In current"post-poverty alleviation"era in China,our focus has shifted from eradicating absolute poverty to reducing mul-tidimensional and relative poverty.To explore how effective China's college expansion turn out to be in reducing multidimensional and relative poverty,this research,using the data from China Family Panel Studies(CFPS)(2018),constructed a difference-in-differences(DiD)model to analyze the impact of college expansion with various degrees of intensity across provinces on a sample birth cohort.It has been found that among the cohorts directly affected by college expansion,the multidimensional and relative poverty rate has been reduced by 17.6％.Even after changing the metrics for measuring explanatory variables,the model still produced remarkable results.College expansion helps to reduce poverty,because,as shown by our model,higher education improves an individual's non-cognitive skills and increases their social capital as well as employability in non-agricultural sector.However,college expansion turns out to be more effective in reducing poverty among female and non-farming cohorts raised by better-educated parents.Therefore,we need to pay more attention to equity in higher education to ensure equal success for all students.Only in that way can we maximize the role of higher education in poverty reduction.
college expansionrelative povertya birth cohorta difference-in-differences(DiD)modelpoverty reduction
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