How Decentralized Mobile Coverage Affect Political Violence Dynamics? The Spatial Regression Discontinuity Design in Africa

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Brief Overview

By leveraging a dataset on cellphone towers and political violence incidents, we construct a radio-wave propagation model to measure mobile coverage and analyze its effects through a spatial regression discontinuity design (RDD).

Authors

• Kayi Yang, Tsinghua University

• Jingtian Hu, Tsinghua University