Access to information, price expectations and welfare: the role of mobile phone adoption in Ethiopia
Using household survey data from rural Ethiopia, this study explores the role of mobile telephony in smallholder farmers' price expectation formations. The empirical findings suggest that farmers who own mobile phones and who reside closer to markets make smaller price forecasting errors. The benefi...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Elsevier
2019
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/103389 |
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