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The Impact of Mobile Finance Use on Livelihoods of Farmers in Rural China

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  • Jing Wang
  • Xiaohua Yu
  • Kaiyu Lyu
  • Jan-Henning Feil

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Mobile finance plays an important role in supporting productive activities and improving the basic livelihoods of rural households. Using three-round panel data and employing control function approach to address the self-selection bias issue, this study shows that mobile finance use significantly increases farmers’ livelihoods, measured by farm income and per capita consumption in China, with a larger marginal effect for smallholders and credit-constrained farmers. We further divide mobile finance into two types and reveal that the mobile payment use plays a larger role in farm income, while the mobile banking use has a larger impact on household consumption.

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  • Jing Wang & Xiaohua Yu & Kaiyu Lyu & Jan-Henning Feil, 2022. "The Impact of Mobile Finance Use on Livelihoods of Farmers in Rural China," Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 58(10), pages 2867-2879, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:mes:emfitr:v:58:y:2022:i:10:p:2867-2879
    DOI: 10.1080/1540496X.2021.2013195
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