Mobile Internet and income improvement: Evidence from Viet Nam

Trang Thi Pham

No wp-2023-145, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: New developments of existing technologies over time have led to emergent patterns of technology adoption and, accordingly, changing impacts on economy and society. Focusing on the arrival of mobile internet in the early 2010s in developing countries, this paper identifies significant positive effects on provinces' average household income in Viet Nam. The effect sizes are larger for lower-income quintiles and for rural areas, suggesting the more inclusive changing impact of the innovation over the last decade.

Keywords: Household income; Internet; Mobile technologies; Technological change; Developing countries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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