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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2019/04/10
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Policy Research Working Paper
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WPS8810
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1
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1
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2019/04/10
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Disclosed
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Doc Name
E-Commerce Development and Household Consumption Growth in China
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Keywords
online purchase; e-commerce development; household consumption; Poverty and Equity; household expenditure; standard deviation; consumption per capita; household consumption per capita; urban household; average age; per capita consumption growth; consumption of durable good; household per capita income; online sale; consumption do; law of one price; central regions; rural area; Durable goods; cost of living; online retail; personal service; dependency ratio; expenditure per capita; consumption of good; household food consumption
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Luo,Xubei Wang,Yue-000541442 Zhang,Xiaobo
E-Commerce Development and Household Consumption Growth in China (English). Policy Research working paper,no. WPS 8810 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/146951554905409975/E-Commerce-Development-and-Household-Consumption-Growth-in-China