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In 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 development, 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, while 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 proposes 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 service platforms, actively cooperate with third parties, promote information sharing, and broaden employment channels for residents; and develop the economy and make a bigger “cake” to promote the role of social capital in poverty reduction.
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The higher the score in the original questionnaire of 2018CFPS, the worse the health condition. For the convenience of the study, the order of the assigned values was changed in the data processing. In this paper, the higher the score, the better the health condition.
This paper defines single status to include unmarried, divorced, and widowed, and non-single status to include married (with a spouse), and cohabiting.
According to the classification of the National Bureau of Statistics for the East, Middle and West regions, the Eastern region: Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Liaoning, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Shandong, Guangdong and Hainan; the Central region: Shanxi, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, Henan, Hubei and Hunan; the Western region: Sichuan, Chongqing, Guizhou, Yunnan, Tibet, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia, Xinjiang, Guangxi and Inner Mongolia.
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Wu, Y., Guo, Z. Analysis of the Effect of Social Capital on Household Poverty: Evidence from 2018 CFPS. Glob Soc Welf (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40609-023-00269-8
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