The Capability Approach to Adolescent Poverty in China: Application of a Latent Class Model
After 2020, poverty alleviation in China will shift from eliminating absolute poverty to alleviating unbalanced and insufficient relative poverty. Based on Amartya Sen’s capability approach, this article aimed to realize the freedom of “capability” of children and ensure the well-being and developme...
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| author | Jiachang Gao Zenghui Huo Mei Zhang Baoqiang Liang |
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| description | After 2020, poverty alleviation in China will shift from eliminating absolute poverty to alleviating unbalanced and insufficient relative poverty. Based on Amartya Sen’s capability approach, this article aimed to realize the freedom of “capability” of children and ensure the well-being and development of Chinese adolescents, who are often ignored in child poverty research. The study sought to estimate the 10–15-year-olds in a multidimensional capabilities poverty group. Our analysis was based on the adolescent capability methodology framework, using data from the 2018 China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) to investigate the types and influencing factors of adolescent capability poverty in China. The result of latent class analysis showed that there are four types of capability poverty among the Chinese adolescents, namely, Extreme Capability Poverty Class, Goal Capability Poverty Class, Opportunity Capability Poverty Class, and Capability Non-Poverty Class. Multinomial logistic regression showed that the personal factors of gender, ethnic minority, hukou, and pocket money; the family factors of parents’ marital status, parents’ education level, and region of residence; and the family economic factor of per capita family income had a significant impact on the types of China’s adolescent capability poverty. The article provides empirical and quantitative evidence for the adolescent (ages 10–15) class of capability poverty. The findings provide a reference for policy makers to target poverty-alleviation efforts according to different types of poverty and to interrupt the intergenerational transmission of poverty. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-771d2b12b18546ce9530f96e9a8a43bb2023-11-23T14:31:55ZengMDPI AGAgriculture2077-04722022-08-01129131610.3390/agriculture12091316The Capability Approach to Adolescent Poverty in China: Application of a Latent Class ModelJiachang Gao0Zenghui Huo1Mei Zhang2Baoqiang Liang3College of Economics & Management, China Jiliang University, Hangzhou 310018, ChinaCollege of Economics & Management, China Jiliang University, Hangzhou 310018, ChinaCollege of Economics and Management, Zhejiang University of Water Resources and Electric Power, Hangzhou 310018, ChinaZhejiang Provincial Party School of CPC for Government Staff, Hangzhou 313100, ChinaAfter 2020, poverty alleviation in China will shift from eliminating absolute poverty to alleviating unbalanced and insufficient relative poverty. Based on Amartya Sen’s capability approach, this article aimed to realize the freedom of “capability” of children and ensure the well-being and development of Chinese adolescents, who are often ignored in child poverty research. The study sought to estimate the 10–15-year-olds in a multidimensional capabilities poverty group. Our analysis was based on the adolescent capability methodology framework, using data from the 2018 China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) to investigate the types and influencing factors of adolescent capability poverty in China. The result of latent class analysis showed that there are four types of capability poverty among the Chinese adolescents, namely, Extreme Capability Poverty Class, Goal Capability Poverty Class, Opportunity Capability Poverty Class, and Capability Non-Poverty Class. Multinomial logistic regression showed that the personal factors of gender, ethnic minority, hukou, and pocket money; the family factors of parents’ marital status, parents’ education level, and region of residence; and the family economic factor of per capita family income had a significant impact on the types of China’s adolescent capability poverty. The article provides empirical and quantitative evidence for the adolescent (ages 10–15) class of capability poverty. The findings provide a reference for policy makers to target poverty-alleviation efforts according to different types of poverty and to interrupt the intergenerational transmission of poverty.https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/12/9/1316relative povertycapability povertylatent class analysismultinomial logistic model |
| spellingShingle | Jiachang Gao Zenghui Huo Mei Zhang Baoqiang Liang The Capability Approach to Adolescent Poverty in China: Application of a Latent Class Model Agriculture relative poverty capability poverty latent class analysis multinomial logistic model |
| title | The Capability Approach to Adolescent Poverty in China: Application of a Latent Class Model |
| title_full | The Capability Approach to Adolescent Poverty in China: Application of a Latent Class Model |
| title_fullStr | The Capability Approach to Adolescent Poverty in China: Application of a Latent Class Model |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Capability Approach to Adolescent Poverty in China: Application of a Latent Class Model |
| title_short | The Capability Approach to Adolescent Poverty in China: Application of a Latent Class Model |
| title_sort | capability approach to adolescent poverty in china application of a latent class model |
| topic | relative poverty capability poverty latent class analysis multinomial logistic model |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/12/9/1316 |
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