论文名称：Migration and rural poverty in China
发表刊物：Journal of comparative economics
摘要：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 shar
论文类型：期刊论文
期号：第4期
是否译文：否
发表时间：2005-04-01
收录刊物：SSCI