School of Public Affairs, Chongqing Technology and Business University, Chongqing, China.
School of Law and Sociology, Chongqing Technology and Business University, Chongqing, China.
PLoS One. 2024 Jul 16;19(7):e0307328. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0307328. eCollection 2024.
To explore whether digital finance can reduce agricultural carbon emissions, promote regional convergence, and foster inclusivity in rural revitalization and shared prosperity, this paper uses the provincial-level index of digital financial inclusion to analyze the impact of digital financial inclusion on the intensity of agricultural carbon emissions and the Degum Gini coefficient (D-Gini coefficient) of regional carbon emission intensity in 30 sample provinces from 2010 to 2020. It examines the mechanism of the impact of digital financial inclusion on both variables to understand the underlying factors better. The main conclusions are as follows: (1) Digital financial inclusion significantly reduces the intensity of agricultural carbon emissions and narrows the gap in carbon emission intensity between regions. (2) The unconditional quantile regression coefficients show that the negative coefficients of the digital financial inclusion index and the three-dimensional indices decrease with increasing quantiles. However, the significant effects vary significantly at different quantiles. (3) Technological progress and the government's ability to allocate financial resources play a significant mediating role, and the income gap between urban and rural areas can be further narrowed, as well as the carbon emission intensity gap between provinces. The empirical results are robust and proven by replacing the econometric analysis method, changing the core variables, and other methods.
为了探讨数字金融是否能够减少农业碳排放，促进区域收敛，并在农村振兴和共同繁荣中促进包容性，本文利用省级数字金融包容指数，分析了数字金融包容对 2010 年至 2020 年 30 个样本省份农业碳排放强度和区域碳排放强度 Degum Gini 系数（D-Gini 系数）的影响。检验了数字金融包容对这两个变量的影响机制，以更好地了解其内在因素。主要结论如下：（1）数字金融包容显著降低了农业碳排放强度，并缩小了区域间碳排放强度的差距。（2）无条件分位数回归系数表明，数字金融包容指数和三维指数的负系数随着分位数的增加而减小。然而，在不同的分位数下，显著效应差异显著。（3）技术进步和政府配置金融资源的能力发挥了显著的中介作用，可以进一步缩小城乡收入差距以及省份间的碳排放强度差距。实证结果是稳健的，并通过替换计量分析方法、改变核心变量和其他方法得到了验证。
