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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Main Authors:	Luo, Xubei, Wang, Yue, Zhang, Xiaobo
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2019
Subjects:	E-COMMERCE TRANSACTION COST SPATIAL INEQUALITY HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/146951554905409975/E-Commerce-Development-and-Household-Consumption-Growth-in-China http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31539

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spelling	okr-10986-315392022-09-20T00:14:15Z E-Commerce Development and Household Consumption Growth in China Luo, Xubei Wang, Yue Zhang, Xiaobo E-COMMERCE TRANSACTION COST SPATIAL INEQUALITY HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION 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. 2019-04-11T21:04:26Z 2019-04-11T21:04:26Z 2019-04 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/146951554905409975/E-Commerce-Development-and-Household-Consumption-Growth-in-China http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31539 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8810 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper East Asia and Pacific China
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description	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.
format	Working Paper
author	Luo, Xubei Wang, Yue Zhang, Xiaobo
author_facet	Luo, Xubei Wang, Yue Zhang, Xiaobo
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title	E-Commerce Development and Household Consumption Growth in China
title_short	E-Commerce Development and Household Consumption Growth in China
title_full	E-Commerce Development and Household Consumption Growth in China
title_fullStr	E-Commerce Development and Household Consumption Growth in China
title_full_unstemmed	E-Commerce Development and Household Consumption Growth in China
title_sort	e-commerce development and household consumption growth in china
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2019
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/146951554905409975/E-Commerce-Development-and-Household-Consumption-Growth-in-China http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31539
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E-Commerce Development and Household Consumption Growth in China

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