 Cognitive ability, the Big Five, and rural-to-urban migration in ChinaZiyi Cheng and Xi Chen China Economic Review, 2024, vol. 84, issue C Abstract: This paper investigates the role of cognitive ability and the Big Five factors in predicting individuals' probability of moving from rural to urban areas in China. Our estimation results suggest that a one standard deviation increase in cognitive ability is associated with a 0.7 percentage points increase in a person's migration probability during 2010–2020; while a one standard deviation increase in the personality trait openness to new experience correlates to a 0.8 percentage points increase in the probability of migration. Our estimates are substantial compared to unconditional migration probabilities, and are robust to issues such as reverse causality and measurement errors. We also provide suggestive evidence that cognitive ability may affect an individual's migration decision through the endowment channel, and personality traits may exert effects on one's migration probability through the preference channel. Keywords: Cognitive ability; The Big Five factors; Rural-to-urban migration; China (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:chieco:v:84:y:2024:i:c:s1043951x24000154 DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2024.102126 Access Statistics for this article China Economic Review is currently edited by B.M. Fleisher, K. X. D. Huang, M.E. Lovely, Y. Wen, X. Zhang and X. Zhu More articles in China Economic Review from Elsevier |
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