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.

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肯尼亚的移民，汇款和人力资本投资

本文研究了肯尼亚的国际移民，汇款与人力资本投资之间的关系。我们使用来自2009年肯尼亚移民家庭调查（由非洲移民项目制作）的家庭数据来检验我们的假设，并发现一个家庭收到的国际汇款金额与分配给教育的支出金额（用于各级教育）。我们考虑了各种鲁棒性检查，发现我们的结果符合各种规范，包括工具变量方法。