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DOI	10.1016/j.jdeveco.2022.102833
	The effect of air pollution on migration: Evidence from China
	Chen, Shuai; Oliva, Paulina; Zhang, Peng
发表日期	2022
ISSN	0304-3878
EISSN	1872-6089
卷号	156
英文摘要	This paper looks at the effects of air pollution on migration in China using changes in the average strength of thermal inversions over five-year periods as a source of exogenous variation for medium-run air pollution levels. Our findings suggest that air pollution is responsible for large changes in inflows and outflows of migration in China. Specifically, we find that a 10 percent increase in air pollution, holding everything else constant, is capable of reducing population through net outmigration by about 2.8 percent in a given county. We find that these inflows are primarily driven by well-educated people at the beginning of their professional careers. We also find a strong gender asymmetry in the response of mid-age adults that suggests families are splitting across counties to protect vulnerable members of the household. Our results are robust to different specifications, including a spatial lag model that accounts for localized migration spillovers and spatially correlated pollution shocks.
英文关键词	Air pollution; Migration; Human capital; Avoidance behavior
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Economics
WOS类目	Social Science Citation Index (SSCI)
WOS记录号	WOS:000772292600013
来源期刊	JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/280676
作者单位	Zhejiang University; University of Southern California; National Bureau of Economic Research; Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data; The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Chen, Shuai,Oliva, Paulina,Zhang, Peng. The effect of air pollution on migration: Evidence from China[J],2022,156.
APA	Chen, Shuai,Oliva, Paulina,&Zhang, Peng.(2022).The effect of air pollution on migration: Evidence from China.JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS,156.
MLA	Chen, Shuai,et al."The effect of air pollution on migration: Evidence from China".JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS 156(2022).