Essays in Development Economics

Economic development is often associated with the adoption of new technologies. The three chapters in this dissertation ask how societies can achieve efficient adoption of these technologies. The first two chapters analyze the dramatic spread of a new communication technology---the mobile phone---in...

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Main Author: Bjorkegren, Daniel Ingvar
Other Authors: Kremer, Michael Robert
Language:en_US
Published: Harvard University 2014
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Online Access:http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11358
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:12274106