Mobile Broadband Internet, Poverty and Labor Outcomes in Tanzania
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چکیده
What are the impacts of expanding mobile broadband coverage on poverty, household consumption and labor market outcomes in developing countries? Who benefits from improved internet? To respond to these questions, this paper applies a difference-in-differences estimation using panel survey data combined with geospatial information rollout Tanzania. The results reveal that being covered by 3G networks has large positive effect total poverty reduction, driven outcomes. Working age individuals living areas internet witnessed an increase force participation, wage employment, non-farm self-employment, decline farm employment. These effects vary age, gender skill level. Younger more skilled men benefit most through higher participation while high-skilled women transitions self-employed work into
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: World Bank policy research working paper
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1813-9450']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-9749