The Capability Approach to Adolescent Poverty in China: Application of a Latent Class Model

After 2020, poverty alleviation in China will shift from eliminating absolute to alleviating unbalanced and insufficient relative poverty. Based on Amartya Sen’s capability approach, this article aimed realize the freedom of “capability” children ensure well-being development Chinese adolescents, who are often ignored child research. The study sought estimate 10–15-year-olds a multidimensional capabilities group. Our analysis was based adolescent methodology framework, using data 2018 Family Panel Studies (CFPS) investigate types influencing factors China. result latent class showed that there four among namely, Extreme Capability Poverty Class, Goal Opportunity Non-Poverty Class. Multinomial logistic regression personal gender, ethnic minority, hukou, pocket money; family parents’ marital status, education level, region residence; economic factor per capita income had significant impact China’s provides empirical quantitative evidence for (ages 10–15) findings provide reference policy makers target poverty-alleviation efforts according different interrupt intergenerational transmission