Study on Effect of Digital Inequality on Economic Resilience of Rural Household
As digital technologies continue to permeate rural areas,the issue of digital inequality among households has become increasingly prominent.This paper expounds upon the pathways through which digital inequality affects the economic resilience of rural households from four perspectives:digital access,information acquisition,learning development,and entertainment interaction.Using data from the China Family Panel Studies(CFPS)for the years 2014,2016,and 2018,a fixed-effects model is constructed for empirical analysis.The research findings suggest that digital inequality significantly reduces the economic resilience of rural households.This result remains robust even after addressing endogeneity through instrumental variable methods,employing threshold replacement,and trimming methods.Results based on different dimensions indicate that digital access inequality,information acquisition inequality,and entertainment interaction inequality all have significant negative impacts on rural household economic resilience,while the impact of learning development inequality is weak.Heterogeneity analysis demonstrates that the impact of digital inequality on rural household economic resilience is more pronounced in Eastern and Western regions,but insignificant in Central regions.Therefore,it is crucial to expedite the improvement of rural information infrastructure,promote the growth of rural online culture,initroduce digital literacy education in rural areas,consisently mitigate digital inequality among households,and enhance rural household economic resilience.
digital inequalityrural household economic resilienceCFPS
NETL
NSTL
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