Mobile phones, digital inequality, and fertility: Longitudinal evidence from Malawi

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce the digital revolution as a potential ingredient of sub-Saharan Africa's fertility transition. OBJECTIVEWe focus on the relationship between mobile phone ownership and childbearing in southern Malawi, showing that mobile phone acquisition is associated with reductions in ideal family size and lower overall parity among phone-owning women compared to their phone-less counterparts.

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