Why Digital Divide Exacerbate Inequality of Agricultural Product Sales Income for Mountainous Farming Households?
Based on the micro-survey data of 522 farm households in the pilot counties of digital villages in Guizhou Province in 2023,we empirically analysed the impact and mechanism of the digital divide on the inequality of sales income from agricultural products in mountainous areas,and further explored its heterogeneity.Reaserch results show:The digital divide significantly reduces the sales income and wid-ens the gap in sales income of agricultural products between the low-and middle-income households and high-income households,and there is a significant horse-trading effect between households;The digital usage gap intensifies markedly the disparity in sales income.Conversely,the digital access gap and the digital knowledge gap exert a relatively minimal influence on the inequality of sales income of agricultural products among mountainous farmers;The digital divide can increase farmers'transaction costs through the intermediary role of hindering access to information channels and reducing farmers'bargaining power,making it impossible for mountainous farmers to enjoy the digital dividend and further exacerbating the in-equality sales income;Heterogeneity analysis shows that,compared with the ederly group,the high hu-man capital group,large-scale operating farmers and non-agricultural employed farmers,the digital di-vide has deeped the inequality in sales revenue of the youth group,the low human capital group,small-scale operating farmers and agricultural employed farmers in mountainous areas.
digital dividemountainous farmersmarketing of agricultural productsincome inequalitycommon prosperity
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