Impact of digital village development on farmers’ human settlement environment improvement behaviors
IntroductionAs digital village construction advances, digital technologies are gradually permeating various aspects of rural life, providing a new avenue for improving rural human settlement environment (RHSE).MethodsWe matched the 2020 and 2021 data from the China Land Economic Survey (CLES) with t...
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| description | IntroductionAs digital village construction advances, digital technologies are gradually permeating various aspects of rural life, providing a new avenue for improving rural human settlement environment (RHSE).MethodsWe matched the 2020 and 2021 data from the China Land Economic Survey (CLES) with the County Digital Rural Index (CDRI), exploring how digital village development (DVD) influences farmers’ human settlement environment improvement behaviors (HSEIBs).Results and discussionResearch findings indicate that DVD has significantly increased farmers’ probability of disposing of domestic wastewater scientifically and adopting sanitation toilets, with robustness checks conducted. Further analysis reveals that this positive impact is primarily realized through effects of enriching villages, enriching villagers and social interaction. The analysis of heterogeneity reveals that in households with a higher proportion of seniors, DVD significantly raises the usage of sanitation toilets but does not significantly promote the scientific treatment of domestic wastewater. Additionally, when we subdivide DVD into different dimensions, we find that the digitalization of rural infrastructure, rural economy, rural life and rural governance can effectively facilitate farmers’ HSEIBs, but the digitalization of rural governance has the least impact. Our findings not only enrich the field of digital well-being research but also shed light on the digital divide problem in rural China. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-f18b86effa21474ea793b44bcb7c37212025-01-14T12:03:40ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems2571-581X2025-01-01810.3389/fsufs.2024.15263991526399Impact of digital village development on farmers’ human settlement environment improvement behaviorsGuodong Zhao0Hongwu Sun1School of Law, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, ChinaInstitute of Agricultural Economics and Development, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing, ChinaIntroductionAs digital village construction advances, digital technologies are gradually permeating various aspects of rural life, providing a new avenue for improving rural human settlement environment (RHSE).MethodsWe matched the 2020 and 2021 data from the China Land Economic Survey (CLES) with the County Digital Rural Index (CDRI), exploring how digital village development (DVD) influences farmers’ human settlement environment improvement behaviors (HSEIBs).Results and discussionResearch findings indicate that DVD has significantly increased farmers’ probability of disposing of domestic wastewater scientifically and adopting sanitation toilets, with robustness checks conducted. Further analysis reveals that this positive impact is primarily realized through effects of enriching villages, enriching villagers and social interaction. The analysis of heterogeneity reveals that in households with a higher proportion of seniors, DVD significantly raises the usage of sanitation toilets but does not significantly promote the scientific treatment of domestic wastewater. Additionally, when we subdivide DVD into different dimensions, we find that the digitalization of rural infrastructure, rural economy, rural life and rural governance can effectively facilitate farmers’ HSEIBs, but the digitalization of rural governance has the least impact. Our findings not only enrich the field of digital well-being research but also shed light on the digital divide problem in rural China.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2024.1526399/fulldigital village developmentrural human settlement environmenttwo-part tariff systemsocial interactionmultivariate probit models |
| spellingShingle | Guodong Zhao Hongwu Sun Impact of digital village development on farmers’ human settlement environment improvement behaviors Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems digital village development rural human settlement environment two-part tariff system social interaction multivariate probit models |
| title | Impact of digital village development on farmers’ human settlement environment improvement behaviors |
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| title_short | Impact of digital village development on farmers’ human settlement environment improvement behaviors |
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| topic | digital village development rural human settlement environment two-part tariff system social interaction multivariate probit models |
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