BACKGROUND China has been experiencing the largest rural to urban migration in history. Rural-to-urban migrants are those who leave their hometown for another place in order to work or live without changing their hukou status, which is a household registration system in China, categorizing people as either rural residents or urban residents. Rural-to-urban migrants typically find better job opp...

We test for long-term damages from precipitation shocks in rural Brazil by observing wages of households that have permanently migrated from rural to urban areas. We find that large short-term precipitation shocks damage migrants’ long-term wages. We offer an analytical explanation for this outcome: credit-constrained households may be willing to accept lower wages in urban areas following the ...

We examine the effects of urban form and public transit supply on the commute mode choices and annual vehicle miles traveled (VMTs) of households living in 114 urban areas in 1990. The probability of driving to work is lower the higher are population centrality and rail miles supplied and the lower is road density. Population centrality, jobs-housing balance, city shape, and road density have a...

BACKGROUND Mass vaccination of owned domestic dogs is crucial for the control of rabies in sub-Saharan Africa. Knowledge of the proportion of households which own dogs, and of the factors associated with dog ownership, is important for the planning and implementation of rabies awareness and dog vaccination programmes, and for the promotion of responsible dog ownership. This paper reports the re...

The spatial distribution of households and firms, or urban spatial structure, is a core element of the study of urban economics and the crucial determinant of commuting patterns. This paper examines developments in the analysis of urban spatial structure and commuting that are related to the urban labour market that is the analysis of labour supply and labour demand in a spatial context. These ...

this study was conducted in delta state nigeria to establish a nexus between rural-urban migration and child labour. random sampling was applied to select rural settlements and this study covers 450 sample farming households. the results show that rural-urban migration influence child labour (p

Background: Simplified and reliable tools for individual and household diet quality assessment have been found helpful to reduce cost of the dietary survey. The main objective of this study was to determine the household’s diet profile in the Centre-West Region of Burkina Faso. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on household food consumption using the last seven days recall. Food co...

OBJECTIVE(S) To assess how willing people would be to join a voluntary health insurance scheme and to see how they respond to changes in the benefit package. We also examined willingness to cross-subsidise the poor. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SUBJECTS Two thousand two hundread and twenty four households comprising of 1,163 uninsured household heads asked about their willingness to pay fo...