The Power of Information: The Impact of Mobile Phones on Farmers'Welfare in the Philippines
By Julien Labonne, Robert S. Chase. 2009
206 citations recorded by the source corpus.
The authors explore the impact of access to information on poor farmers consumption. The analysis combines spatially coded data on mobile phone coverage with household panel data on farmers from some of the poorest areas of the Philippines. Both the ordinary least squares and instrumental variable estimates indicate that purchasing a mobile phone has a large, positive impact on the household-level growth rate of per capita consumption. Estimates range from 11 to 17 percent, depending on the sample and the specification chosen. The authors perform a range of reliability tests, the results of which all suggest that the instruments are valid. They also present evidence consistent with the argument that easier access to information allows farmers to strike better price deals within their existing trading relationships and to make better choices in terms of where they choose to sell their goods.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Media Technology, Political Science and International Relations
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/45cd81ce4c4e1a3c1820d4a71bb10d08473f8c47
Citations in the corpus
- Will digital technologies transform agriculture in developing countries (2016, unknown): “…as cereals and cash crops using a variety of communication platforms such as Esoko in Ghana (Niyarko et al 2013), e-choupals in India (Goyal 2010), telecenters in Peru (Beuermann et al 2012), as well as in studies on Niger grain traders (Aker 2010) and Philippine farmers (Labonne and Chase 2009).”
- Impact of SMS-Based Agricultural Information on Indian Farmers (2012, unknown): “We o¤ered a 1Unsing observational household data, Labonne and Chase (2009) estimate a large e¤ect of mobile phone on welfare in the Philippines.”
- Young rural women’s participation in the e-wallet programme and usage intensity of modern agricultural inputs in Nigeria (2018, unknown): “Our findings agree with Labonne and Chase (2009) on power of information and the impact of mobile phones on farmers’ welfare.”