We study the tendency to connect to the Internet, and the online and offline shopping behavior of connected persons, to draw inferences about whether the Internet is a substitute or a complement for c
This data is the city-level panel data on the pilot policy of urban employment and information consumption, covering 285 prefecture-level cities in China from 2003 to 2019. It is mainly compiled by th
Cities are often described as engines of economic growth. We assess this statement quantitatively. We focus on two mechanisms: a static agglomeration effect that makes production in bigger cities more
