Beuermann, Diether W.; McKelvey, Christopher; Vakis, Renos - In: Journal of Development Studies 48 (2012) 11, pp. 1617-1628
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...
