Look Who's Talking: The Impacts of the Intrahousehold Allocation of Mobile Phones on Agricultural Prices

Using data from the Philippines, we study the impact of mobile phones on the prices agricultural producers receive for their cash crop. We first look at the impact on price of mobile phone ownership at the household level. Because this masks a considerable amount of heterogeneity, we then look at th...

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Published inThe Journal of development studies Vol. 49; no. 5; pp. 624 - 640
Main Authors Lee, Kyeong Ho, Bellemare, Marc F.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Routledge 01.05.2013
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
Agricultural prices
Agricultural production
Agricultural Research
Cash crops
Cellular telephones
Farmers
Households
Market prices
Mobile phones
Ownership
Philippines
Philippines
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Summary:Using data from the Philippines, we study the impact of mobile phones on the prices agricultural producers receive for their cash crop. We first look at the impact on price of mobile phone ownership at the household level. Because this masks a considerable amount of heterogeneity, we then look at the impact on price of the intrahousehold allocation of mobile phones. We find that whether the household owns a mobile phone has no impact on price, but whether a farmer or spouse owns a mobile phone is associated with a 5- to 8-per cent increase in price.
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ISSN:0022-0388
1743-9140
DOI:10.1080/00220388.2012.740014