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The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research was supported by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada, and UK Aid of the Department for International Development (DFID), UK.

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Mobile Phone Network and Migration: Evidence From Myanmar

Publicated to:INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION REVIEW. 56 (2): 594 -614 - 2022-06-01 56(2), DOI: 10.1177/01979183211041030

Authors: Hombrados, Jorge G; Ciacci, Riccardo; Zainudeen, Ayesha

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LIRNEasia, Colombo, Sri Lanka - Author
Univ Pontificia Comillas, Dept Econ & Business Management, Madrid, Spain - Author

Abstract

This International Migration Review research note explores the effect of the expansion of mobile phone networks on migration decisions in Myanmar. Building on the work of scholars in economics, the empirical strategy uses variation in lightning frequency across space as an instrumental variable for the expansion of mobile phone networks. Our results suggest that villages with longer exposure to mobile phone networks exhibit reductions in out-migration. Specifically, an increase of one standard deviation in the time exposed to mobile phone networks diminishes the probability that household members migrate by 17 percent. We find empirical evidence suggesting that such findings are driven by the positive effects of mobile phone networks on labor market outcomes and the perceived well-being of individuals.

Keywords
Economic-developmentF22L96Labor market outcomesMigrationMobile phonesO53PerformanceTechnologyTests

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION REVIEW due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2022, it was in position 4/30, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Demography.

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-04-24:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 16.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 16 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 3.85.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 5 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
  • Assignment of a Handle/URN as an identifier within the deposit in the Institutional Repository: https://repositorio.uam.es/handle/10486/717283
Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: Sri Lanka.

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (GARCIA HOMBRADOS, JORGE) .

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been GARCIA HOMBRADOS, JORGE.