Suggested Sources for a Term Paper on Urbanization in China

Determinants of Rural to Urban Migration in China

Bao, S. O. Bodvarsson, J. Hou and Y. Zhao, (2011), “”The Regulation of Migration in a Transition Economy: China’s Hukou System”, Contemporary Economic Policy, Vol. 29, No. 4, pp. 564-579. (Consider only pp 564-565 and 577-578.) (PUT ON RESERVE)

Effects of Urbanization on Productivity in China

Chen, Y., (2009), “Agglomeration and location of foreign direct investment: The case of China”, China Economic Review, Vol. 20, pp 549-557 (Consider only Section 1 , Introduction and Section 5, Conclusions.)

Vendryes, T,, (2011), “Migration constraints and development: Hukou and capital accumulation in China”, China Economic Review, Vol 22, pp. 669-692. (Consider only pp 669-670 and pp690) (PUT ON RESERVE)

Xu, Zelai, (2009), “Productivity and Agglomeration Economies in Chinese Cities”, Comparative Economic Studies, vol. 51, pp284-301. (Consider mainly pp 284-291 and pp 298-299.) This study finds that China should promote the growth of intermediate sized cities (3 to 4 million).

Effects of Urbanization on Fertility in China

Guo, Z.; Z. Wu; C. Schimmle and S. Li, (2012), “The Effect of Urbanization on China’s Fertility”, Population Research and Policy Review, Vol. 31, pp 417-434. (Consider only pp 417-422 and 430-431.) (PUT ON RESERVE)

Rural to Urban Migration in China

Chen, Aimin; Coulson, N. Edward (2002), “Determinants of Urban Migration: Evidence from Chinese Cities”, Urban Studies v39, n12 (November 2002): 2189-2197

Liang, Zai; Chen, Yiu Por; Gu, Yanmin (2002), “Rural Industrialisation and Internal Migration in China”, Urban Studies v39, n12 (November 2002): 2175-2187.

Zhu, N. and X. Luo. (2010), “The impact of migration on rural poverty and inequality: a case study in China”, Agricultural Economics, vol. 41, pp. 191-204.

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Size Distribution of Chinese Cities

Anderson, G. and Ge, Y., (2005), “The size distribution of Chinese cities”, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Vol. 35, pp 756-776. (Consider only pp 756-758 and pp. 774-775.)

Fan, S.; Li, L.; and X. Zhang, (2012), “Challenges of creating cities in China: Lessons from a short-lived county-to-city upgrading policy”, Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 40, pp. 476-491. (Consider only pp 476-479 and pp 489-490,)

Song, Shunfeng; Zhang, Kevin Honglin (2002), “Urbanisation and City Size Distribution in China”, Urban Studies v39, n12 pp 2317-2327 (Consider only pp 2317-2319 and pp 2326).

Xu, Z. and N. Zhu, (2009), “City Size Distribution in China: Are Large Cities Dominant?”, Urban Studies, Vol. 46, No. 10. pp 2159-2185. (Consider only pp 2159-2161 and pp 2181)

Ye, X. and Y. Xie, (2012), “Re-examination of Zipf’s law and urban dynamic in China: a regional approach”, Annual of Regional Science, Vol. 49, pp. 135-156. (Consider only ppp 135-139 and pp. 154-155.)

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Urban Sprawl in Chinese Cities

Ding, C. and X. Zhao, (2011), “Assessment of Urban Spatial-Growth Patterns in China During Rapid Urbanization”, The Chinese Economy, Vol. 44, No. 1, pp46-71. (Consider only pp 46-50 and pp 67-68.)

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