Mobile Payment and Informal Business: Evidence from China's Household Panel Data

This paper uses household panel data to explore the impact of mobile payments on China's household business activity. Using a difference‐in‐difference fixed effect specification, I find that mobile payment users are more likely to operate small‐scale and self‐employed informal businesses. The i...

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Published in:	China & world economy Vol. 28; no. 3; pp. 90 - 115
Main Author:	Wang, Xue
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Beijing 中国社会科学院世界经济与政治研究所 01.05.2020 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
Subjects:	Agribusiness Agricultural development Business Companies Employment entrepreneurial activity Families & family life financial inclusion Households Housework Longitudinal studies Low income groups Mobile commerce mobile payment Owners Panel data Payments Relatives small and micro‐business Specification China financial inclusion mobile payment entrepreneurial activity small and micro-business
ISSN:	1671-2234, 1749-124X
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