Off the Hook: Measuring the Impact of Mobile Telephone Use on Economic Development of Households in Uganda using Copulas.
It is now widely understood that mobile phone use has beneficial effects on development in developing countries, but little is known about the effects at the household level. We examine the impact of mobile telephone use on household income using a unique cross-sectional data set from Uganda. We use...
| Published in: | Journal of Development Studies Vol. 52; no. 3; pp. 315 - 331 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Mar2016
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