We estimate the effect of mobile money adoption on consumption smoothing, poverty and human capital investments in … Tanzania. We exploit the rapid expansion of the mobile money agent network between 2010 and 2012 and combine this with … intergenerational transmission of poverty …

avoid vulnerability. Using the panel data survey for the Kagera region of Tanzania, we select children who were 7 to 15 …

This paper examines the importance of relative deprivation in Tanzania, a poor African country, using three waves of … literature, we find strong evidence of relative deprivation in financial satisfaction of all individuals in Tanzania, and …

What are the impacts of expanding mobile broadband coverage on poverty, household consumption and labor market outcomes … on the rollout of mobile broadband coverage in Tanzania. The results reveal that being covered by 3G networks has a large … positive effect on total household consumption and poverty reduction, driven by positive impacts on labor market outcomes …

randomized survey experiment in Tanzania focusing on two survey aspects: different questionnaire design to classify children work …

survey experiment in Tanzania that varied two key dimensions: the level of detail of the questions and the type of respondent …

's working hours. Analysis using Living Standards Measurement Survey (LSMS) data on the Kagera region in Tanzania lend support to …

This paper estimates the impacts of mobile broadband coverage on household consumption and poverty in Nigeria, the … rate. Mobile broadband coverage also reduces the proportion of households below the poverty line, driven by higher food and …

Should public investment be targeted to big cities or to small towns, if the objective is to minimize national poverty … poverty gradient from rural to town to city will exist as an equilibrium phenomenon. We then address the policy question and … show how the answer depends on the migration response, where the poverty line lies relative to incomes in the three …

microdata from Tanzania. We use idiosyncratic variation in rainfall to proxy for shocks on household income of rural households …