Table 8 Empirical results of heterogeneity check.

From: Research on digital infrastructure construction empowering new quality productivity

Variable

Heterogeneity of urban scale

Heterogeneity of urban hierarchy

Heterogeneity of urban regions

Smaller cities

Larger cities

Key cities

Non-key cities

Eastern cities

Midwest cities

DI

0.270***

(0.020)

0.060

(0.067)

0.371***

(0.108)

−0.120***

(0.033)

−0.058

(0.071)

0.397***

(0.029)

FDL

0.001***

(0.000)

0.004***

(0.001)

0.028***

(0.005)

0.001***

(0.000)

0.004***

(0.002)

0.001***

(0.000)

ID

−0.000***

(0.000)

−0.002***

(0.000)

−0.001**

(0.001)

−0.001***

(0.000)

−0.002***

(0.000)

−0.000***

(0.000)

GI

0.032***

(0.003)

0.020

(0.013)

0.240***

(0.071)

0.036***

(0.005)

0.052**

(0.022)

0.029***

(0.004)

Constant

0.027***

(0.001)

0.099***

(0.003)

0.111***

(0.016)

0.050***

(0.001)

0.099***

(0.005)

0.038***

(0.001)

Observations

1380

1380

340

2420

990

1770

  1. DI digital infrastructure, FDL financial development level, ID infrastructure development, GI government intervention. T values are reported in parentheses; *(10%), **(5%), and ***(1%) indicate significance at the corresponding level.