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Mobile Phones and Economic Development in Rural 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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- Authors
- Beuermann, D. W., McKelvey, C., & Vakis, R.
- Venue
- Journal of Development Studies
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2012-11
- Volume
- 48
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 1617-1628
- ISSN
- 0022-0388 (ISSN-L)
- 1743-9140
- OpenAlex
- W2104986422
- Cited by
- 166
- References
- 3
- FWCI
- 30.41
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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