Replication data for: Risk Sharing and Transactions Costs: Evidence from Kenya's Mobile Money Revolution
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) William Jack; Tavneet Suri
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Project Citation:
Jack, William, and Suri, Tavneet. Replication data for: Risk Sharing and Transactions Costs: Evidence from Kenya’s Mobile Money Revolution. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2014. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-11. https://doi.org/10.3886/E112723V1
Project Description
Summary:
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We explore the impact of reduced transaction costs on risk sharing by
estimating the effects of a mobile money innovation on consumption.
In our panel sample, adoption of the innovation increased from 43 to
70 percent. We find that, while shocks reduce consumption by 7 percent
for nonusers, the consumption of user households is unaffected. The
mechanisms underlying these consumption effects are increases in
remittances received and the diversity of senders. We report robustness
checks supporting these results and use the four-fold expansion of the
mobile money agent network as a source of exogenous variation in
access to the innovation.
Scope of Project
JEL Classification:
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E42 Monetary Systems; Standards; Regimes; Government and the Monetary System; Payment Systems
G22 Insurance; Insurance Companies; Actuarial Studies
O16 Economic Development: Financial Markets; Saving and Capital Investment; Corporate Finance and Governance
O17 Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements
Z13 Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
E42 Monetary Systems; Standards; Regimes; Government and the Monetary System; Payment Systems
G22 Insurance; Insurance Companies; Actuarial Studies
O16 Economic Development: Financial Markets; Saving and Capital Investment; Corporate Finance and Governance
O17 Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements
Z13 Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
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