This research uses large-scale survey datasets to understand the targeting performance, anti-poverty effectiveness, and impacts of social assistance policies and programs on family consumption, human capital investment, social participation, citizens’ assessment of government performance, and subjective well-being of participants. Poverty is estimated based on multiple poverty lines and using a variety of measures including income, consumption, assets, subjective well-being, social capabilities, and multidimensional poverty. Special emphases are placed on vulnerable populations such as children and the elders as well as welfare-to-work transition.
Current lab members working on the project: Qin Gao, Huawei Han, Sam Han, Qianfeng Lin, Yi Wang, Sui Yang, Fuhua Zhai, and Shu Zeng.
