数字政府、政务信息惠民与城市居民家庭消费

Digital Government,National Pilot Policy of Information Benefiting the People and Household Consumption

数字政府建设对激发居民家庭消费和推进扩大内需战略具有重要意义。本文借助“信息惠民试点”政策,结合双重差分法考察了数字政府建设对城市居民家庭消费的影响效应。研究发现,信息惠民政策显著提升了城市居民家庭消费水平,这一结论在平行趋势检验与各种稳健性检验下依然显著成立。机制分析发现,信息惠民政策有利于规范制度环境、促进城市居民家庭借贷和提升居民对就业环境改善的主观感知,进而增强城市居民家庭的消费信心和促进实际消费行为。此外,异质性分析显示该政策对有住房产权家庭的总消费提升效应更大,对无孩家庭的人均消费提升效应更强。进一步分析发现,数字政府建设对城市居民家庭消费的促进作用比农村家庭更大。本文研究表明,深入推动数字政府建设对逐步扩大内需、促进国内家庭消费潜力、释放和助力双循环发展新格局构建具有重要意义。

Giving play to the role of the digital government and building a proactive government to release potential consumer demand in the market are related to the construction of the new development paradigm featuring dual circulation,in which domestic and overseas markets reinforce each other,with the domestic market as the mainstay.With the help of national pilot policy of information benefiting the people,this paper investigates the impact of the government’s digitization policy on urban household consumption by using the method of difference-difference.It is found that the government’s digital policy has significantly increased urban household consumption,and this conclusion remains significantly valid under parallel trend tests and various robustness tests.In addition,heterogeneity analysis showed that the policy significantly increased the consumption of households with home ownership,older people,younger heads of households,and heads of households with low educational qualifications.Mechanism analysis found that the information benefit policy is conducive to the improvement of social system environment,financing environment and employment environment,and then promote the consumption confidence and actual consumption behavior of urban households.This study shows that in-depth promotion of government digitization has important policy implications for gradually expanding domestic demand,promoting the release of domestic household consumption potential,and helping the construction of domestic circular pattern.