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Mobile Money and Economic Activity: Evidence from Kenya

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dc.contributor.authorFabregas, Raissa
dc.contributor.authorYokossi, Tite
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-24T23:58:01Z
dc.date.available2024-02-24T23:58:01Z
dc.date.issued2022-05-17
dc.description.abstractThis paper estimates the impact of access to mobile money services on local economic activity. The analysis combines data from the early expansion of the mobile agent network in Kenya with a local-level measure of economic performance proxied by the intensity of nighttime lights. Leveraging the variation in areas that gained access to mobile money services at different times and the high resolution of the data, the paper shows that access to mobile money services increased local economic activity and that these effects increased over time. The positive effects are more pronounced for areas that were initially more affluent, urban, and better connected to infrastructure. These results suggest that mobile money can complement, rather than just substitute for, other alternatives that enable people to connect, trade, and allocate investments within their networks.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099500512112328940/IDU0eab9af6003fac049d008c5505c5d308c67b5
dc.identifier.citationThe World Bank Economic Review
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/41101
dc.identifier.issn0258-6770 (print)
dc.identifier.issn1564-698X (online)
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/41101
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherPublished by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWorld Bank Economic Review
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.licenseCC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/
dc.subjectMOBILE MONEY
dc.subjectNIGHT LIGHTS
dc.subjectFINANCIAL INCLUSION
dc.subjectKENYA
dc.titleMobile Money and Economic Activityen
dc.title.subtitleEvidence from Kenyaen
dc.typeJournal Article
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okr.crossref.titleMobile Money and Economic Activity: Evidence from Kenya
okr.date.disclosure2024-02-24
okr.date.lastmodified2023-12-11T00:00:00Zen
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okr.identifier.doi10.1093/wber/lhac007
okr.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1596/41101
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okr.region.administrativeAfrica Eastern and Southern (AFE)
okr.region.countryKenya
okr.topicFinance and Financial Sector Development::Payment Systems & Infrastructure
okr.unitOff of Sr VP Dev Econ/Chief Econ (DECVP)
okr.volume36 (3)
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