Research Article

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

Table 6

Poverty-reduction effect of insured-subsamples’ receiving the NRPS income.

VariablePooled cross section dataPanel data sample
(1) pension(2) lpension_amount(3) pension(4) lpension_amount

Multipoverty−0.0055 (0.0369)−0.0031 (0.0052)0.0001 (0.0135)−0.0008 (0.0019)
Lifepoverty−0.0656 (0.0313)−0.0117 (0.0043)−0.0013 (0.0134)−0.0011 (0.0019)
Healthpoverty0.1379 (0.0332)0.0162 (0.0046)0.0051 (0.0155)0.0004 (0.0022)
Socialpoverty−0.0414 (0.0341)−0.0066 (0.0047)−0.0096 (0.0146)−0.0011 (0.0020)
Swell-beingpoverty−0.0262 (0.0326)−0.0038 (0.0045)−0.0150 (0.0155)−0.0018 (0.0022)
Province fixedYesYesYesYes
Year fixedYesYesYesYes
Number of PID116091160960466046
Observations19625196251406514065

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 FE model uses a sample of at least two-period observations and contains 6,046 individuals (PID).