Mobile Money Payment: An Antidote to Petty Corruption?

dc.contributor.authorBarasa, Laura
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-28T12:59:15Z
dc.date.available2022-04-28T12:59:15Z
dc.date.issued2021-08
dc.description.abstractUsing a two-period panel comprising firm-level data from the 2007 and 2013 World Bank Enterprise Surveys, this paper investigates the impact of mobile money use on bribe payments in Kenya. Results based on a matched difference in-differences estimator demonstrate that adopting mobile money for financial transactions leads to a 3.1 percentage point reduction in bribe payments. This can be explained considering that mobile money transactions leave behind a detailed trail of digital records and accounts, which may curb acts of bribery. Our findings suggest that official mobile money payments can be a practical and effective anti-corruption intervention.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://publication.aercafricalibrary.org/handle/123456789/3332
dc.publisherAfrican Economic Research Consortiumen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries;No.763
dc.titleMobile Money Payment: An Antidote to Petty Corruption?en_US
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