We focus on the relationship between mobile phone ownership and childbearing in south- ern Malawi, showing that mobile phone acquisition is associated with reductions in ideal family size and lower overall parity among phone-owning women compared to their phone-less counterparts.
Mobile phones, digital inequality, and fertility: Longitudinal evidence from Malawi
Billari, Francesco;Rotondi, Valentina
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2020
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We focus on the relationship between mobile phone ownership and childbearing in south- ern Malawi, showing that mobile phone acquisition is associated with reductions in ideal family size and lower overall parity among phone-owning women compared to their phone-less counterparts.
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