D. McKenzie - Other Publications

Journal Articles

• Migration and Mental Health: Evidence from a Natural Experiment  with J. Gibson and S. Stillman, Journal of Health Economics, 28(3): 677-87, 2009.
• Does it pay firms to register for taxes? The impact of formality on firm profitability with Y. S. Sakho, Journal of Development Economics, forthcoming.
• Impact Assessments in Finance and Private Sector Development: What have we learned and what should we learn?, World Bank Research Observer, forthcoming
• Are Women More Credit Constrained? Experimental Evidence on Gender and Microenterprise Returns, with S. de Mel and C. Woodruff, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, forthcoming
• In Pursuit of Balance: Randomization in Practice in Development Field Experiments, with M. Bruhn, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, forthcoming
• Self-Selection Patterns in Mexico-U.S. Migration: The Role of Migration Networks, with H. Rapoport, Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.
• Japanese-Brazilians and the Future of Brazilian Migration to Japan, with A. Salcedo, International Migration, forthcoming.

• Surveying Migrant Households: A Comparison of Census-based, Snowball, and Intercept Surveys, with J. Mistiaen, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 172(2): 339-360, 2009.

• Experimental Evidence on Returns to Capital and Access to Finance in Mexico, with C. Woodruff, World Bank Economic Review, 22(3): 457-82.

• How Important is Selection? Experimental Vs Non-experimental Measures of the Income Gains from Migration, with J. Gibson and S. Stillman, Journal of the European Economic Association, forthcoming.

• Returns to Capital: Results from a Randomized Experiment, with S. de Mel and C. Woodruff, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 123(4): 1329-72, 2008.

• Mental Health Patterns and Consequences: Results from Survey Data in Five Developing Countries, with J. Das, Q.-T. Do, and J. Friedman, World Bank Economic Review, 23(1), 31-55, 2009.

• Measuring Microenterprise Profits: Must We Ask How the Sausage Is Made?, with S. de Mel and C.Woodruff, Journal of Development Economics, 88(1): 19-31, 2009.

• Urban Water Supply in India: Status, Reform Options, and Possible Lessons, with I. Ray, Water Policy, forthcoming.

• Efficient Remittance Services for Development in the Pacific, with J. Gibson, G. Boe-Gibson, and H. Rohorua, Asia-Pacific Development Journal, 14(2):55-74, 2007.

• Who is coming from Vanuatu to New Zealand under the new Recognized Seasonal Employer (RSE) Program? with P.Garcia Martinez and L.A. Winters, Pacific Economic Bulletin 23(3):205-228, 2008.

• How Pro-Poor is the Selection of Seasonal Migrant Workers from Tonga Under New Zealand’s Recognized Seasonal Employer (RSE) Program? with J. Gibson and H. Rohorua, Pacific Economic Bulletin 23(3): 187-204, 2008.

• A Profile of the World's Young Developing Country Migrants, Population and Development Review, 34(1): 115-135 (2008).
  

• Mental Health Recovery and Economic Recovery after the Tsunami: High-Frequency Longitudinal Evidence from Sri Lanka with S. de Mel and C. Woodruff, Social Science and Medicine, 66: 582-95 (2008)

• Revisiting the Relationship between Mental Health and Poverty in Developing Countries: A Response to Corrigall, with J. Das, Q.-T. Do, J. Friedman, and K. Scott, Social Science and Medicine, 66(9): 2064-66 (2008).

• Which Youth Get to Make Human Capital Decisions? Results from Recent Surveys, Development Outreach (June 2007).

• Paper Walls Are Easier to Tear Down: Passport Costs and Legal Barriers to Emigration, World Development. 35(11): 2026-2039 (2007).

• Poverty Traps and Nonlinear Income Dynamics with Measurement Error and Individual Heterogeneity, with F. Antman, Journal of Development Studies, 43(6): 1057-1083 (August 2007).

• Using the Global Positioning System (GPS) in Household Surveys for Better Economics and Better Policy, with J. Gibson, World Bank Research Observer, 2007, 22(2): 217-41.

• Mental Health and Poverty in Developing Countries: Revisiting the Relationship, with J. Das, Q.-T. Do, J. Friedman, and K. Scott, Social Science and Medicine, 65(3): 467-80 (August 2007).

• Earnings Mobility and Measurement Error: A Pseudo-Panel Approach, with F. Antman, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 56(1): 125-162 (2007).

• Moving to Opportunity, Leaving Behind What? Evaluating the Initial Effects of a Migration Policy on Incomes and Poverty in a Source Country, with J. Gibson and S. Stillman, New Zealand Economic Papers, 41(2): 197-224 (2007).

• Migration and Education Inequality in Rural Mexico with H. Rapoport, Integration and Trade Journal/Revista Integración y Comercio, 27: 13-158 (2007).

• Network Effects and the dynamics of Migration and Inequality: Theory and Evidence from Mexico, with H. Rapoport, Journal of Development Economics, 84(1): 1-24 (2007).

• How cost elastic are remittances? Evidence from Tongan migrants in New Zealand, with J. Gibson and H. Rohorua, Pacific Economic Bulletin, 21(1): 112-128 (2006).

• Do Entry Costs Provide an Empirical Basis for Poverty Traps? Evidence from Mexican Microenterprises, with C. Woodruff, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 55(1): 3-42 (2006).

• The Consumer Response to the Mexican Peso Crisis, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 55(1): 139-72 (2006).

• Disentangling Age, Cohort and Time Effects in the Additive Model, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 68(4): 473-95 (2006).

• Precautionary Saving and Consumption Growth in Taiwan, China Economic Review, 17(1): 84-101 (2006).

• Measuring Inequality with Asset Indicators, Journal of Population Economics, 18(2): 229-260 (2005).

• The effects of migration on child health in Mexico, with N. Hildebrandt, Economia, 6(1): 257-89 (2005).

• Aggregate Shocks and Labor Market Responses: Evidence from Argentina’s Financial Crisis, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 52(4): 719-758 (2004).

• Asymptotic Theory for Heterogeneous Dynamic Pseudo-Panels, Journal of Econometrics, 120(2): 235-262 (2004).

• An Econometric Analysis of IBRD Creditworthiness, International Economic Journal, 18(4): 429-450 (2004).

• The Distributive Impact of Privatization in Latin America: An Overview of Evidence from Four Countries, with D. Mookherjee, Economia, 3(2): 161-218 (2003).

• How Do Households Cope with Aggregate Shocks? Evidence from the Mexican Peso Crisis, World Development, 31(7): 1179-1199 (2003).

• The Prudence of Mexican Consumers, Economía Mexicana, Nueva Época , 11(2): 393-407 (2002).

• Are tortillas a giffen good in Mexico?, Economics Bulletin , 15(1): 1-7 (2002).

• Estimation of AR(1) Models with Unequally-Spaced Pseudo-Panels, Econometrics Journal 2001, 4: 89- 108. Reprinted as pp. 372-91, B. Baltagi (ed.), Recent Developments in the Econometrics of Panel Data Volume II, Edward Elgar: Northampton, MA (2002).

• The Impact of Capital Controls on Growth Convergence, Journal of Economic Development 26(1):1-24 (2001).

• Econometric cost estimates for cellular telephony in the United States, with J. P. Small, Journal of Regulatory Economics , 12(2): 147-57 (1997).
  

• World Development Report 2007: Development and the Next Generation (core team member)

• Who are the Microenterprise Owners?: Evidence from Sri Lanka on Tokman v. de Soto with S. de Mel and C. Woodruff, in J. Lerner and A. Schoar (eds.) International Differences in Entrepreneurship, forthcoming
  
• Remittances in the Pacific, in Immigrants and their International Money Flows, S. Pozo (ed.), W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research: Kalamazoo, MI, pp. 99-121 (2007).
  
• The Impact of an Ex-Ante Job Offer Requirement on Labor Migration: The New Zealand-Tongan Experience, with J. Gibson, in International Migration, Economic Development and Policy, C. Ozden and M. Schiff (eds.), World Bank, Washington, DC, pp. 215-233 (2007).
  
• Paradox and Perception: Evidence from Four Latin American Countries, with D. Mookherjee, chapter 2 in Reality Check: The Distributional Impact of Privatization in Developing Countries, J. Nellis and N. Birdsall (eds.) Center for Global Development: Washington, D.C. (2005).
  
• Beyond Remittances: The effects of Migration on Mexican Households, in International Migration, Remittances and the Brain Drain, C. Ozden and M. Schiff (eds.) The World Bank: Washington D.C. (2005).
  
• Capitalization and privatization in Bolivia: An approximation to an evaluation, with G. Barja and M. Urquiola, chapter 4 in Reality Check: The Distributional Impact of Privatization in Developing Countries, J. Nellis and N. Birdsall (eds.) Center for Global Development, Washington DC. (2005).

• Review of "Poverty Traps" by S. Bowles, S. Durlauf and K. Hoff (eds.), Economic Development and Cultural Change, 55(4): 845-848 (July 2007).
  
• Comment on "Assessing Health Reform in Colombia: From Theory to Practice" by A. Gaviria et al., Economia, 7(1): 64-65 (Fall 2006).
  
• Review of "Indonesian Living Standards after the Financial Crisis" by J. Strauss et al., Journal of Economic Literature (September 2005).

• Youth, ICTs and Development, Global Information and Communication Technologies Working Paper (March 2007).

Working Papers

• Measuring Subjective Expectations in Developing Countries: A Critical Review and New Evidence with A. Delavande and X. Gine, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4824.
  
• Innovative Firms or Innovative Owners? Determinants of Innovation in Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises with S. de Mel and C. Woodruff, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4934..
  
• A Land of Milk and Honey with Streets Paved with Gold: Do Emigrants Have Over-optimistic Expectations About Incomes Abroad? with J. Gibson and S. Stillman, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No 4141 (March 2007).
  
• Can Migration reduce Educational Attainment? Evidence from Mexico, with H. Rapoport, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3952 (June 2006).

Other Papers

• The Impacts of Migration on Remaining Household Members: Omnibus Results from a Migration Lottery Program with J. Gibson and S. Stillman, January 2008.
  
• The Microeconomic Determinants of Emigration and Return Migration with J. Gibson, January 2009.
  
• "The Impact of Migration on Child Health: Experimental Evidence from a Migration Lottery Program", with J. Gibson and S. Stillman (March 2007).
  
• Buying Less, But Shopping More: Changes in Consumption Patterns during a Crisis with E. Schargrodsky, Bread Working Paper No 92 (February 2005).