Can the construction of smart cities promote inclusive sharing?Thinking based on the digital divide
"General prosperity"and"inclusive sharing"are essential connotations of common prosperity.The positive contribution of smart cities to general prosperity has been widely demonstrated,but the evidence on the impact of inclusive sharing is inconclusive.Based on the thinking of digital divide,the study argues that the digital-access divide caused by the unequal distribution of digital resources and the digital-use divide caused by digital technology bias are the fundamental hindrances to inclusive sharing in the process of smart city construction.The study develops the theoretical mechanism by which the construction of smart cities impacts inclusive sharing from the perspectives of government,enterprise,and labor.Inclusive sharing is measured along three dimensions:the urban-rural gap,the regional gap,and public-service inclusiveness.The causal effect of smart city pilot policies on inclusive sharing is evaluated using a double-fixed staggered difference-in-differences model.The study finds that the construction of smart cities has a significant negative impact on inclusive sharing.The heterogeneity analysis shows that the construction of smart cities has a significant inhibitory effect on the level of inclusive sharing in cities in the southern region and in non-urban agglomerations,and it widens the regional gap of inclusive sharing.Mechanism testing shows that the construction of smart cities inhibits inclusive sharing by strengthening the digital-divide effect of digital government construction,enterprise digital innovation,and digital-talent agglomeration.It shows that we need to pay greater attention to the digital divide in the construction of smart cities,or it will become a huge obstacle to promoting common prosperity.
construction of smart citiesinclusive sharingdigital dividecommon prosperitystaggered DID
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