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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Beuermann, Diether W., McKelvey, Christopher, Vakis, Renos
Language:en_US
Published: Taylor and Francis 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13369