Longing for the Blue Sky: Urban air quality and the individual decision to immigrate

Hu, Zhigao; Zhang, Yan

doi:10.1016/j.asieco.2021.101437

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“…Considering other contextual factors associated with migration streams, the increasing environment risks related to poor air quality is still in uential in shaping internal migration choices among Italian provinces. Similar evidence has also been found in other regions and migration patterns (Hu et al, 2022). It is recognized that 'vote by foot' rule stands in the immigration decision.…”

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“…The densely populated city cluster of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region has witnessed the high concentrations of PM 2.5 , while the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta experience a less extent. Generally, the air quality is better in southern areas than that in the north (Zhang et al, 2022). Sever and persistent haze pollution has become an heavy burden not only to the sustainable development of economics, but also for national health care system.…”

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confidence: 99%

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An inverted U-shaped relationship between haze pollution and rural migrants' long-term residence intentions: Theoretical mechanisms and China’s evidence

Zhao

Wang

2023

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Despite the extensive literature on the effect of air pollution on individual’s well-being, explore the relationship between polluted haze and rural migrants' long-term residence intentions is still limited. The current study fills the gap by investigating the impact of haze pollution on rural migrants' long-term residence intentions in Chinese context. Overall, we find an inverted U-shaped relationship between the level of haze pollutants and rural migrants' long-term residence intentions. The results still hold when different haze quality indicators and using thermal inversion as the endogeneity variable. Specifically, haze pollution plays its role through two opposite mechanisms: income effect and health effect. When the size of income effect is larger than health effect, rural migrants are inclined to settle down in their host cities, vice versa. In addition, we also find that the effect of haze pollution varies across different population groups and regions.

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