The role of mobile money in household resilience: Evidence from Kenya

Becatien Yao, Aleksan Shanoyan, Benjamin Schwab and Vincent Amanor-Boadu

World Development, 2023, vol. 165, issue C

Abstract: •Results indicate a positive effect of mobile money on household resilience metric.•A 10 km drop in the distance user-agent increases resilience by a percentage point.•Study finds that mobile money users are more likely to withstand severe shocks.•Findings establish new evidence on the long-run effect of digital payments.

Keywords: Keywords; Mobile money; Resilience; Poverty; Digital payments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2023.106198

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