TY  - JOUR
T1  - Determinants of Remittance Receipts in Rural Nigeria
AU - W. Olowa, Olatomide AU - Taiwo Awoyemi, Timothy AU - Omonona, B.T. 
JO  - The Social Sciences
VL  - 7
IS  - 1
SP  - 117
EP  - 124
PY  - 2012
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1818-5800
DO  - sscience.2012.117.124
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2012.117.124
KW  - Migration
KW  -remittances
KW  -multinomial logit
KW  -economic
KW  -significant
KW  -rural Nigeria
AB  - This study uses NLSS, 2004 data collected for rural Nigeria to estimate a multinomial logit model of the economic and demographic determinants of migration and receipt of remittances in rural Nigeria. Findings show that most of the human capital variables are statistically insignificant. However for internal remittances, households with more educated members at the secondary school level (X<SUB>2</SUB>), age of household head (X<SUB>4</SUB>), number of male over age 15 (X<SUB>7</SUB>), zones 1-3 and 5, land size (X<SUB>11</SUB>) are positive and significantly associated with internal migration and receiving internal remittances. Likewise for international remittances, households with more educated members at the university level (X<SUB>3</SUB>), age of household head (X<SUB>4</SUB>) and land size (X<SUB>11</SUB>) are positive and significantly associated with receiving international remittances.
ER  -