Baorong Guo
Biographic Data
| ID | 4102306 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Baorong Guo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Baorong |
| FAMILY NAME | Guo |
| SIGNATURE | GUO B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Missouri–St. Louis |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7416-7300 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 91 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Child Tax Credit access for low-income families
Financial Well-Being of the Non-Profit Social Service Workforce in China
Using secondary data from the 2017 online survey of 736 non-profit social service employees in urban China, this study provides a complete description of the financial well-being of the non-profit social service workforce and examines correlates of financial well-being. Results show that non-profit employees’ household income is lower than the disposable income of a typical urban household. Nearly one-third of social service professionals have sh…
South Korean nonprofits under the voucher system
The social service industry in South Korea is undergoing significant changes as the Korean government has changed its approach to financing social services from direct funding support for service providers to voucher programs. This market-oriented policy has forced social service nonprofits to adopt the market practice and culture. As a result, nonprofits are becoming business-like entities striving for a share of the social service market. This …
The Hutubi Model
Created to address some of the limitations in China's rural retirement insurance policy, the Hutubi Model represents an innovative approach to asset building. A key feature of the model, the Hutubi loan programme, operated in Hutubi County, Xinjiang, China, from 1998 to 2010. It allowed farmers in Hutubi to borrow against their rural retirement accounts, taking loans for investment in farming and other priorities. This study examines the institut…
Asset Poverty in Urban China
Defining asset poverty as insufficiency of assets to satisfy household basic needs for a limited period of time, the study examines asset-poverty rates in urban China using the 2002 survey data from the Chinese Household Income Project (CHIP). We find that asset-poverty rates in urban China are lower than those of developed countries, in part due to Chinese households' strong commitment to precautionary savings and the low poverty standards. Howe…
Young children's perceptions of college and saving
Parental income, assets, borrowing constraints and children's post-secondary education
Food insecurity and disability
Household assets and health in China
China’s health care reform of the 1990s has not yielded much success. The market-oriented health system has resulted in declines in fairness of health services and efficiency of investment in the health sector. Further health care reform will be required. Among many options, asset-based policy has demonstrated some potential in domestic policy development. To provide evidence to inform health policy development in China, this study focuses on eff…
Asset‐based policy in rural China
In response to growing rural–urban inequality, China is undertaking a series of policy initiatives to promote rural development. In addition to redistributive policy aiming at social protection, asset‐based policy, which integrates social protection and social investment, are a viable option for progressive rural development. In 1998, the Hutubi local government in Xinjiang, China, implemented an innovative retirement programme that allows accoun…
From Concentration to Dispersion
In China, there has seen a significant increase in the disability employment rate over the past 20 years, largely due to socioeconomic growth factors and disability employment policy development. Extant research has failed to account for the systemic policy and socioeconomic changes that have radically changed the employment landscape for persons with disabilities in China over the past three decades. An examination of disability employment in Ch…
A Cultural Perspective on Health Outcomes of Caregiving Grandparents
Purpose: Three-generation extended family households still constitute a fairly large proportion of households in China. This study aims to understand intergenerational relationships in Chinese families by examining health outcomes of grandparents that provide caregiving to their grandchildren.Design and Methods: Data are from the Survey on Aging and Intergenerational Relations in Baoding City, China. Multiple regressions are conducted to examine …
Dual Incentives and Dual Asset Building
The Hutubi Rural Social Security Loan programme is a policy innovation in a rural area of China, which loans savings in social security accounts back to peasants for them to buy assets for agricultural and other development. In contrast to the nationwide recession in rural social security, this programme has shown its success in proliferating rural social security funds and retaining social security participants. With a focus on the administrativ…
A common open space or a digital divide? A social model perspective on the online disability community in China
This paper explores the use and impact of the Internet by disabled people in China, informed by the social model of disability. Based on survey data from 122 disabled individuals across 25 provinces in China, study findings suggest that there is an emerging digital divide in the use of Internet amongst the disability community in China. Internet users in our study do not appear to be representative of most disabled people in China. For the minori…
A common open space or a digital divide? A social model perspective on the online disability community in China
This paper explores the use and impact of the Internet by disabled people in China, informed by the social model of disability. Based on survey data from 122 disabled individuals across 25 provinces in China, study findings suggest that there is an emerging digital divide in the use of Internet amongst the disability community in China. Internet users in our study do not appear to be representative of most disabled people in China. For the minori…
Parental income, assets, borrowing constraints and children's post-secondary education
Food insecurity and disability
From Concentration to Dispersion
In China, there has seen a significant increase in the disability employment rate over the past 20 years, largely due to socioeconomic growth factors and disability employment policy development. Extant research has failed to account for the systemic policy and socioeconomic changes that have radically changed the employment landscape for persons with disabilities in China over the past three decades. An examination of disability employment in Ch…
Asset‐based policy in rural China
In response to growing rural–urban inequality, China is undertaking a series of policy initiatives to promote rural development. In addition to redistributive policy aiming at social protection, asset‐based policy, which integrates social protection and social investment, are a viable option for progressive rural development. In 1998, the Hutubi local government in Xinjiang, China, implemented an innovative retirement programme that allows accoun…
A Cultural Perspective on Health Outcomes of Caregiving Grandparents
Purpose: Three-generation extended family households still constitute a fairly large proportion of households in China. This study aims to understand intergenerational relationships in Chinese families by examining health outcomes of grandparents that provide caregiving to their grandchildren.Design and Methods: Data are from the Survey on Aging and Intergenerational Relations in Baoding City, China. Multiple regressions are conducted to examine …
Young children's perceptions of college and saving
Asset Poverty in Urban China
Defining asset poverty as insufficiency of assets to satisfy household basic needs for a limited period of time, the study examines asset-poverty rates in urban China using the 2002 survey data from the Chinese Household Income Project (CHIP). We find that asset-poverty rates in urban China are lower than those of developed countries, in part due to Chinese households' strong commitment to precautionary savings and the low poverty standards. Howe…
Dual Incentives and Dual Asset Building
The Hutubi Rural Social Security Loan programme is a policy innovation in a rural area of China, which loans savings in social security accounts back to peasants for them to buy assets for agricultural and other development. In contrast to the nationwide recession in rural social security, this programme has shown its success in proliferating rural social security funds and retaining social security participants. With a focus on the administrativ…
South Korean nonprofits under the voucher system
The social service industry in South Korea is undergoing significant changes as the Korean government has changed its approach to financing social services from direct funding support for service providers to voucher programs. This market-oriented policy has forced social service nonprofits to adopt the market practice and culture. As a result, nonprofits are becoming business-like entities striving for a share of the social service market. This …
Household assets and health in China
China’s health care reform of the 1990s has not yielded much success. The market-oriented health system has resulted in declines in fairness of health services and efficiency of investment in the health sector. Further health care reform will be required. Among many options, asset-based policy has demonstrated some potential in domestic policy development. To provide evidence to inform health policy development in China, this study focuses on eff…
A common open space or a digital divide? A social model perspective on the online disability community in China
This paper explores the use and impact of the Internet by disabled people in China, informed by the social model of disability. Based on survey data from 122 disabled individuals across 25 provinces in China, study findings suggest that there is an emerging digital divide in the use of Internet amongst the disability community in China. Internet users in our study do not appear to be representative of most disabled people in China. For the minori…
Asset‐based policy in rural China
In response to growing rural–urban inequality, China is undertaking a series of policy initiatives to promote rural development. In addition to redistributive policy aiming at social protection, asset‐based policy, which integrates social protection and social investment, are a viable option for progressive rural development. In 1998, the Hutubi local government in Xinjiang, China, implemented an innovative retirement programme that allows accoun…
From Concentration to Dispersion
In China, there has seen a significant increase in the disability employment rate over the past 20 years, largely due to socioeconomic growth factors and disability employment policy development. Extant research has failed to account for the systemic policy and socioeconomic changes that have radically changed the employment landscape for persons with disabilities in China over the past three decades. An examination of disability employment in Ch…
A Cultural Perspective on Health Outcomes of Caregiving Grandparents
Purpose: Three-generation extended family households still constitute a fairly large proportion of households in China. This study aims to understand intergenerational relationships in Chinese families by examining health outcomes of grandparents that provide caregiving to their grandchildren.Design and Methods: Data are from the Survey on Aging and Intergenerational Relations in Baoding City, China. Multiple regressions are conducted to examine …
Dual Incentives and Dual Asset Building
The Hutubi Rural Social Security Loan programme is a policy innovation in a rural area of China, which loans savings in social security accounts back to peasants for them to buy assets for agricultural and other development. In contrast to the nationwide recession in rural social security, this programme has shown its success in proliferating rural social security funds and retaining social security participants. With a focus on the administrativ…
Household assets and health in China
China’s health care reform of the 1990s has not yielded much success. The market-oriented health system has resulted in declines in fairness of health services and efficiency of investment in the health sector. Further health care reform will be required. Among many options, asset-based policy has demonstrated some potential in domestic policy development. To provide evidence to inform health policy development in China, this study focuses on eff…
Young children's perceptions of college and saving
Parental income, assets, borrowing constraints and children's post-secondary education
Food insecurity and disability
The Hutubi Model
Created to address some of the limitations in China's rural retirement insurance policy, the Hutubi Model represents an innovative approach to asset building. A key feature of the model, the Hutubi loan programme, operated in Hutubi County, Xinjiang, China, from 1998 to 2010. It allowed farmers in Hutubi to borrow against their rural retirement accounts, taking loans for investment in farming and other priorities. This study examines the institut…
Asset Poverty in Urban China
Defining asset poverty as insufficiency of assets to satisfy household basic needs for a limited period of time, the study examines asset-poverty rates in urban China using the 2002 survey data from the Chinese Household Income Project (CHIP). We find that asset-poverty rates in urban China are lower than those of developed countries, in part due to Chinese households' strong commitment to precautionary savings and the low poverty standards. Howe…
South Korean nonprofits under the voucher system
The social service industry in South Korea is undergoing significant changes as the Korean government has changed its approach to financing social services from direct funding support for service providers to voucher programs. This market-oriented policy has forced social service nonprofits to adopt the market practice and culture. As a result, nonprofits are becoming business-like entities striving for a share of the social service market. This …
Financial Well-Being of the Non-Profit Social Service Workforce in China
Using secondary data from the 2017 online survey of 736 non-profit social service employees in urban China, this study provides a complete description of the financial well-being of the non-profit social service workforce and examines correlates of financial well-being. Results show that non-profit employees’ household income is lower than the disposable income of a typical urban household. Nearly one-third of social service professionals have sh…
Child Tax Credit access for low-income families
Economics (10 works) · China (9 works) · Economic growth (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Finance (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Demographic economics (4 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (4 works) · Medicine (4 works)