Saving lives through technology: Mobile phones and infant mortality

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionSub-Saharan Africa
cg.coverage.regionMiddle Africa
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.coverage.regionNorthern Africa
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Africa
cg.coverage.regionWestern Africa
cg.creator.identifierKibrom Abay: 0000-0003-1451-2421
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Developing Local Extension Capacity (DLEC)
cg.identifier.publicationRankNot ranked
cg.identifier.urlhttp://hdl.handle.net/10986/37200en
cg.placeWashington, DCen
cg.reviewStatusInternal Reviewen
dc.contributor.authorMensah, Justice Teien
dc.contributor.authorTafere, Kibromen
dc.contributor.authorAbay, Kibrom A.en
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-12T13:37:16Zen
dc.date.available2024-04-12T13:37:16Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/141087
dc.titleSaving lives through technology: Mobile phones and infant mortalityen
dcterms.abstractDigital technologies can expand access to health services to underserved populations. This paper leverages mobile network expansion and survey data spanning two decades to study the impact of access to mobile phones on infant mortality in Africa. Using plausibly exogenous variations in lightning intensity and (sub)regional convergence in mobile penetration as instrumental variables for mobile network expansion, the analysis finds that mobile phones significantly reduce infant mortality. A 10 percentage point increase in mobile coverage is associated with a 0.45 percentage point reduction in infant mortality. Improvements in health knowledge and behavior and health care utilization appear to be plausible channels.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationMensah, Justice Tei; Tafere, Kibrom; and Abay, Kibrom A. 2022. Saving lives through technology: Mobile phones and infant mortality. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 9978. Washington, DC: World Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37200en
dcterms.isPartOfWorld Bank Policy Research Working Paperen
dcterms.issued2022-03-30
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-3.0-IGO
dcterms.publisherWorld Banken
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll5/id/8193en
dcterms.subjectinfantsen
dcterms.subjecthealthen
dcterms.subjecttechnologyen
dcterms.subjectmobile data equipmenten
dcterms.subjectmortalityen
dcterms.subjectinformation and communication technologiesen
dcterms.subjectdigital technologyen
dcterms.typeWorking Paper

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