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The impact of internet use on entrepreneurial behavior and income: Evidence from Chinese rural households

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  • Lyubing, Feng
  • Lijun, Zang
  • Xianguo, Yao

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China's low-income population is primarily mad up of farmers. Elevating their earnings is the key to realizing common prosperity. Based on the quasi-natural experiment of the "Broadband China" strategy, we applied the staggered double difference method to explore the impact of Internet use on the income of Chinese rural households. The findings indicate that Internet use can enhance the business income of rural households, whereas it does not have such significantly positive effects on other income. After mitigating endogeneity issues, the basic pattern of the effects remains. The heterogeneity analysis reveals that females and individuals with higher levels of education benefit more from the "Broadband China" policy. The mechanism results show that Income boosting effect may arise from improving rural entrepreneurship behavior.

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  • Lyubing, Feng & Lijun, Zang & Xianguo, Yao, 2024. "The impact of internet use on entrepreneurial behavior and income: Evidence from Chinese rural households," Journal of Asian Economics, Elsevier, vol. 93(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:asieco:v:93:y:2024:i:c:s1049007824000472
    DOI: 10.1016/j.asieco.2024.101752
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    Keywords

    Internet use; Rural household entrepreneurship; Rural residents' household income; Entrepreneurial skills improvement;
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    JEL classification:

    • L26 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Entrepreneurship
    • L86 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Information and Internet Services; Computer Software
    • L38 - Industrial Organization - - Nonprofit Organizations and Public Enterprise - - - Public Policy
    • O18 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
    • P25 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist and Transition Economies - - - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics

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