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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
Does Privatization Deliver? Access to Telephone Services and Household Income in Poor Rural Areas Using a Quasi-Natural Experiment for Peru
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| Autores: |
Chong, Alberto E.
Galdo, Virgilio
Torero, Maximo
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| Data: |
2006-06-14
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| Ano: |
2006
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| Palavras-chave: |
Privatization
Institutions
Rural
Poverty
Telecommunications
Consumer/Household Economics
G32
H10
J45
O1
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| Resumo: |
We take advantage of a quasi-natural experiment in Peru by which the privatized telecommunications company was required by government to randomly install and operate public pay phones on small rural towns along the national territory. Using a especially designed household survey for a representative sample of rural towns we are able to link access to telephone services with household income. We find, that regardless of the income measurement, most characteristics of public telephone are positively linked with income. Remarkably, the benefits are given at both non-farm and farm income levels. Not only do the findings hold when using instrumental variables but they are further confirmed when using propensity scores matching methods.
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| Tipo: |
Conference Paper or Presentation
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
22467
http://purl.umn.edu/25691
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| Editor: |
AgEcon Search
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| Relação: |
International Association of Agricultural Economists>2006 Annual Meeting, August 12-18, 2006, Queensland, Australia
Contributed Paper
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| Formato: |
31
application/pdf
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