Access to a Telephone and Factor Market Participation of Rural Households in Bangladesh
研究了电话接入对孟加拉国农村家庭要素市场参与的影响，发现电话使用显著提高了参与概率（约14%），但对已参与家庭的具体市场选择无影响。
Abstract This paper assesses the impact of access to a telephone on rural households’ factor market opportunities. It answers two questions. First, does the use of a telephone have any impact on rural households’ factor market participation? Second, correcting for market participation, does the use of a telephone have any impact on the type of factor market participation? For the first question, the paper uses a bivariate probit to correct for omitted variable bias and for the second question, the paper uses a two‐stage probit. The empirical findings suggest that access to a telephone has a significant positive impact on factor market participation. The difference in market participation between telephone users and non‐users is around 14%. However, once a household participates in the market, the use of a telephone does not have any impact on specific factor market participation.