Research Article

Reducing Multidimensional Poverty of Elderly: The Role of the New Rural Pension Scheme in China

Table 5

Poverty-reduction of receiving behavior (age: 60+).

VariableMultipovertyLifepovertyHealthpovertySocialpovertySwell-beingpoverty
(1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)

Pension−0.1736 (0.0288)−0.0726 (0.0288)−0.1217 (0.0287)−0.0745 (0.0304)−0.0514 (0.0289)
Pen_time (only 2012)−0.1077 (0.0226)−0.0897 (0.0233)−0.0892 (0.0228)−0.0404 (0.0228)−0.0464 (0.0210)
Constant0.5567 (0.2258)0.6358 (0.3924)1.8477 (0.2290)1.4686 (0.4213)−1.6127 (0.2246)−1.5869 (0.7659)0.6259 (0.2363)0.3418 (0.7493)0.9061 (0.2248)0.1822 (0.3756)
ControlsYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYes
Province fixedYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYes
Year fixedYesYesYesYesYes
Pseudo R20.07570.07030.12930.15380.09560.05610.04290.04110.07490.0536
Observations114543279114543298114543304114543304114543298

Note: robust standard errors in brackets. The symbols , , and indicate statistical significance at the 10%, 5% and 1% levels, respectively. And the control variables are the same as in Table 4. The variable pen_time is only observed in 2012, so the year effect is not controlled.