Mobile money and healthcare use: evidence from East Africa

Sammanfattning

This paper uses a difference-in-difference framework to estimate the effects of mobile money transfer technology (MMT) on healthcare usage in the face of negative health shocks. We use survey data from 2013-16 with quarterly observations on about 1,600 households of 10 villages in the Kisumu region of Western Kenya. We find evidence that MMT, likely through greater ease of informal borrowing, helps households increase utilization of formal healthcare services in terms of visits to a clinic, consultation and medication expenditures in comparison with the nonusers of this technology

Nyckelord

economy; healthcare

Publicerad i

NBER working papers
2019, nummer: 25669
Utgivare: National Bureau of Economic Research

SLU författare

• Ahmed, Haseeb

  • Institutionen för kliniska vetenskaper, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    
  • Information Technology University

UKÄ forskningsämne

Hälso- och sjukvårdsorganisation, hälsopolitik och hälsoekonomi

Publikationens identifierare

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.3386/w25669

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https://res.slu.se/id/publ/101298