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Mobile Money and Healthcare Use: Evidence from East Africa / Haseeb Ahmed, Benjamin W. Cowan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ahmed, Haseeb.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w25669.
- NBER working paper series no. w25669
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Mobile Money and Healthcare Use
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2019.
- Summary:
- This paper uses a difference-in-difference framework to estimate the effects of mobile money transfer technology (MMT) on healthcare usage in the face of negative health shocks. We use survey data from 2013-16 with quarterly observations on about 1,600 households of 10 villages in the Kisumu region of Western Kenya. We find evidence that MMT, likely through greater ease of informal borrowing, helps households increase utilization of formal healthcare services in terms of visits to a clinic, consultation and medication expenditures in comparison with the non-users of this technology.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- March 2019.
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