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Does Digital Inclusive Finance Promote Commercial Insurance Participation? -- An Empirical Study Based on the Digital Inclusive Finance Index and China Family Panel Studies Data

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posted on 2021-12-16, 17:26 authored by Zaikun HouZaikun Hou, Wenjie Li, Wangchen Lu, Yue Gao

This paper matches the "Peking University Digital Inclusive Finance Index" published by Peking University Digital Finance Research Center with the 2018 China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) database, and uses Probit and Logit models to empirically investigate the impact of digital inclusive finance on impact of household commercial insurance participation. The findings show that, first, the development of digital inclusive finance significantly increases commercial insurance participation, and this effect remains significant after adding control variables or changing models; second, the impact of digital inclusive finance on commercial insurance participation shows structural differences by urban-rural, regional, and risk preferences. At the urban-rural level, the impact of digital inclusive finance on commercial insurance participation is significantly higher in rural than in urban areas; at the regional level, the impact of digital inclusive finance is greater in western regions than in eastern and central regions; at the risk preference level, the impact of digital inclusive finance on commercial insurance participation is higher in risk-averse groups than in risk-averse groups. Based on the above findings, this paper proposes to accelerate the development of digital inclusive finance, especially focusing on the construction of digital inclusive finance in less developed regions; improve the financial market system, strengthen the supervision of insurance products; and increase the popularization of financial knowledge.

Funding

Key Project of National Social Science Foundation of China: Research on the Adjustment of Asia-Pacific Regional Value Chain and the Optimization and Enhancement of China's Manufacturing Value Chain under the Framework of RCEP (21AJY008);

General Project of National Social Science Foundation of China: Research on the Mechanism of Export Product Quality Enhancement of Heterogeneous Enterprises under the Division of Labor System of Global Value Chain (18BJL100);

Key Project of Shandong Province Social Science Planning Research "Research on Solidification and Enhancement of High-end Value Chain of Manufacturing Industry in Shandong Province in the Context of Global Value Chain Reconstruction" (21BJJ02)

Key Project of Shandong Province Arts Science, Project No. L2021Q07080194

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Declaration of conflicts of interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

Corresponding author email

792787665@qq.com

Lead author country

  • China

Lead author job role

  • Higher Education Lecturer

Lead author institution

Dongfang College, Shandong University of Finance and Economics

Human Participants

  • Yes

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