Table 8.
Determinants of mobile Internet use and multidimensional poverty
| Variables | Selection Eq. (1) | The number of deprived dimensions | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Users (2) | Non-users (3) | ||
| Age | 0.067 (0.060) | − 0.016 (0.043) | − 0.170 (0.095)* |
| Age squared | − 0.001 (0.001)** | 0.000 (0.000) | 0.001 (0.001)** |
| Gender | 0.156 (0.141) | − 0.057 (0.104) | − 0.209 (0.154) |
| Education | 0.115 (0.022)*** | − 0.031 (0.018)* | − 0.022 (0.026) |
| Risk aversion | − 0.230 (0.202) | − 0.256 (0.123)** | − 0.116 (0.268) |
| Household size | 0.036 (0.038) | − 0.087 (0.028)*** | − 0.118 (0.037)*** |
| Access to credit | − 0.090 (0.204) | -0.312 (0.163)* | − 0.399 (0.245) |
| Distance to market | 0.035 (0.019)* | 0.042 (0.009)*** | 0.038 (0.031) |
| Cooperative membership | − 0.019 (0.160) | − 0.025 (0.100) | 0.050 (0.161) |
| Henan | 0.989 (0.202)*** | 0.253 (0.166) | 0.489 (0.468) |
| Fujian | 0.722 (0.157)*** | 0.359 (0.172)** | 0.699 (0.202)*** |
| Home delivery service | 0.268 (0.151)* | ||
| Friend’s adoption of online shopping | 0.528 (0.127)*** | ||
| Inverse Mill’s ratio | − 0.048 (0.307) | − 0.235 (0.412) | |
| Constant | − 1.245 (1.691) | 2.035 (1.157)* | 6.554 (3.200)** |
| Log pseudolikelihood | − 261.616 | ||
| Wald χ2(13) | 306.11 | ||
| Pseudo R2 | 0.497 | ||
| Observations | 820 | 549 | 271 |
The reference region is Sichuan. Standard errors are in parentheses, * p < 0.1, ** p < 0.05, *** p < 0.01