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Digitalization's Effects on Income Growth and Distribution——Evidence from the CHDES Database

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Using the CHDES database,we created the CIDI to comprehensively quantify digital adoption at the individual level and examine digitalization's impact on individual income.Empirical analysis results indicate that increasing the CIDI by one standard deviation(0.13)improves individual income by 5.93 percentage points,which remains true after a series of endogeneity and robustness tests.In the heterogeneity analysis,we discovered that when digital adoption grows,residents in the countryside and county seats can earn more money through internet business operations and other channels.This helps to decrease the urban-rural income divide,but it has also pushed those digitally skilled into high-paying sectors,widening the income gaps between sectors.In the mechanism analysis,we developed an income function that takes into account the individual level of digitalization to show that digitalization can boost income by increasing working hours or labor participation and adjusting the portfolio of individual material,human,and social capital.In this paper we have expanded the system for measuring the individual levels of digitalization by offering basic data,research methodology,and policy suggestions for the digital economy'inclusive development.

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Huang Yanghua、Zhang Jiajia、Cai Yuhan、Zhang Jinshuo

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School of Applied Economics,Renmin University of China,Beijing,China

Scientific Research Fund of Renmin University of China(Special Funding Support of the Basic Scientific Research Fund for CenMajor Task Project of the Theoretical and Social Science Research of the Ministry of Education

22XNA04022J2D013

2024

10.19602/j.chinaeconomist.2024.07.03

中国经济学人(英文版)

中国经济学人(英文版)

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年,卷(期)：2024.19(4)
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