Has the Construction of Digital Countryside Enhanced Farmers'Sense of Access,Happiness and Security?
Enhancing farmers'sense of access,happiness and security("three senses of people's liveli-hood")is an important tool to realize the common prosperity of farmers and rural areas.This paper examines the impact of digital rural construction on farmers'"three senses of livelihood"and its mechanism of action based on the matched data of the 2018 and 2020 county digital Countryside indexes and the China Family Panel Studies(CFPS),using a high-dimensional fixed-effects model.The study finds that the digital Country-side construction significantly improves farmers'"three senses of livelihood".This enhancement effect is mainly reflected in the farmers'sense of acquisition,while the enhancement effect on the sense of happiness and sense of security is not obvious,and there exists the phenomenon of objective acquisition and subjective perception deviation.Further analysis reveals that there are also differences in the enhancement effects of the four sub-dimensions of digital Countryside construction,among which the digitalization of rural economy and rural governance have obvious enhancement effects on farmers'sense of acquisition.Mechanism analysis shows that digital Countryside construction mainly affects farmers'"three senses of livelihood"through the mechanisms of improving farmers'digital literacy,increasing the level of"labor-type"non-farm employment and consumption The"entrepreneurial"non-farm employment mechanism has not played a significant role.The above enhancement effect of digital Countryside construction is more obvious for farmers in the western region,with a high density of social networks,a high level of human capital and a low level of the"three senses of livelihood"To this end,we should promote the construction of network information security systems,enrich farmers'financing channels,and give full play to the positive effect of digital countryside construction on farmers'"three senses of people's livelihood".
Digital CountrysideSense of Access,Happiness and SecurityDigital LiteracyNon-Farm Em-ploymentConsumption