Giulietti, Corrado; Wahba, Jackline; Zenou, Yves - 2014
This paper studies the role of strong versus weak ties in the rural-to-urban migration decision in China. We first … city. We then use a unique longitudinal data that allows us to test our model by focusing on first-time migration. Strong … village in which the individual resides. We address the endogeneity of the network formation in the migration decision. Our …