Mobile Banking: The Impact of M-Pesa in Kenya

By I. Mbiti, David N. Weil. 2011

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Information Systems, Media Technology

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Airtime transfers and mobile communications: Evidence in the aftermath of natural disasters (2016, background): “…asymmetries and search costs in agricultural markets (Jensen 2007, Aker 2008, Fafchamps & Minten 2012, Aker & Fafchamps 2014), lower transaction costs (Jack & Suri 2014), and potentially provide an alternative device for savings (Mbiti & Weil 2011, Mas & Mayer 2011, Blumenstock et al. 2015).”
Challenges in Banking the Rural Poor: Evidence from Kenya's Western Province (2015, neutral): “[49] Mbiti, Isaac and David Weil (2011).”
Mobile money and risk sharing against village shocks (2018, background): “Mbiti and Weil (2011) describe the impact of M-Pesa in Kenya, finding that M-Pesa changes the pattern of remittance by increasing the frequency and volume of urban-rural transfers while lowering the price of competing remittance services such as Western Union.”
ACHIEVING THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (2016, background): “Digital financial services make it easier to access insurance and other formal products (Kirk et al. 2011; Mbiti and Weil 2011; Manfre and Nordehn 2013).”
Fintech, financial inclusion and income inequality: a quantile regression approach (2020, methodology): “Robust standard errors in parentheses: *** p < 0.01, ** p < 0.05, * p < 0.1. financial inclusion (Mookerjee and Kalipioni 2010; Kim2016 ; Park and Mercado2018 ; Turégano and Herrero 2018) or microfinance (Kai and Hamori 2009; Hermes2014 ; Lacalle-Calderon et al. 2019).”
Building financial resilience through financial and digital literacy in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa (2020, positive): “…the impacts of DFS on saving behavior, finding that mobile money significantly increased the likelihood of savings and money transfers and reduced the propensity to use informal savings channels (Apiors & Suzuki, 2018; Demombynes & Thegeya, 2012; Mbiti & Weil, 2015; Ouma, Odongo, & Were, 2017).”
Improving Access to Banking: Evidence from Kenya (2013, neutral): “With the same household surveys that we use, Mbiti and Weil (2011) show that M-PESA is primarily used for transferring money from individual to individual rather than as a vehicle for saving, and that its use increases the probability of being banked.”
Will digital technologies transform agriculture in developing countries (2016, neutral): “This has dramatically reduced the cost of sending money across large distances (Mbiti and Weil 2015).”
The impact of mobile phone penetration on African inequality (2013, background): “With respect to Mbiti & Weil (2011), the story of the growth of mobile phones in Africa is one of a tectonic and unexpected change in communications technology.”