How education reduces urban relative poverty? Evidence from China

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Abstract
Previous studies mainly focus on absolute poverty in China. However, the rate of relative poverty of Chinese urban residents has reached 23.90% in 2018. This paper investigates the mechanism for reducing urban relative poverty through education. Findings are that the increase of family education years can help urban households get rid of relative poverty through the indirect way of improving social capital. Further study finds that greater influence of Confucian culture and weaker marketization degree will result in stronger mediating role of social capital between education and poverty reduction.
Funding Information
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China (71803037)
  • Special Research Program for Reform of New Economics of Hebei University of Economics and Business in 2020 (2020XCJ06)

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