Factor Misallocation

This dataset constitutes the replication package for the study “Does the Rural E-Commerce Demonstration Program Alleviate Agricultural Factor Misallocation? Evidence from 1,007 Counties in China”.

The package contains a county-year panel for 1,007 Chinese counties from 2007 to 2021, along with the corresponding code scripts to reproduce all main empirical results. These include the baseline staggered Difference-in-Differences estimates, event-study diagnostics, robustness checks, mechanism analyses, heterogeneity analyses, and spatial spillover tests.

Key variables provided are:
(i) Treatment indicators for the Rural E-commerce Demonstration Program, including its staggered implementation timing.
(ii) The primary outcome measure(s) for agricultural factor misallocation.
(iii) A set of county-level control variables, including key macroeconomic and demographic covariates.
(iv) Variables measuring the proposed mechanisms, namely entrepreneurship and industrial agglomeration.