Mobile Banking and Women Empowerment - A field study in Kenya
(2015) NEKN01 20151Department of Economics
- Abstract
- This study investigates how the usage of a Kenyan mobile banking service called M-pesa affects women empowerment and if different forms of usage have a significant effect. This is done through the distribution of a questionnaire in Nairobi, Kenya. Through both a OLS and a 2SLS model the answers about a person’s usage of M-pesa is then run against a constructed a women empowerment index and against control variables which are also collected in the questionnaire.
The main findings of this study is that there are no conclusive evidence for that a higher usage usage of M-pesa have a positive effect on women empowerment. Furthermore this paper doesn’t finds any evidence for that the different usages of M-pesa individually has a conclusively... (More) - This study investigates how the usage of a Kenyan mobile banking service called M-pesa affects women empowerment and if different forms of usage have a significant effect. This is done through the distribution of a questionnaire in Nairobi, Kenya. Through both a OLS and a 2SLS model the answers about a person’s usage of M-pesa is then run against a constructed a women empowerment index and against control variables which are also collected in the questionnaire.
The main findings of this study is that there are no conclusive evidence for that a higher usage usage of M-pesa have a positive effect on women empowerment. Furthermore this paper doesn’t finds any evidence for that the different usages of M-pesa individually has a conclusively positive effect on women empowerment. (Less)
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- author
- Simonsson, Erik LU and Walin, Axel LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- NEKN01 20151
- year
- 2015
- type
- H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
- subject
- keywords
- Women Empowerment, M-pesa, Mobile banking, Kenya, Instrumental variables
- language
- English
- id
- 7793631
- date added to LUP
- 2015-09-15 12:59:51
- date last changed
- 2015-09-15 12:59:51
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