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How education reduces urban relative poverty? Evidence from China
Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, 2023Previous 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
Kun Zhang, Shu-Xun Cai, Yuanyuan Wang
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Community Mental Health Journal, 2021
This study examines the cumulative effects of poverty on children's socio-emotional outcomes from ages 5 to 12, using U.S. National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data (N = 6941). Two definitions of poverty were used: absolute poverty as defined by the federal poverty threshold, and relative poverty defined as income less than 50 percent of median ...
Kyunghee Lee, Liangliang Zhang
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This study examines the cumulative effects of poverty on children's socio-emotional outcomes from ages 5 to 12, using U.S. National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data (N = 6941). Two definitions of poverty were used: absolute poverty as defined by the federal poverty threshold, and relative poverty defined as income less than 50 percent of median ...
Kyunghee Lee, Liangliang Zhang
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Intelligence, 2021
The relationship between PISA 2012 maths test scores and relative poverty was tested in a sample of 35 Italian and Spanish regions, together with a larger sample that included Australian, Belgian, and Canadian regions. The correlation between mean scores
V. Daniele
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The relationship between PISA 2012 maths test scores and relative poverty was tested in a sample of 35 Italian and Spanish regions, together with a larger sample that included Australian, Belgian, and Canadian regions. The correlation between mean scores
V. Daniele
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Geographical indication, agricultural development and the alleviation of rural relative poverty
Sustainable DevelopmentSustainable development is the power source to promote rural economic and social prosperity and the necessary guarantee for rural revitalization, while rural relative poverty alleviation is the inherent requirement for promoting sustainable development ...
Sihui Zhang +3 more
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International Journal of Child Abuse & Neglect, 2021
BACKGROUND Despite substantial evidence in developed countries showing that child maltreatment can lead to serious life-long consequences, relatively few studies so far have examined the associations between childhood maltreatment and adulthood outcomes ...
Xiaodong Zheng +3 more
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BACKGROUND Despite substantial evidence in developed countries showing that child maltreatment can lead to serious life-long consequences, relatively few studies so far have examined the associations between childhood maltreatment and adulthood outcomes ...
Xiaodong Zheng +3 more
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Social Service Review, 1978
This is a comment on an apparent contradiction in conclusions reached in two articles in the September 1977 issue of Social Service Review. In her discussion in "The Level of the Poverty Line: A Historical Survey," Diana Karter Appelbaum concludes "that the poverty standard has not only risen as the American standard of living has risen, but that it ...
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This is a comment on an apparent contradiction in conclusions reached in two articles in the September 1977 issue of Social Service Review. In her discussion in "The Level of the Poverty Line: A Historical Survey," Diana Karter Appelbaum concludes "that the poverty standard has not only risen as the American standard of living has risen, but that it ...
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Poverty: absolute or relative?
Journal of Applied Philosophy, 1988ABSTRACT In recent decades poverty has been defined as a relative rather than absolute notion. Those in poverty have been seen as poor relative to a level of income, or social condition, accepted as average or normal for a society. Poverty has been redefined as ‘relative deprivation’.
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Absolute and relative income poverty measurement: a survey
2023This chapter reviews the debate opposing the absolute and relative approaches to income poverty measurement and introduces a proposal combining both approaches into a single “overall” income poverty measure. After presenting the most salient proposals of hybrid poverty lines, the chapter justifies with reasons why specific poverty indices may be ...
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Poverty comparisons with common relative poverty lines
Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 2016Relative poverty lines are increasingly being used in poverty comparison studies. Existing methods assume that the distributions being compared are distinct with independent relative poverty lines....
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Rethinking relative measures of poverty
Journal of European Social Policy, 2006This paper attempts to develop an alternative measure for relative poverty. The aim is to combine information both on the depth of poverty and the number of people living in poverty. We seek, moreover, to establish a yardstick that would be relatively simple and easy to understand, so as to facilitate the use of such a new method in sociological ...
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