摘要：This paper theoretically examines the effect of labor migration on education investment in migrant-sending countries,
focusing on negative selection migration where unskilled workers migrate. Negative selection migration has two
conflicting effects. On one hand, the prospect of children's future migration would reduce education incentives. On the
other hand, parents' migration provides remittances and this could encourage education investment. This paper
presents a simple model to simultaneously incorporate these two effects. The results show that, in countries where the
quality of education is high, the positive effect of parents' remittances outweighs the negative effect of the prospect of
future migration. However, in countries with poor education quality, the negative effect of the prospect plays the main
role and reduces education investment. Improving the quality of education is vital for obtaining a positive consequence
from negative selection migration.
