幸福
弱势群体
中国
主观幸福感
数字鸿沟
面板数据
人口经济学
自然实验
电子商务
福利
农村地区
经济
经济增长
业务
公共经济学
心理学
政治学
社会心理学
信息和通信技术
计量经济学
统计
市场经济
数学
法学
作者
Binhui Wei,Chunkai Zhao,Mingzhong Luo
标识
DOI:10.1016/j.chieco.2024.102247
摘要
Employing a quasi-natural experiment of the National Rural E-commerce Comprehensive Demonstration County (NRECDC) policy, our research aimed to explore the causal effect of e-commerce development and residents' subjective well-being (SWB) in rural China. By adopting the data of China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) from 2014 to 2020 and using a staggered difference-in-differences (DID) method, we found that rural e-commerce development resulted in an average increase of 2.40% in happiness scores. This positive effect can be explained by absolute material welfare enhancement, relative disparity reduction, and social capital accumulation. Further evidence suggests that e-commerce users are more likely to benefit from the NRECDC policy and that the synergistic effect of digital finance and e-commerce contributes to rural residents' SWB. However, we revealed that the potential digital divide effect in e-commerce development, due to technological barriers and self-digital exclusion, has not enhanced the SWB of some relatively disadvantaged groups in rural China. Our findings enrich the research field of digital well-being and shed light on the potential digital divide effects of digital tools such as e-commerce in rural China.
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