Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/87400 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. 11-152/4
Publisher: 
Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam and Rotterdam
Abstract: 
We examine the impact of mobile telephone use on economic development of individual households. Unique cross-sectional data were collected in personal interviews with heads of households (N=196) in Uganda. Economic development is measured at the household level by the Progress out of Poverty Index. We find strong support that mobile phone use positively impacts economic development.
Subjects: 
Economic development
Progress out of poverty index
mobile telephone
mobile banking
mobile search
JEL: 
I3
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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