Impact of Internet Access on Household’s Income in the Department of Puno, Peru

Alfredo Pelayo Calatayud Mendoza, Bestsabe Aurora Llerena-Zea, Edgar Villahermosa-Quispe, Patricia Schettini Chialchia and Ludwing Roald Flores-Quispe
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Alfredo Pelayo Calatayud Mendoza: Universidad Nacional del Altiplano
Bestsabe Aurora Llerena-Zea: Universidad Nacional del Altiplano – Puno
Edgar Villahermosa-Quispe: Universidad Nacional del Altiplano – Puno
Patricia Schettini Chialchia: Universidad Nacional de La Plata
Ludwing Roald Flores-Quispe: Universidad Nacional del Altiplano – Puno

Lecturas de Economía, 2023, issue 99, 175-207

Abstract: The aim of this article is estimating the impact of mobile internet access on economic income during the COVID-19 pandemic of 2021 in the department of Puno, quasi-experimental methods were applied: Propensity Score Matching (PSM) and reweighting for causal effects: balance of entropy (EE), two sources of information were used: data from the Residential Survey of Telecommunications Services with a sample of 906 observations and primary data, from a survey based on the perception of women dedicated to textile crafts and clothing with a sample of 262 observations. The results with the PSM method show that the economic income of heads of household with access to mobile internet was higher by 45.6 %, in relation to the hypothetical situation in which they have not accessed the internet (p

Keywords: access to internet; impact; Propensity Score Matching; entropy; economic income; households; crafts (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C01 C25 C31 D31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.17533/udea.le.n99a352419

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