most poor people do not migrate. Migrants remit a large share of their income and the amount of these remittances is responsive somewhat to the needs of other family members.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1016/j.jce.2005.09.001
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- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Journal:
- Journal of Comparative Economics More from this journal
- Volume:
- 33
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 688 - 709
- Publication date:
- 2005-01-01
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- ISSN:
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0147-5967
- Language:
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English
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oai:economics.ouls.ox.ac.uk:15052
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- Association for Comparative Economic Studies
- Copyright date:
- 2005
- Notes:
- © 2005 Association for Comparative Economic Studies. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. NOTICE: this is the author's version of a work that was accepted for publication in Journal of Comparative Economics. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Journal of Comparative Economics, 33, 4, (December 2005) DOI#10.1016/j.jce.2005.09.001
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