Over the past thirty years, reforms in China have pushed forward the integral development of the economy and opened up agriculture to modernization. Small farmers who obtained independent production and operating rights during the reform period must now confront the pressure of market...

This study seeks to identify the determinants of rural women's migration decisions with a sample of 335 migrant women and 204 nonmigrant women in sixteen cities of the Yangtze delta in 2006. We study these determinants from two dimensions: individual factors and household factors. The logistic...