Smartphone use and income growth in rural China: empirical results and policy implications

Ma, Wanglin; Grafton, R. Quentin; Renwick, Alan

doi:10.1007/s10660-018-9323-x

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“…Specifically, household income is defined as the total annual income of each household in 2016, including farm income, off‐farm income, and other income sources (e.g., rents, remittance, and subsidies), which is measured in 1,000 Yuan/capita. This definition is consistent with that of Ma, Grafton, & Renwick, (). Household expenditure is defined as the total annual expenditure on various household activities such as food, agricultural production, health, education, and durable goods in 2016, which is also measured in 1,000 Yuan/capita.…”

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“…In our study, Internet use is defined as a dummy variable that equals 1 if a household has access to broadband Internet in 2016, and 0 otherwise. Unlike previous studies that consider Internet use through smartphones or mobile phones (Ma, Grafton, & Renwick, ; Fu & Akter, ; Hübler & Hartje, ; Tadesse & Bahiigwa, ), we focus on broadband Internet use because broadband Internet access obviously provides more advantages such as facilitating the use of other devices such as computers, televisions, and tablets. In addition, the wireless network supported by the broadband Internet enables all household members to reap the benefits of the Internet at the same time.…”

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“…Information and communication technologies (ICTs) facilitate information transfer, and, therefore, they are regarded important production factors for productivity gains and economic growth. Research on rural areas has shown that the adoption of ICTs, in particular, mobile phones and computers, has significant impacts on transaction costs and market participation (Tadesse & Bahiigwa, ; Zanello, ), agricultural technologies (Fu & Akter, ), farm efficiency and productivity (Lio & Liu, ; Ogutu, Okello, & Otieno, ), and rural economic development (Hübler & Hartje, ; Ma, Grafton, & Renwick, ; Munyegera & Matsumoto, ).…”

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The expansion of the Internet in developing countries has important implications for the economic development of rural areas. Although many studies have investigated various benefits of Internet use, little attention has been paid to find the relationship between Internet use and the economic well-being of rural households. This paper, therefore, investigates the effects of Internet use on household income and expenditure, using a sample of rural households from China. Both endogenous treatment regression (ETR) and unconditional quantile regression (UQR) techniques are used to identify the homogenous and heterogeneous effects of Internet use, respectively. The ETR results show that Internet use increases household income and expenditure significantly. However, the UQR results reveal that Internet use has a larger impact at the upper distributions of household income and expenditure.

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“…The impact of farm size on the Internet use does not reach consensus. For example, Ma et al (2018b) showed that farm size has a positive and significant impact on Internet use via smartphones, while Leng et al (2020) found that farm size negatively affects Internet use via ICTs such as computers and smartphones. Thus, we do not assign any a priori sign expectation for the farm size variable in our analysis.…”

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Internet Use, Sustainable Agricultural Practices and Rural Incomes: Evidence from China

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Relatively little is known about the association between Internet use and environmentally-friendly agricultural innovation adoption. To fill this void, this study examines the impact of Internet use on the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices (SAPs) and their heterogeneous effects on farm income and household income. Unlike previous studies that analyse the dichotomous decision of agricultural innovation adoption, this study captures the number of SAPs adopted. We apply both endogenous-treatment Poisson regression model and unconditional quantile regression model to analyse unique farm-level data collected from China. The empirical results show that Internet use exerts a positive and statistically significant impact on the number of SAPs adopted, and the joint effects of Internet use and SAP adoption on farm income and household income are heterogeneous. In particular, we show that Internet use has a larger impact at the upper tail of household income but it has no significant impact on farm income. SAP adoption is negatively associated with farm income and household income across the selected quantiles.

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Smartphone use and income growth in rural China: empirical results and policy implications

Cited by 116 publications

References 30 publications

Impact of Internet use on economic well‐being of rural households: Evidence from China

Impact of Internet use on economic well‐being of rural households: Evidence from China

Internet Use, Sustainable Agricultural Practices and Rural Incomes: Evidence from China

Perspective of Financial Literacy on Agribusiness Performance in Uganda; A Close Look at Farmers’ Attitude and Social Media Platforms

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