E-Commerce Development and Household Consumption Growth in China
China has quickly become the largest e-commerce market in the world. By matching a nationally representative China Family Panel Studies survey with county-level e-commerce information obtained from Alibaba, this paper examines how e-commerce develo...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2019
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/146951554905409975/E-Commerce-Development-and-Household-Consumption-Growth-in-China http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31539 |
| Summary: | China has quickly become the largest
e-commerce market in the world. By matching a nationally
representative China Family Panel Studies survey with
county-level e-commerce information obtained from Alibaba,
this paper examines how e-commerce development has shaped
household consumption growth in China. The paper presents
three major findings. First, e-commerce development is
associated with higher consumption growth. Second, the
relationship is stronger for the rural sample, inland
regions, and poor households, suggesting that e-commerce
development helps reduce spatial inequality in consumption.
Third, the consumption of durable goods and in-style goods
has grown faster than the consumption of local services. |
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