Digital villages and agricultural green total factor productivity: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China
基于全国县级面板数据与准自然实验，实证数字乡村对农业绿色全要素生产率的影响，方法严谨，结论具有政策参考价值。
原文标题: Digital villages and agricultural green total factor productivity。作者: Guo Hui、Wang Xinyi、Xia He、Jiang Wenjie。DOI: 10.3389/fsufs.2026.1831978。本文采用super-efficiency SBM-DDF-GML模型，运用2014—2023年中国县级面板数据测算AGTFP，并以国家数字乡村试点为准自然实验，运用DID方法评估数字乡村发展对AGTFP的影响、机制与空间溢出效应。研究发现：①数字乡村发展显著提升AGTFP，效应主要源于绿色技术进步而非绿色技术效率改善；②机制上通过优化劳动力配置、激发农业创业活力、扩大消费需求；③异质性上，距省会近、地形起伏度高、路网密度低的地区政策效应更显著；④空间效应以虹吸为主，但绿色技术进步随时间推移呈现溢出迹象。
Digital villages and agricultural green total factor productivity
Guo, HuiWang, Xinyi; Xia, He; Jiang, Wenjie
Angol nyelvű Szakcikk (Folyóiratcikk) Tudományos
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Enhancing agricultural green total factor productivity (AGTFP) is essential for advancing high-quality agricultural development. This study employs a super-efficiency SBM-DDF-GML model to calculate AGTFP using county-level panel data from China (2014-2023). Leveraging national digital village pilot (NDVP) programs as a quasi-natural experiment, it further applies a Difference-in-Differences (DID) approach to evaluate the impact, underlying mechanisms, and spatial spillover effects of digital village development on AGTFP. Results indicate that digital village initiatives significantly boost AGTFP. The results remain robust across multiple robustness checks and endogeneity tests, with effects primarily driven by green technological progress rather than green technological efficiency improvements. Mechanism analysis indicates that digital village development enhances AGTFP by promoting optimal labor allocation, stimulating agribusiness entrepreneurship, and expanding consumption. Heterogeneity analysis reveals that the policy effect is more pronounced in areas near provincial capitals, with high terrain undulation, and low road network density. The spatial effect during the sample period is dominated by siphoning, with only green technological progress exhibiting signs of spillover over time. This study provides new empirical evidence on how digital village development drives agricultural green transformation and offers policy implications for optimizing policy design and promoting coordinated regional development.