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Migrant Remittances and Physical Investment Purchases: Evidence from Kenyan Households

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  • Farai Jena

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This paper investigates the impact of remittances on household decisions to purchase physical investments in Kenya using household survey data. An instrumental variables approach is employed using rainfall variation and mobile network coverage as instruments to control for the endogeneity of remittances. The empirical evidence obtained is suggestive of remittances having a positive and significant effect on the decisions by households to purchase physical investments.

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  • Farai Jena, 2018. "Migrant Remittances and Physical Investment Purchases: Evidence from Kenyan Households," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 54(2), pages 312-326, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jdevst:v:54:y:2018:i:2:p:312-326
    DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2017.1288219
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    1. Khraiche, Maroula & Boudreau, James, 2020. "Can lower remittance costs improve human capital accumulation in Africa?," Journal of Policy Modeling, Elsevier, vol. 42(5), pages 1000-1021.
    2. Peter Nderitu GITHAIGA, 2019. "Foreign Remittances, Private Sector Investment and Banking Sector Development," Journal of Economics and Financial Analysis, Tripal Publishing House, vol. 3(2), pages 85-112.
    3. Melain Modeste Senou & Denis Acclassato Houensou, 2024. "From expanding financial services to tackling poverty in West African Economic and Monetary Union: The accelerating role of mobile money," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 36(3), pages 1707-1737, April.
    4. Md Shahadath Hossain & Adesola Sunmoni, "undated". "Do Remittances Influence Household Investment Decisions? Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa," Economics Discussion Papers em-dp2021-04, Department of Economics, University of Reading.
    5. Satoshi Shimizutani & Eiji Yamada, 2021. "Resilience against the pandemic: The impact of COVID-19 on migration and household welfare in Tajikistan," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 16(9), pages 1-20, September.
    6. Joseph B. Ajefu & Joseph O. Ogebe, 2021. "The effects of international remittances on expenditure patterns of the left‐behind households in Sub‐Saharan Africa," Review of Development Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 25(1), pages 405-429, February.

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