新时代背景下互联网发展与城乡居民消费差距

Internet Development and Consumption Gap between Urban and Rural Residents in the New Era of China

研究目标:互联网发展对中国城乡居民消费差距的作用效果及机理。研究方法:构建城乡二元经济理论模型,使用省级面板数据和CGSS2015,依靠联立方程模型和OLS对理论模型推导结论进行检验。研究发现:互联网普及显著降低了城乡居民消费差距,并且是通过城乡居民生存型消费、享受型消费差距和发展型消费差距多维路径实现的。就时间趋势看,互联网普及对城乡居民消费差距的改善效应有所下降,存在边际递减现象。微观实证分析发现,互联网降低城乡居民消费差距的作用机理是“收入效应”和“消费净效应”,二者分别从“消费的起”和“消费的到”角度促进农村居民消费。研究创新:本文从理论和实证两个角度考察了互联网对城乡消费差距的作用效果及机理。研究价值:对制定“数字中国”战略和缓解中国当下社会主要矛盾具有重要的参考意义。

Research Objectives:To analyze the effect and mechanism of internet on consumption gap between urban and rural residents in China.Research Methods:Constructing the theoretical model of urban-rural dual economic structure,using provincial panel data and CGSS2015,relying on simultaneous equation model and OLS method to test the results of the theoretical model.Research Findings:The internet penetration can significantly reduce the consumption gap between urban and rural residents,which is realized through the multidimensional paths,including subsistence consumption gap,enjoyment consumption gap and development consumption gap between urban and rural residents.In terms of time trend,the improvement effect of internet penetration on consumption gap between urban and rural residents has decreased,and there is a phenomenon of marginal decline.Micro empirical analysis has shown that the mechanism of internet to reduce the consumption gap between urban and rural residents are both“income effect”and“net consumption effect”,which promote the consumption of rural residents from the perspective of“consumptive initiation”and“consumptive arrival”respectively.Research Innovations:This paper examines the effect and mechanism of internet on urban-rural consumption gap from both theoretical and empirical perspectives.Research Value:It has important reference significance for further formulating the development strategy of“digital China”and solving the main social contradictions in China.