How the digital divide influences poverty reduction and inclusiveness in the development of the digital economy is a major issue to be addressed in the process of achieving common prosperity.With the household micro-panel data from the China Household Finance Survey(CHFS),this study distinguished the digital divides into the access divide,utilization divide,and capability divide,and investigated the relationship between digital divides and household income disparities.The results showed that the existence of multiple digital divides had a negative impact on the household income disparities.Eliminating only the access and uti-lization divides was insufficient to alleviate the household income disparities.Only by further addressing the capability divide can the household income disparities be solved.Therefore,it is necessary to promote the building of digital infrastructures and the popularization of digital technologies,establish family digital use sce-narios and long-term guarantee mechanism,and be vigilant against adverse factors such as the capability di-vide caused by the expansion of differences in conventional characteristics that is brought about by the digital economy.These measures will promote all people to share the development dividends of the digital era and help achieve common prosperity in high-quality development.
Digital EconomyAccess DivideUtilization DivideCapability DivideCommon Prosperity
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