Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/185295 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 11835
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper investigates the relationship between international migration, remittances and human capital investment in Kenya. We use household level data from the 2009 Kenya Migration Household Survey (produced by the Africa Migration Project) to test our hypothesis and uncover a positive and significant relationship between the amount of international remittances a household receives and the amount of expenditures allocated to education (for all levels of education). We consider various robustness checks and find that our results hold up to various specifications, including an instrumental variable approach.
Subjects: 
migration
remittances
human capital
JEL: 
F24
I25
J61
O12
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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