Digitalization’s Effects on Income Growth and Distribution-Evidence from the CHDES Database

作     者：Huang Yanghua Zhang Jiajia Cai Yuhan Zhang Jinshuo 

作者机构：School of Applied EconomicsRenmin University of ChinaBeijingChina 

出 版 物：《China Economist》 (中国经济学人（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2024年第19卷第4期

页      面：37-56页

学科分类：120301[管理学-农业经济管理] 12[管理学] 1203[管理学-农林经济管理] 

基　　金：supported by the Scientific Research Fund of Renmin University of China(Special Funding Support of the Basic Scientific Research Fund for Central Universities)“Digital Economy Advancing High-Quality Development:Practice and Theoretical Perspectives”(Grant No.22XNA040) Major Task Project of the Theoretical and Social Science Research of the Ministry of Education“Study on the Industrial Subsidies and Industrial Policies of Major World Economies”(Grant No.22J2D013) 

主　　题：Digital economy level of digitalization digital empowerment income function 

摘      要：Using the CHDES database,we created the CIDI to comprehensively quantify digital adoption at the individual level and examine digitalization’s impact on individual *** analysis results indicate that increasing the CIDI by one standard deviation(0.13)improves individual income by 5.93 percentage points,which remains true after a series of endogeneity and robustness *** the heterogeneity analysis,we discovered that when digital adoption grows,residents in the countryside and county seats can earn more money through internet business operations and other *** helps to decrease the urban-rural income divide,but it has also pushed those digitally skilled into high-paying sectors,widening the income gaps between *** the mechanism analysis,we developed an income function that takes into account the individual level of digitalization to show that digitalization can boost income by increasing working hours or labor participation and adjusting the portfolio of individual material,human,and social *** this paper,we have expanded the system for measuring the individual levels of digitalization by offering basic data,research methodology,and policy suggestions for the digital economy’s inclusive development.