文献类型：期刊文献

英文题名：Stay or Leave? The Role of Air Pollution in Urban Migration Choices

作者：Liu, Ziming[1];Yu, Lu[2,3]

机构：[1]East China Univ Sci & Technol, Sch Social & Publ Adm, Shanghai, Peoples R China;[2]Zhejiang Univ, Sch Publ Affairs, Hangzhou, Peoples R China;[3]Deutsch Inst Entwicklungspolit DIE, German Dev Inst, Bonn, Germany

年份：2020

卷号：177

外文期刊名：ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

收录：;WOS:【SSCI(收录号:WOS:000567022100010)，SCI-EXPANDED(收录号:WOS:000567022100013)】；

基金：We would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments, which have greatly improved our manuscript. This work was supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, National Natural Science Foundation of China [grant number 71673144, 7191101210] and the Innovation Program of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission [grant number 2017-01-07-00-02-E00008].

语种：英文

外文关键词：Air pollution; Air quality index; Internal migration; Environmental regulation

摘要：Air pollution is a pervasive issue in many cities in the developing world. Yet, the linkage between air pollution and decisions concerning internal migration remains rarely explored. In this paper, we match data from China, based on an annual city-level statistical yearbook, historical air pollution indicators and a nationwide survey of temporary labor migrants in 2016 in order to analyze the effects of air pollution on migrants' interest in settling down in the cities they have moved to for work. Our results show that there is a significant and negative effect of air pollution on migrants' interest in settling down. Specifically, this negative effect of air pollution is greater for old, less-educated, within-city migrants and rural migrants who comprise a large proportion of the Chinese urban labor force. We conclude that air pollution undermines investment in human capital and may become an obstacle for sustainable development of cities; thus, we underline the potential benefits of more stringent environmental regulation.