Digital New Quality Productivity and Increasing Farmers'Income:Theoretical Analysis and Empirical Evidence
Promoting new quality productivity is an inherent requirement and important focus for high-quality develop-ment,and enhancingthe productivity has an important impact on thesustainable increase of farmers'income.Based on the data of 30 provinces in China from 2012 to 2022,this paper constructs a fixed effect model and a Spatial Dubin mod-el to explore the impact,mechanism and spatial spillover effect of digital new quality productivity on farmers'income increase from theoretical and empirical perspectives.It is found that the digital new quality productivity can significant-ly promote the improvement of farmers'income level,and it still holds after a series of robustness tests.The results of the mechanism test show that digital new quality productivity can realize the great increase through three channels:farmers'entrepreneurial activity,urbanization level and non-agricultural employment.Heterogeneity analysis shows that digital new quality productivity has a positive effect on farmers'income level in economically underdeveloped areas,with low material capital and low human capital.Further research shows that the effect of digital new quality productivity on farmers'income increase has spatial spillover effect.Based on this,it is proposed to develop digital agriculture and pro-mote the formation of digital new quality productivity enabled by digital elements.In addition,promote"digital busi-ness to develop agriculture",and release the income increasing effect of digital new quality productivity;What's more,formulate dynamic and differentiated development standards,and leverage the spatial spillover effect of digital new quality productivity.
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