Jurnal Ekonomi Pembangunan
Vol. 19 No. 1 (2021): Jurnal Ekonomi Pembangunan

Women Access and Awareness of Financial Inclusion in Indonesia

Lienggar Rahadiantino (Department of Development Studies, Faculty of Creative Design and Digital Business, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember)
Ariska Nurfajar Rini (Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Diponegoro, Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
03 Jul 2021

Abstract

The financial system plays a role in creating a community economic development, especially overcoming gender disparities. This paper analyzes the effect of mobile phone on the financial inclusion of women's in Indonesia involving data from household surveys provided by the 2014 Family Life Survey. We use the probit model with Ordinary Least Square (OLS) methods and the variable procedure to examine how the role of mobile phone on women's awareness in accessing financial institutions, as well as increasing savings and loan ownership. Our estimation results found that mobile phone penetration significantly increased awareness of women to access formal financial institutions, improve saving behavior, higher credit amount and access mobile banking. Therefore, mobile phone brings great benefits in increasing financial inclusion, especially women in Indonesia.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jep

Publisher

Subject

Economics, Econometrics & Finance

Description

Jurnal Ekonomi Pembangunan is a peer-reviewed journal that provides a forum for scientific works pertaining to Development Economics. Published twice in a year (June and December). This Journal has p-ISSN 1829-5843, and e-ISSN 2685-0788. This journal was first published since June 2003 by the ...