Household welfare in the digital age: Assessing the effect of mobile money on household consumption volatility in developing countries

Apeti, Ablam Estel

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2022.106110

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“…These factors can also affect the quality of tax policy and administration, thus making mobile money adoption endogenous (not random), through a selection bias. To address this endogeneity issue, we use the entropy balancing method proposed by Hainmueller (2012) following previous studies (e.g., Basri et al 2021;Apeti 2023a;Apeti and Edoh 2023). Entropy balancing is widely used in the literature, including Neuenkirch and Neumeier (2016), to assess the impact of U.S. sanctions on poverty, Ogrokhina and Rodriguez (2019) to assess the effect of inflation targeting on international debt denomination, Caselli and Wingender (2021) to evaluate the effect of fiscal rules, Apeti (2023b) to examine the effect of sovereign debt default on inequality, Apeti and N'Doua (2023) to analyse the trade effect of timber and timber products regulations.…”

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“…High inflation periods could incite economic agents to adopt mobile money in order to mitigate the shoe leather cost effect (Apeti and Edoh 2023). In addition, it could also be argued that a healthy economic environment could promote the effectiveness of reforms such as mobile money (Apeti 2023a;Apeti and Edoh 2023). Finally, the correlation between mobile money and government effectiveness can be ambiguous.…”

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“…Indeed, the use of a dummy variable in a crosscountry analysis does not take into account mobile money deployment and the intensity of its use. In order to overcome this issue, we follow Apeti (2023a) and use the number of active mobile money accounts per population from the IMF's FAS. We then re-estimate our effect using the two-step system-GMM (Blundell and Bond 1998) to control for the potential endogeneity problem.…”

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Finding the Missing Stone: Mobile Money and the Quality of Tax Policy and Administration

Apeti,

Edoh

2024

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Making tax administration more efficient and maximising voluntary compliance is a very difficult task for developing countries. In this paper, we analyse the effect of mobile money payments on the quality of tax policy and administration for a large sample of countries in developing economies. We use the World Bank indicator on efficiency of revenue mobilisation as a measure of the quality of tax policy and administration and employ an entropy balancing method to show that mobile money payments improve the quality of tax systems. This result is robust to several robustness tests, including sample alteration, alternative measures of mobile money, controlling for other aspects of tax policy, and alternative estimation methods such as GMM-system, event study approach and ordinary least square. In addition, our results show that the positive effect of mobile money on tax systems depends on the level of development, financial development, the state’s legitimacy, a country’s fiscal space, the number of available products/companies, the type of mobile money services, and the geographic position of countries. Finally, we highlight some potential mechanisms underlying these findings through lower tax compliance burden, smaller informal sector, and lower corruption.

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Finding the Missing Stone: Mobile Money and the Quality of Tax Policy and Administration

Apeti,

Edoh

2024

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“…To circumvent this problem, we use Entropy Balancing Method (EBM), which is an impact assessment method developed by Hainmueller (2012). This method is widely use in the literature (Apeti, 2023 Entropy Balancing allow us to identify the impact of constitutional environmental protection comparing CEP and non-CEP countries. that are similar in observable characteristics, while controlling for time and country-xed effects.…”

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Does constitutional protection of the environment matter for environmental quality?

Ondobo,

Ndoya,

Okere

2024

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This paper extends the literature on the role of institutions on environmental quality, by assessing the impact of constitutional environmental protection (CEP) on environmental quality. Using a panel dataset covering 119 countries over the period 1990 to 2020, and after employing Entropy Balancing Methodology (EBM), we find that, adoption of CEP significantly increases environmental quality. We demonstrate that this finding is extremely robust to different alternative estimation methods such as propensity score matching (PSM), the Inverse Probability Treatment Weighting (IPTW), the Augmented Inverse Probability Treatment Weighting (AIPTW) and the dynamic panel analysis. Moreover, we show that the effect of constitutional environmental protection varies systematically depending on the region, types of legal origin and the level of pollution. Finally, we provide evidence that state experience in CEP, improves consideration of environmental concerns and consequently increases environmental quality.

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“…This factor influences the way people interact and communicate, as well as how they form opinions on various topics. In this context, studies have shown that digital literacy skills influence the way people form opinions, including in terms of their influence on political and cultural opinions (Apeti, 2022).…”

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Public Opinion Formation in the Digital Age : A Review of Literature

Diah Fatma Sjoraida,

Bucky Wibawa Karya Guna,

Aat Ruchiat Nungraha

et al. 2024

IJEET

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The digital age has brought significant changes in the way people access and process information. Social media and other online platforms have become a major source of information and public opinion. This study aims to review the literature on public opinion formation in the digital age. This study uses the literature review method to analyze literature relevant to the research topic. A literature review shows that the digital age has had a significant impact on the formation of public opinion. Social media and other online platforms have become the primary means for individuals to access information, share ideas, and exchange opinions. This has led to changes in the way public opinion is formed and disseminated. The formation of public opinion in the digital age is a complex and dynamic phenomenon. Social media and other online platforms have an important role to play in shaping public opinion. A better understanding of the process of forming public opinion in the digital age is needed to develop effective communication strategies and build a more democratic society.

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Household welfare in the digital age: Assessing the effect of mobile money on household consumption volatility in developing countries

Cited by 29 publications

References 112 publications

Finding the Missing Stone: Mobile Money and the Quality of Tax Policy and Administration

Finding the Missing Stone: Mobile Money and the Quality of Tax Policy and Administration

Does constitutional protection of the environment matter for environmental quality?

Public Opinion Formation in the Digital Age : A Review of Literature

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