期刊
JOURNAL OF INNOVATION & KNOWLEDGE
卷 7, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER ESPANA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jik.2022.100164
关键词
Fintech; Poverty alleviation; Quantile regression; Support vector regression
资金
- Philosophy and Social Sciences Leading Talent Training Project of Zhejiang Province [21YJRC07-1YB]
This paper examines the effects of fintech on poverty alleviation in different provinces of China and finds that fintech effectively reduces poverty in every province, with stronger effects observed in low-income provinces.
Despite the booming development of financial technology (fintech) in China, little academic literature has explored the effects of fintech on poverty. This paper explores the effects of fintech on poverty alleviation in the provinces of China. The sample includes data for 31 provinces for the period of 2011 to 2020. To reflect the technological innovation of finance, we first use web crawler technology and word frequency analysis to collect variables, and then construct a fintech index for each province. Due to the heterogeneity in poverty among various provincial regions, we further propose a novel sparse support vector quantile regression to examine the effectiveness of fintech on poverty reduction within individual Chinese provinces. Quantile estimators of the proposed method are used as empirical location measures for poverty. The empirical results show that although the development of fintech index is uneven among provincial regions, fintech effectively reduces poverty in every province. Moreover, the positive effects of fintech on poverty alleviation are much stronger in low-income provinces than in high-income provinces. Therefore, policy-makers and practitioners should build more digital financial technology systems, especially in Chinese low-income provinces.(c) 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Espana, S.L.U. on behalf of Journal of Innovation & Knowledge. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)
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