Using data from the China Household Income Project in 2013 and 2018, this paper studies relative poverty among rural hukou holders living in urban China and urban hukou holders. People living in households with an income below a fixed percent of the median per-capita income and wealth below the...

In transforming from a traditional rural to an urban-rural integration period, it is essential to revisit the role of social capital in poor rural areas. Few micro-based studies have directly explored the relationship between multiple shocks, social capital, and households' coping strategies in...

China has made great efforts to alleviate poverty in rural ethnic minority areas and targeted achieving the poverty-alleviation task by the end of 2020. Aba, Ganzi, and Liangshan, three of the poorest ethnic prefectures in Sichuan Province, Southwest China, have all implemented "Internet+"...