Digital Literacy and Rural Household Income:The Formation of Digital Inequality
This paper empirically examines the effect of digital literacy on rural household income growth based on the data of the 2021 China Rural Economy and Rural Finance Survey.The results show that the improvement of digital literacy significantly promotes the growth of rural household income.Further mechanism analysis finds that the improvement of digital literacy significantly promotes entrepreneurial activities of farmers and eases credit constraints of farmers,leading to income growth of farmers.It is worth noting that this growth effect is not inclusive.Compared with rural households with high income,high human capital,young farmers,and male heads,the benefits of households with low income,low human capital,elderly farmers,and female heads are very limited.The findings confirm that the improvement of digital literacy helps to achieve the income growth of rural households,but also reveal the inequality in the development of rural digital economy.Accordingly,this paper argues that the advancement of China's digital rural strategy in the new development stage should not only focus on the cultivation of farmers'digital literacy,but also accelerate the construction of an inclusive development path of rural digital economy.
Digital LiteracyRural Household IncomeDigital DivideDigital Inequality
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维普
