Based on China migrants dynamic survey from 2014 to 2018 and the environmental regulation data at the prefecture-level city level, we examine the impact of environmental regulation on the incomes of the urban agricultural migrants. The empirical results show that environmental regulatory stringency significantly reduces the average income of the urban agricultural migrants. When environmental regulatory stringency increases by 1 unit, the incomes of the urban agricultural migrants decrease by about 8%. Based on the results of a series of robustness tests, the reliability of the conclusion is further confirmed. The heterogeneity analysis shows that the negative effect of environmental regulation on the incomes of urban agricultural migrants is more obvious in east and west region, polluting industries and low-skilled labor. Mechanism analysis shows that environmental regulation has a negative impact on the income of urban agricultural migrants by reducing their working hours and productivity. Considering that the urban agricultural migrants with different income levels is affected differently by environmental regulation, the grouped iv quantile regression method is used to further analyze the impact of environmental regulation on the income distribution of the urban agricultural migrants. Environmental regulation reduces the average incomes of the middle-income urban agricultural migrants and increases the average incomes of the highest income quintiles of urban agricultural migrants.
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