Chen, Shuai; Oliva, Paulina; Zhang, Peng - 2019
This paper looks at the effects 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. Specifically, we find …