【摘要】 基于物质剥夺视角构建了农村老年人绝对贫困形成机制框架,利用来自河南和陕西两省216个村庄的大样本农户调查数据,通过五个维度的物质剥夺指标对农村老年人绝对贫困进行了直接测量,并进一步系统考察了经济资源和基本需要两个层面的因素对老年人绝对贫困的影响。结果发现,农村老年人在住房和医疗两个维度的剥夺比例最高。传统的收入贫困测量手段并不能准确识别出实际经历物质剥夺的农村贫困老年人。除了收入之外,不同类型的家庭资产、信贷支持、政府救助等其他经济资源都能有效缓解老年人物质剥夺状况。而独居和负面健康冲击则会显著提高老年人的剥夺发生率和严重程度。更多还原

【Abstract】 This paper develops a conceptual framework based on a material deprivation approach to explain elderly absolute poverty in rural China. Using a large household survey dataset from 216 villages in Henan and Shaanxi provinces and multidimensional material deprivation indicators,the study directly measures elderly absolute poverty and investigates the determinants of its incidence rate and severity. We find that among five dimensions of material deprivation,the incidence rates of housing and medical deprivation are much higher. There is a significant mismatch between poverty measured using a traditional income approach and poverty measured directly in terms of material deprivation indicators. Besides income,other economic resources,such as household assets,credit support,and public assistance,played a positive role in diminishing material deprivation. However,living alone and negative health shock substantially increased the risk and severity of material deprivation.更多还原