Mobile Phones and Economic Development in Rural Peru
We estimate the effects of mobile phone coverage on different measures of economic development. We exploit the timing of mobile coverage at the village level merging it with a village-level panel dataset for rural Peru. The main findings suggest that mobile phone expansion has increased household re...
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okr-10986-133692021-04-23T14:03:08Z Mobile Phones and Economic Development in Rural Peru Beuermann, Diether W. McKelvey, Christopher Vakis, Renos mobile coverage household wellbeing poverty We estimate the effects of mobile phone coverage on different measures of economic development. We exploit the timing of mobile coverage at the village level merging it with a village-level panel dataset for rural Peru. The main findings suggest that mobile phone expansion has increased household real consumption by 11 per cent, reduced poverty incidence by 8 percentage points and decreased extreme poverty by 5.4 percentage points. Moreover, those benefits appear to be shared by all covered households regardless of mobile ownership. 2013-05-10T19:13:43Z 2013-05-10T19:13:43Z 2012-11-02 Journal Article Journal of Development Studies 0022-0388 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13369 en_US Journal of Development Studies;48(11) CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/ World Bank Taylor and Francis Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research Peru |
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We estimate the effects of mobile phone coverage on different measures of economic development. We exploit the timing of mobile coverage at the village level merging it with a village-level panel dataset for rural Peru. The main findings suggest that mobile phone expansion has increased household real consumption by 11 per cent, reduced poverty incidence by 8 percentage points and decreased extreme poverty by 5.4 percentage points. Moreover, those benefits appear to be shared by all covered households regardless of mobile ownership. |
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Beuermann, Diether W. McKelvey, Christopher Vakis, Renos |
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Beuermann, Diether W. McKelvey, Christopher Vakis, Renos |
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Mobile Phones and Economic Development in Rural Peru |
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Mobile Phones and Economic Development in Rural Peru |
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Mobile Phones and Economic Development in Rural Peru |
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Mobile Phones and Economic Development in Rural Peru |
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Mobile Phones and Economic Development in Rural Peru |
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mobile phones and economic development in rural peru |
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Taylor and Francis |
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