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September 12, 2025China & World Economy

The Digital Economy and Rural Household Consumption: A Quasi‐natural Experiment Based on the National Rural E‐commerce Comprehensive Demonstration Project

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ZWZhou WuZYZhichao YinYYYu Yan

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Quasi-natural experiment shows increased rural household consumption via e-commerce, suggesting improved market access and reduced costs.

Key Points

  • The National Rural E-commerce Comprehensive Demonstration Project increased rural household consumption by RMB 321.
  • Analysis found that the e-commerce project enhanced income from agricultural sales and online shopping, easing liquidity constraints.
  • Staggered difference-in-differences model used household finance survey data from 2013 to 2023 to evaluate the project's effects.
  • Results highlight the digital economy's greater impact on less educated households, those without loans, and older individuals.

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Wu et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68d44a1d31b076d99fa52bfchttps://doi.org/10.1111/cwe.12608
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