2023-09-28 14:46:10 +00:00
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abstract: 'Rural households in developing countries often depend on agriculture for
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their livelihoods. However, many also pursue off-farm economic
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activities either to complement their farm income or because they lack
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access to agricultural land. Rural off-farm employment is often informal
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and temporary. Searching for jobs can be associated with high
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transaction costs, which may be a constraint on some households''
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participation in off-farm employment. The increasing spread of mobile
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phones may help to reduce these transaction costs. Here, we test the
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hypothesis that mobile phone ownership increases rural households''
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participation in off-farm employment and-through this mechanism-also
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improves household income. We use nationally representative panel data
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from rural India and regression models with household fixed effects to
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control for confounding factors and unobserved heterogeneity. We find
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that mobile phone ownership is positively associated with the likelihood
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of participating in various types of off-farm employment, including
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casual wage labour, salaried employment and non-agricultural
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self-employment. This association is larger in female-headed than in
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male-headed households. The estimates also show that mobile phone
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ownership is positively associated with household income, partly
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channelled through the off-farm employment mechanism.'
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affiliation: 'Rajkhowa, P (Corresponding Author), Univ Bonn, Ctr Dev Res ZEF, Bonn,
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Germany.
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Rajkhowa, Pallavi; Qaim, Matin, Univ Bonn, Ctr Dev Res ZEF, Bonn, Germany.
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Qaim, Matin, Univ Bonn, Inst Food \& Resource Econ, Bonn, Germany.'
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author: Rajkhowa, Pallavi and Qaim, Matin
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author-email: diptarajkhowa@gmail.com
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author_list:
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- family: Rajkhowa
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given: Pallavi
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- family: Qaim
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given: Matin
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da: '2023-09-28'
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doi: 10.1111/1477-9552.12480
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earlyaccessdate: MAR 2022
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eissn: 1477-9552
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files: []
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issn: 0021-857X
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journal: JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
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keywords: household income; ICT; India; mobile phones; off-farm employment
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keywords-plus: 'NONFARM EMPLOYMENT; ECONOMIC-DEVELOPMENT; MARKET-INFORMATION; ICT;
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POVERTY; ACCESS; INEQUALITY; PRODUCTIVITY; TECHNOLOGY; DYNAMICS'
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language: English
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month: SEP
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number: '3'
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number-of-cited-references: '43'
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orcid-numbers: 'Rajkhowa, Pallavi/0000-0002-3265-2420
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Qaim, Matin/0000-0003-4143-0763'
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pages: 789-805
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papis_id: 2fc4a7aafdc515befdabd40311a846bb
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ref: Rajkhowa2022mobilephones
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researcherid-numbers: 'Rajkhowa, Pallavi/AAG-4433-2020
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Qaim, Matin/P-4489-2016'
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times-cited: '14'
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title: Mobile phones, off-farm employment and household income in rural India
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2023-10-01 08:15:07 +00:00
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type: article
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2023-09-28 14:46:10 +00:00
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unique-id: WOS:000762341200001
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usage-count-last-180-days: '16'
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usage-count-since-2013: '64'
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volume: '73'
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web-of-science-categories: Agricultural Economics \& Policy; Economics
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year: '2022'
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