Digital Economy,Upgrading of Industrial Structure and Agricultural Carbon Emissions——Empirical Analysis Based on 62 Prefecture-level Cities in the Yellow River Basin
The close integration of digital economy with rural development provides opportunities for the green and low-carbon transformation of agriculture.This study used the panel data of 62 prefecture-level cities in the Yellow River Basin from 2011 to 2021,empirically examined the effect,mechanism,and regional heterogeneity of digital economy on carbon emissions using fixed-effect model,mediating effect model and threshold effect model.The research found that the development of digital economy had significant negative effects on agricultural carbon emissions,and industrial structure upgrading played an obvious intermediary role in the transmission mechanism of digital economy promoting agricultural carbon emission reductions.In addition,digital economy had threshold effects on regional agricultural carbon emissions.The agricultural carbon emission reduction effects were stronger in regions with relatively advanced digital economy development level and industrial structure upgrading level.Regional regression had clear regional heterogeneity.The agricultural carbon emission reduction effect of digital economy was more significant in the middle and downstream regions.The agricultural carbon emission reduction effect of the downstream was stronger than that in the middle stream because of the"digital dividend".
digital economyupgrading of industrial structureagriculture carbon emissionmediation effect
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