Digital Infrastructure Construction and Urban-Rural Income Gap: A Quasi-Natural Experiment Based on the “Broadband China” Strategy
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Huan Wang
Available Online 14 May 2025.
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- 10.2991/978-94-6463-710-6_22How to use a DOI?
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- digital infrastructure; “broadband China” policy; urban-rural income gap
- Abstract
Based on the panel data of 283 cities in China from 2010 to 2022, this paper explores the impact of digital infrastructure construction (GT) on the urban-rural income gap (Theil) by using the multi-stage different-in-differences model (DID). The empirical results show that digital infrastructure construction will widen the urban-rural income Inequality, and the results are still valid after a series of robustness tests. Further research shows that the level of human capital plays a moderating effect on the impact of digital infrastructure on urban-rural income gap.
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TY - CONF AU - Huan Wang PY - 2025 DA - 2025/05/14 TI - Digital Infrastructure Construction and Urban-Rural Income Gap: A Quasi-Natural Experiment Based on the “Broadband China” Strategy BT - Proceedings of the 2025 4th International Conference on Big Data Economy and Digital Management (BDEDM 2025) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 186 EP - 191 SN - 1951-6851 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-710-6_22 DO - 10.2991/978-94-6463-710-6_22 ID - Wang2025 ER -