The E↵ect of Pollution on Migration: Evidence from China

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  • Shuai Chen
  • Paulina Oliva
  • Peng Zhang
چکیده

This paper looks at the e↵ects 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. More specifically, we find that independent changes in air pollution of the magnitude that occurred in China in the course of our study (between 1996 and 2010) are capable of reducing floating migration inflows by 50 percent and of reducing population through net outmigration by 5 percent in a given county. We find that these inflows are primarily driven by well educated people at the beginning of their professional careers, leading to substantial changes in the sociodemographic composition of the population and labor force of Chinese counties. Our results are robust to di↵erent specifications, including simple counts of inversions as instruments, di↵erent weather controls, and di↵erent forms of error variance.

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تاریخ انتشار 2017