Telecommunications externality on migration : evidence from Chinese Villages (English)

This paper uses a unique natural experiment in Chinese villages to investigate whether access to telecommunications-- in particular, landline phones -- increases the likelihood of outmigration. By using regional and time variations in the installation of landline phones, the difference-in-differences estimation shows that access to landline phones increases the ratio of out-migrant workers by 2 percentage points, or about 50 percent of the sample...

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Lu, Yi;

Xie, Huihua;

Xu, Lixin Colin;
Document Date
2013/10/01
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
Report Number
WPS6644
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
China,
Region
East Asia and Pacific,
Disclosure Date
2013/10/07
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
Doc Name
Telecommunications externality on migration : evidence from Chinese Villages
Keywords
Posts and Telecommunications

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Lu, Yi; Xie, Huihua; Xu, Lixin Colin.

Telecommunications externality on migration : evidence from Chinese Villages (English). Impact Evaluation series ; no. IE 105|Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 6644 Washington, DC : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/234991468220181144

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