Finding the Instrumental Variables of Household Registration: A discussion of the impact of China's household registration system on the citizenship of the migrant population
Jingwen Tan, Shixi Kang

TL;DR
This paper investigates how China's household registration system affects migrant citizens' settlement and employment, proposing family size and children as instrumental variables to analyze its impact.
Contribution
It introduces a novel approach using family size and children as instrumental variables to study the effects of household registration on migrant citizenship in China.
Findings
Non-agricultural households have 20.2% lower settlement intentions.
Non-agricultural households have 7.28% lower employment levels.
The effect mechanism persists among the non-mobile population.
Abstract
Due to the specificity of China's dualistic household registration system and the differences in the rights and interests attached to it, household registration is prevalent as a control variable in the empirical evidence. In the context of family planning policies, this paper proposes to use family size and number of children as instrumental variables for household registration, and discusses qualitatively and statistically verifies their relevance and exogeneity, while empirically analyzing the impact of the household registration system on citizenship of the mobile population. After controlling for city, individual control variables and fixed effects, the following conclusions are drawn: family size and number of children pass the over-identification test when used as instrumental variables for household registration; non-agricultural households have about 20.2% lower settlement…
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Taxonomy
TopicsDemographic Trends and Gender Preferences · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Migration and Labor Dynamics
