Saving Lives through Technology : Mobile Phones and Infant Mortality (English)

Digital technologies can expand access to health services to underserved populations. This paper leverages mobile network expansion and survey data spanning two decades to study the impact of access to mobile phones on infant mortality in Africa. Using plausibly exogenous variations in lightning intensity and (sub)regional convergence in mobile penetration as instrumental variables for mobile network expansion, the analysis finds that mobile phones...
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Mensah,Justice Tei; Hirfrfot,Kibrom Tafere; Abay,Kibrom A..

Saving Lives through Technology : Mobile Phones and Infant Mortality (English). Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 9978 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/394931647888314925

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