Gender inequality in mobile technology access: the role of economic and social developmentFootnote^*

* Presented at the ASA 2018 Annual Meeting under a previous title: ‘Women’s Agency and the Gender Digital Divide: A Cross-National Quantile Regression Analysis’.

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