Introduction: In this study, economic, social effective factors and government infrastructural funds on rural migration in Iran has been studied.

Method: In order to the relationship between migration and government budgets in economic and social affairs in rural areas was investigated by autoregressive distributed lag method.

Findings: The results showed that each of economic - social and government expenditure factors have different effects on rural migration. Government strategies should tend on investments that have a positive effect on migration reduction. On the contrary, expectation can be observed in the long term by increasing the government budget in development and modernization in rural regions not only will not decrease migration, but rises. Also it is considered that the government economic budget in the agricultural sector don’t affect on reducing or not increasing migration.

Discussion: According to the findings, an appropriate policy analysis in improving efficiency of government investment in rural regions is essential to reduce migration.