This paper reviews the recent literature on rural-urban migration in developing countries,
focusing on three key questions: What motivates or forces people to migrate? What costs do …

In principle, firms in developing countries benefit from the fact that advanced technologies
and products have already been developed in industrialized countries and can simply be …

Many studies use shift-share (or “Bartik”) instruments, which average a set of shocks with
exposure share weights. We provide a new econometric framework for shift-share …

We study the effects of climate change on labor and capital reallocation across regions,
sectors and firms. We use newly digitized administrative reports on extreme weather events …

The fast and often chaotic urbanization of the developing world generates both economic
opportunity and challenges, like contagious disease and congestion, because proximity …

We examine how to interpret estimates from a commonly used migration regression relating
changes in local population to exogenous local labor demand shocks. Using a simple model …

Migration and pollution are two defining features of China's impressive growth performance
over the last 30 years. In this paper we study the migration response to pollution in Chinese …

This paper empirically investigates whether the nature of firm-level employment adjustment
is affected by the flexibility of the labour market. Specifically, we take advantage of …

Recent evidence suggests that exposure to air pollution adversely impacts health outcomes,
cognitive function, and labor productivity, however, less is known about the effect of air …

Fertility differentials across countries drive global migration. Despite a vibrant research
agenda on the demographic forces behind international migration, little empirical research …