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Mobile Phones and Economic Development in Rural Peru

Diether W. BeuermannChristopher McKelveyRenos Vakis

出版	Taylor & Francis, 2012
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=tG7HwQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

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.