Impact of the Digital Economy on Agricultural Productive Services:Perspectives from Non-agricultural Employment and Factor Supply
This research,utilizing panel data from 213 prefecture-level cities between 2003 and 2019,employs smart city pilots as a quasi-natural experiment in evaluating digital economy growth.A multi-timepoint difference-in-differences model was developed to empirically assess how the digital economy impacts the agricultural productive service sector.The study confirms that the digital economy significantly fosters this sector's growth,with robustness evident after various validation methods like parallel trend analysis and placebo tests.A dual perspective analysis,focusing on both demand and supply,reveals key pathways for this impact:fostering non-agricultural employment and enhancing the availability of capital,technology,and information.This positive influence is especially noticeable in China's eastern regions and in cities with advanced traditional infrastructure and extensive cultivation practices.Additionally,the study highlights a critical threshold effect of urbanization in the digital economy-agricultural productive service industry nexus.The digital economy's beneficial role in this sector's development becomes pronounced only when urbanization—in terms of population,industry,and land—reaches a certain level.
Digital EconomySmart CitiesAgricultural Productive ServicesNon-agricultural EmploymentQuasi-natural Experiments
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