Type of Resource:
Journal Article

Year of Publication:
2019

Indicators:
- Trends


Themes:
- Internet Access, Affordability And Use

Author(s): Simplice A. Asongu and Nicholas M. Odhiambo

Impact/Outcome: internet penetration reduces poor education and enhancing internet penetration has a net negative effect of greater magnitude. Mobile phone (internet penetration) consis- tently has a negative effect on poor education quality with a non-monotonic pattern. While internet penetration does not signifi- cantly affect poor education quality in top quantiles of the education quality distribu- tion, when internet penetration is enhanced; net negative effects are established in top quantiles of poor education quality

URL
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10639-019-09880-9

Region of Study:


Country of Study:
Africa,

Study Quality
High