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. 2021 Oct 15;16(10):e0258162.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0258162. eCollection 2021.

Rural E-commerce development and farmers' digital credit behavior: Evidence from China family panel studies

Gao Yu  1 , Hu Xiang  2
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Rural E-commerce development and farmers' digital credit behavior: Evidence from China family panel studies

Gao Yu et al. PLoS One. .

Abstract

This paper examines the impact of rural e-commerce development on rural households' digital credit behavior at the micro-level by using a multivariate Probit model and propensity score matching method with rural residents in the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) database. Specifically, we examine the complementary or substitution relationship between digital credit and traditional bank credit and the impact of participation in e-commerce on the scale of digital credit of rural households. The empirical results show that there is a substitution relationship between digital credit and traditional bank credit. Participation in e-commerce has a positive impact on the scale of digital credit and the full scale of credit obtained by farmers, with an increase of $0.922 million and $37.49 million in the scale of digital credit and real credit received by farmers who participate in e-commerce, respectively, compared with those who do not participate in e-commerce. Further tests revealed that the difference in capital endowment was an essential reason for the disparity in the size of digital credit received among e-commerce farmers.

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The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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