Berkouwer, Susanna B.; Biscaye, Pierre; Hsu, Eric; Lee, … - 2021
line with economic theory favoring direct cash transfers, in a randomized experiment in Kenya 95% of urban recipients … prefer mobile money over electricity transfers of a similar monetary value. But Kenya is an outlier with high mobile money … adoption: this increases its value and reduces transaction costs of buying electricity credit. By contrast, in Ghana …