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When distance drives destination, towns can stimulate development

De Weerdt, Joachim; Christiaensen, Luc J.; Kanbur, Ravi - 2021

While city migrants see their welfare increase much more than those moving to towns, many more rural-urban migrants end up in towns. This phenomenon, documented in detail in Kagera, Tanzania, begs the question why migrants move to seemingly suboptimal destinations. Using an 18-year panel of...

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Migration externalities in Chinese cities

Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Démurger, Sylvie; Li, Shi - 2015

We analyse the impact of internal migration in China on natives' labour market outcomes. We find evidence of a large positive correlation of the city share of migrants with natives' wages. Using different sets of control variables and instruments suggests that the effect is causal. The large...

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Customary land conversion in African cities

Picard, Pierre M.; Selod, Harris - 2023

We propose an urban land use model to discuss the conversion of customary agricultural land to formal and informal residential land in a developing country city. Because customary land sales are insecure, migrant buyers face a risk of eviction, which affects land markets in non-trivial ways....

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Understanding the experiences of relocatees during forced relocation in Chinese urban restructuring

Li, Xin; Ham, Maarten van; Kleinhans, Reinout - 2016

Despite the massive forced relocation of residents during urban restructuring in China, there are no systematic studies on how residents undergo the process. Most studies concerning urban restructuring in China directly equate forced relocation with displacement, which has a negative...

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Walled cities and urban density in China

Du, Rui; Zhang, Junfu - 2018

Throughout the imperial era, defensive walls surrounded Chinese cities. Although most city walls have vanished, the cities have survived. We analyze a sample of nearly 300 prefectural-level cities in China, among which about half historically had city walls. We document that cities that had...

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Cities and entrepreneurs over time : like a horse and carriage?

Naudé, Wim - 2017

Entrepreneurship, being largely an urban phenomenon, co-evolves over time with cities. While this relationship is like a "horse and carriage", it is not a straightforward one, more akin to "love and marriage". In this paper I explore the co-evolution of entrepreneurship and cities. First, I...

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Integration of technological and social components in a smart urban development model : a case study of China

Heshmati, Almas; Koohborfardhaghighi, Somayeh; Summers, … - 2022

The path of urbanization around the world and in particular in China has been rapid. This study addresses measurement … urbanization. This study has a number of objectives. First we identify key determinants of public infrastructure components in …. In another step we estimate the effects of the composite index and its underlying components on urbanization. Finally …

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Entrepreneurship and the reallocation of African farmers

Naudé, Wim - 2015

agriculture and focus on the literature on entrepreneurship in Africa's structural transformation. I present a conceptual model to …

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Planning ahead for better neighborhoods : long run evidence from Tanzania

Michaels, Guy; Nigmatulina, Dzhamilya; Rauch, Ferdinand; … - 2017

What are the long run consequences of planning and providing basic infrastructure in neighborhoods, where people build their own homes? We study "Sites and Services" projects implemented in seven Tanzanian cities during the 1970s and 1980s, half of which provided infrastructure in previously...

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Urbanization, natural amenities, and subjective well-being : evidence from US counties

Winters, John V.; Li, Yu - 2015

This paper examines the effects of county-level urbanization and natural amenities on subjective well-being (SWB) in … important individual characteristics. The results suggest that urbanization lowers SWB, with relatively large negative effects …

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