China's central government has rightfully recognized that successful urbanization will be decisive for the nation …'s future development. However, most city regions in China are not yet enjoying the net benefits that agglomerations in … in China, the paper calls for a housing strategy that accommodates the surging waves of rural to urban migration, one of …

China has been experiencing two major demographic sea changes since the late 1970s: (i) Internal migration, primarily …. The basic question posed in this paper is: How are aging and migration related in post-reform China? We argue that there … empirically the relationship between origin age distribution and interprovincial migration in China using province-level census …

Post-reform China has been experiencing two major demographic changes, an extraordinary amount of internal migration … and an aging population. We present a general migration model which captures the idea that older migrants have shorter … of a transition economy. We find that shifts in China's age distribution have generated significant changes in the …

China has been experiencing two major demographic sea changes since the late 1970s: (i) Internal migration, primarily …. The basic question posed in this paper is: How are aging and migration related in post-reform China? We argue that there … empirically the relationship between origin age distribution and interprovincial migration in China using province-level census …

Post-reform China has been experiencing two major demographic changes, an extraordinary amount of internal migration … and an aging population. We present a general migration model which captures the idea that older migrants have shorter … of a transition economy. We find that shifts in China's age distribution have generated significant changes in the …

The majority of China’s roughly 145 million rural-urban migrants were born after 1980, making this population the “new … generation” of internal migrant workers. Having been directly influenced by China’s rapid economic growth and recent socio …-demographic policy changes, this cohort of rural-urban migrants have different migration motivations compared to their father …

Over the past two decades, more than 160 million rural residents have migrated to cities in China. They are usually … to what extent city social networks alleviate mental health problems among these migrants. Using the longitudinal migrant … survey from the Rural-to-Urban Migration in China (RUMiC) project, we find that larger social networks are significantly …

-urban migrant households. We find that son preference exists among the rural migrants' households and that it caused lower … the human capital investment in girls in contemporary China when institutional arrangements result in high costs of … schooling for migrants …

this hypothesis using data on temporary rural-urban migrants in China. The size of a migrant's social-family network is … the credibility of the IV by emphasizing the unique institutional context of rural-urban migration in China and focusing … on the sample of migrants who originally started as wage workers in urban areas and currently are not in their first jobs …

This paper examines how left-behind children influence return migration in China. We first present a simple …-going migrants with an incomplete length of duration and return migrants with a complete length of duration. Second, we apply a … binary Probit model to study the return intentions of on-going migrants. Both models yield consistent results regarding the …