Analysis of the Effect of Social Capital on Household Poverty: Evidence from 2018 CFPS

AbstractIn the post-poverty eradication era, it is still important to increase the monitoring of urban and rural residents ’ poverty status and succession of poverty alleviation and protection policies. Taking social capital as the entry point, this paper uses the 2018 CFPS database to study the impact of social capital on household poverty, urban–rural heterogeneity, and the moderating effect of economic developmen t, in order to provide a policy reference for further consolidating the results of poverty eradication. The results find that social capital can significantly reduce the probability of household poverty, and the poverty reduction effect on urban households is greater than that on rural households, w hile the level of economic development has a significant moderating effect on the reduction of relative poverty by social capital. The higher the level of economic development, the stronger the effect of social capital on the reduction of relative poverty of households. Accordingly, this paper propo ses to play a leading role of the government, tilt infrastructure resources to rural and central and western regions, cultivate public spirit of urban residents, and create a favorable social media environment to increase social capital of urban and rural households; build official employment servic e platforms, actively cooperate with third parties, promote information sharing, and broaden employment channels for residents; and develop the economy and make a bigger “...
Source: Global Social Welfare - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research