Abstract
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. © 2012 Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.
| Original language | Spanish |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1617-1628 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | Journal of Development Studies |
| Volume | 48 |
| State | Published - 1 Nov 2012 |
| Externally published | Yes |
