Rural-urban migration in develo** countries: Lessons from the literature

H Selod, F Shilpi - Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper reviews the recent literature on rural-urban migration in develo** countries,
focusing on three key questions: What motivates or forces people to migrate? What costs do …

The history, geography, and sociology of slums and the health problems of people who live in slums

A Ezeh, O Oyebode, D Satterthwaite, YF Chen… - The lancet, 2017 - thelancet.com
Massive slums have become major features of cities in many low-income and middle-
income countries. Here, in the first in a Series of two papers, we discuss why slums are …

Urban-rural gaps in the develo** world: Does internal migration offer opportunities?

D Lagakos - Journal of Economic perspectives, 2020 - aeaweb.org
This article provides an overview of the growing literature on urban-rural gaps in the
develo** world. I begin with recent evidence on the size of the gaps as measured by …

Selection, agriculture, and cross-country productivity differences

D Lagakos, ME Waugh - American Economic Review, 2013 - aeaweb.org
Cross-country labor productivity differences are larger in agriculture than in non-agriculture.
We propose a new explanation for these patterns in which the self-selection of …