The Effect of Remittances on Child Schooling in Kenya
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Date
2020Author
Yussuf, Abdinasir M
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Developing Countries grapple with inadequate public resources to finance education. Constrained
public resources necessitates household income like remittances to complement public resources
in their quest to finance education of household members. The paper investigated the effects of
remittances on child schooling in Kenya using nationally representative data ─ the 2015/2016
Kenya Integrated household budget survey (KIHBS). Using probit model technique for different
age groups─6-13 and 14-17 corresponding to primary and secondary schooling years respectively.
The results showed that remittances was insignificant in influencing both primary and secondary
schooling. However, household income was of great positive significant impact on school
attendance (primary and secondary) in Kenya. The study also concluded that household size,
household income, and the residential area also positively and significantly determined secondary
school attendance whereas household income and age of the child influenced primary school
attendance in Kenya. The study, therefore, recommends that governments and aid-giving
organizations give households some basic income to increase primary and secondary school
attendance
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University of Nairobi
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