The Digital Provide: Information (Technology), Market Performance, and Welfare in the South Indian Fisheries Sector

By Robert T. Jensen. 2007

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Engendering Agricultural Research, Development, and Extension (2012, background): “Mobile phones have been used by fishermen in India to check prices in various markets before selling their products, thereby increasing their profits and reducing wastage (Jensen 2007).”
Measuring Mobile Phone Use: Self-Report Versus Log Data (2013, background): “Textile weavers in Nigeria (Jagun, Heeks, & Whalley, 2008) fishers in India (Jensen, 2007), and lovers in Mozambique (Archambault, 2011) have all adopted the mobile phone for their various purposes.”
The Implications of Utilizing Market Information and Adopting Agricultural Advice for Farmers in Developing Economies (2015, background): “These factors further aggravate the difﬁcult situation faced by those at the bottom of the pyramid, as this large population of farmers has few income sources (Jensen 2007).”
Will digital technologies transform agriculture in developing countries (2016, positive): “In agriculture, Jensen’s seminal study of Kerala fishermen provided a clean identification of significant impacts of mobile phones on earnings, price volatility and reducing waste (Jensen 2007).”
History, Path Dependence and Development: Evidence from Colonial Railroads, Settlers and Cities in Kenya (2017, neutral): “The following summary draws from Hill (1950), Morgan (1963), Soja (1968), Sorrenson (1968) and Kapila (2009).”
Using agriculture for development: Supply- and demand-side approaches (2020, neutral): “The role of IT services in reducing search costs, lowering local price volatility, raising average producer prices, and lowering consumer prices was observed by Jensen (2007) for fish in India and by Aker (2010) for grains in Niger.”
Airtime transfers and mobile communications: Evidence in the aftermath of natural disasters (2016, background): “…this area describes how mobile phones can, under certain conditions, reduce information 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…”
A review of evidence on mobile use by micro and small enterprises in developing countries (2010, background): “Ethnographies (Thomas S.J. Molony, 2006; Jagun et al., 2008; Overå, 2006) tended to discuss a broader range of uses and impacts than focused quantitative tests (Jensen, 2007; Aker, 2008; Donner, 2007b).”
Information Frictions in Trade (2014, background): “…agricultural trade, Philippines, search, intermediaries, gravity JEL Classification: D83, F10, F14, O13, Q11, Q13, Q15 ∗I am extremely grateful to Costas Arkolakis, David Atkin, Penny Goldberg, Mark Rosenzweig, and Chris Udry for their substantial guidance and support throughout this project.”