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- Catia Batista & Pedro C. Vicente, 2020. "Adopting Mobile Money: Evidence from an Experiment in Rural Africa," AEA Papers and Proceedings, American Economic Association, vol. 110, pages 594-598, May.
- Batista, Catia & Vicente, Pedro C., 2020. "Adopting Mobile Money: Evidence from an Experiment in Rural Africa," IZA Discussion Papers 12934, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
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Keywords
Fintech; Mobile money; Technology adoption; Self-selection; Financial inclusion; Financial deepening; Mozambique; Africa.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- E42 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Monetary Sytsems; Standards; Regimes; Government and the Monetary System
- G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
- G51 - Financial Economics - - Household Finance - - - Household Savings, Borrowing, Debt, and Wealth
- O16 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Financial Markets; Saving and Capital Investment; Corporate Finance and Governance
- O18 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AFR-2020-02-17 (Africa)
- NEP-FLE-2020-02-17 (Financial Literacy and Education)
- NEP-MFD-2020-02-17 (Microfinance)
- NEP-MON-2020-02-17 (Monetary Economics)
- NEP-PAY-2020-02-17 (Payment Systems and Financial Technology)
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