Yang, J. orcid.org/0000-0002-4509-1263, Wu, Y. and Huang, B. (2023) Digital finance and financial literacy: evidence from Chinese households. Journal of Banking and Finance, 156. 107005. ISSN 0378-4266
Abstract
We measure financial literacy and study its impact on household use of digital finance using the 2015 and 2017 China Household Finance Survey. We find that financial literacy significantly boosts the use of digital finance, including mobile payments, online borrowing, and online financial products. This effect is more pronounced for online borrowing and online financial products than for mobile payments. This result suggests that the impact of financial literacy increases with the complexity of digital finance. Furthermore, financial literacy plays a more important role in promoting the use of digital financial services among disadvantaged groups, such as families with low income and wealth, the elderly, and residents in rural areas, compared with their counterparts.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/bync/4.0/). |
Keywords: | Financial literacy; Digital finance; Household finance; CHFS; China |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Management School (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 21 Sep 2023 09:01 |
Last Modified: | 17 Oct 2023 11:54 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2023.107005 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:203271 |