The "Road" To Entrepreneurship: The Impact Of The Improvement Of Rural Infrastructure On Entrepreneurial Behavior

"To get rich,build roads first." Due to poor transportation infrastructure,rural markets tend to be spatially dispersed.Policymakers have tried to solve this problem by pouring money into providing roads.Since the reform and opening up,the non-agricultural market in rural areas has expanded rapidly.However,the development of rural economy needs not only the new non-agricultural sector,but also the strong and sustainable entrepreneurial spirit.It is necessary to carry out profound restructuring by combining capital and new ideas through innovation and entrepreneurship.The importance of entrepreneurship to technological innovation,job creation and economic development is self-evident,we need to support and encourage farmers to find jobs or start their own businesses,so as to boost employment through entrepreneurship and raise the level of entrepreneurship in rural areas.At present,the existing literature found infrastructure in promoting employment and reduce the evidence of market access,but there are few literatures to further explore the improvement of the infrastructure of entrepreneurial behavior,the influence of the self-employed professional development,therefore,on the basis of existing research,this paper explores the improvement of the rural roads influence on entrepreneurial farmers choose,and discusses a special kind of "road"-"information highway",namely the new information infrastructure(broadband)influence on entrepreneurship,It can provide policy suggestions for the government to promote entrepreneurship and optimize the entrepreneurial environment from the perspective of rural infrastructure investment.In addition,this paper also attempts to explore the interaction between household initial resource endowment(wealth level)and the improvement of infrastructure on household entrepreneurship.In theory,transportation infrastructure affects entrepreneurship mainly through "entrepreneurial knowledge premium" and "local market development hypothesis",while information infrastructure affects entrepreneurship mainly through "information effect" and "technology effect".In the following empirical study,this paper takes advantage of the Chinese family is tracking database(CFPS)in villages roads connecting time,and Chinese families villages in large database(CFD)broadband time data,using double difference(DID)model to identify the influence of the rural infrastructure construction of farmer entrepreneurship,the results found that significant positive interaction of double difference coefficient,shows that the construction of infrastructure,to a certain extent,promote the farmer entrepreneurship.In addition,the results show that for poor families,the opening of rural roads has a greater impact on family entrepreneurship,while the rural broadband construction has a higher incentive on family entrepreneurship with higher wealth level.Finally,this paper also considers the possible interference caused by other policies in the same period,such as Huinong Financial Service for Villages...