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Poverty and quality of life of C hinese children: From the perspective of deprivation
Author(s) -
Wong YuCheung,
Wang TingYan,
Xu Yuebin
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
international journal of social welfare
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.664
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1468-2397
pISSN - 1369-6866
DOI - 10.1111/ijsw.12115
Subject(s) - poverty , disadvantaged , child poverty , perspective (graphical) , socioeconomic status , social deprivation , psychology , social exclusion , capability approach , developmental psychology , sociology , economic growth , economics , demography , population , artificial intelligence , computer science
Using data from the F amily and C hildren S urvey of B eijing 2011 , the authors constructed a child poverty measure – C hild D eprivation I ndicators ( CDI s) – and explored the relationship between poverty and children's quality of life. The CDI s were found to be a more valid child poverty measure than the conventional measure which is based mainly on individuals' social assistance status. The findings show that deprived children are worse off in terms of living conditions. Furthermore, deprived boys and girls are disadvantaged differently; boys in self‐efficacy and girls in physical development. The findings have four important implications: (i) policy makers should look beyond those on social assistance; (ii) more public funding should be invested in deprived children's informal education and social interaction; (iii) dealing with structural problems relating to parents' socioeconomic status (SES) would be helpful to alleviate child deprivation; (iv) different types of support should be provided to deprived boys and girls for their disadvantages are not identical.