This paper studies the impact of remittances on the savings behaviour of rural households in China, using a cross … migration and productive investment. -- rural-urban migration ; remittances ; savings ; instrumental-variables estimation …-sectional survey. Allowing for endogeneity and left-censoring of remittances, we find that the marginal propensity to save out of …

We focus on the impact of migrants' remittances on consumption patterns in rural China, allowing for endogeneity of … remittances and county fixed-effects. We find that the marginal propensity to consume out of remittances is close to unity, which … remittances as permanent income and are consistent with the prevalence of circular and repeat migration which is largely caused by …

We focus on the impact of migrants’ remittances on consumption patterns in rural China, allowing for endogeneity of … remittances and county fixed-effects. We find that the marginal propensity to consume out of remittances is close to unity, which … remittances as permanent income and are consistent with the prevalence of circular and repeat migration which is largely caused by …

This study draws on a survey of migrants in 12 cities across four major urbanizing areas in China and investigates the …

Internal labour migration has become an important part of the process of China’s industrialization and urbanisation in … motives of and the constraints to labour mobility in China. Drawing on various empirical investigations at the household level …

Over the past decades, China has witnessed a fast growth in urbanization promoted by massive flows of rural … representative data from the China Family Panel Studies in 2010, this study finds that urbanization is in general related to the …

estimate factors associated with remittances, taking migrant selection issues into account. We also estimate impacts of net … remittances on per capita income in migrant-sending rural households, taking into account the endogeneity of remittances. We find … that migration and remittances increase the incomes of rural households. However, the estimated direct income effects are …

put on the effects of internal, rural-urban migration (and its concomitant remittances). This paper analyses the net … effects of remittances from internal, rural-urban migrants on selfemployment and on investments of the left-behind households … households receiving remittances from internal, rural-urban migrants are less likely to be self-employed - both in Thailand and …

China has long aimed to restrict population growth in large cities but encourages growth in small and medium …-sized cities. At the same time, various government policies favor large cities. We conjecture that larger cities in China have more …