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David McKenzie

Lead Economist

DAVID MCKENZIE is a Lead Economist in the Development Research Group, Finance and Private Sector Development Unit. He received his B.Com.(Hons)/B.A. from the University of Auckland, New Zealand and his Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University. Prior to joining the World Bank, he spent four years as an assistant professor of Economics at Stanford University. His main research is on migration, microenterprises, and methodology for use with developing country data. He has published over 80 articles in journals such as Quarterly Journal of Economics, Science, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of the European Economic Association, American Economic Journal: Applied Micro, Journal of Econometrics, and all leading development journals. He is currently on the editorial boards of the Journal of Development Economics, World Bank Economic Review, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fiscal Studies and Migration Studies.

Contact information:Email: David McKenzie, c/o research@worldbank.org

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World Bank working papers and publications

1 .Eliciting illegal migration rates through list randomization
2 .Using administrative data to evaluate municipal reforms : an evaluation of the impact of Minas Facil Expresso
3 .Learning from the experiments that never happened : lessons from trying to conduct randomized evaluations of matching grant programs in Africa
4 .What are we learning from business training and entrepreneurship evaluations around the developing world ?
5 .Who you train matters : identifying complementary effects of financial education on migrant households
6 .Business training and female enterprise start-up, growth, and dynamics : experimental evidence from Sri Lanka
7 .Soft skills or hard cash ? the impact of training and wage subsidy programs on female youth employment in Jordan
8 .The impact of financial literacy training for migrants
9 .Distortions in the international migrant labor market :evidence from Filipino migration and wage responses to destination country economic shocks
10 .The demand for, and consequences of, formalization among informal firms in Sri Lanka
11 .The impact of economics blogs
12 .When is capital enough to get female enterprises growing ? evidence from a randomized experiment in Ghana
13 .Eight questions about brain drain
14 .Beyond baseline and follow-up : the case for more t in experiments
15 .How can we learn whether firm policies are working in africa ? challenges (and solutions?) for experiments and structural models
16 .Does management matter ? evidence from India
17 .Using repeated cross-sections to explore movements in and out of poverty
18 .The development impact of a best practice seasonal worker policy
19 .Eliciting probabilistic expectations with visual aids in developing countries : how sensitive are answers to variations in elicitation design ?
20 .Experimental approaches in migration studies
21 .The World Bank research observer (25) 2
22 .The economic consequences of "brain drain" of the best and brightest: microeconomic evidence from five countries
23 .Accounting for selectivity and duration-dependent heterogeneity when estimating the impact of emigration on incomes and poverty in sending areas
24 .Enterprise recovery following natural disasters
25 .The remitting patterns of African migrants in the OECD
26 .Remittances and the brain drain revisited : the microdata show that more educated migrants remit more
27 .The impacts of international migration on remaining household members : omnibus results from a migration lottery program
28 .The microeconomic determinants of emigration and return migration of the best and brightest : evidence from the Pacific
29 .Impact assessments in finance and private sector development : what have we learned and what should we learn ?
30 .Innovative firms or innovative owners ? determinants of innovation in micro, small, and medium enterprises
31 .Measuring subjective expectations in developing Countries : a critical review and new evidence
32 .The World Bank economic review 23 (1)
33 .Are women more credit constrained ? experimental evidence on gender and microenterprise returns
34 .In pursuit of balance : randomization in practice in development field experiments
35 .How pro-poor is the selection of seasonal migrant workers from Tonga under New Zealand's recognized seasonal employer program ?
36 .Who is coming from Vanuatu to New Zealand under the new recognized Seasonal employer program ?
37 .Who are the microenterprise owners ? Evidence from Sri Lanka on Tokman v. de Soto
38 .Mental health patterns and consequences : results from survey data in five developing countries
39 .The World Bank economic review 22 (3)
40 .Does it pay firms to register for taxes ? the impact of formality on firm profitability
41 .Migration, remittances, poverty, and human capital : conceptual and empirical challenges
42 .Measuring microenterprise profits : don't ask how the sausage is made
43 .Returns to capital in microenterprises : evidence from a field experiment
44 .Using the global positioning system in household surveys for better economics and better policy
45 .A land of milk and honey with streets paved with gold : do emigrants have over-optimistic expectations about incomes abroad ?
46 .Migration and mental health : evidence from a natural experiment
47 .Self-selection patterns in Mexico-U.S. migration : the role of migration networks
48 .The World Bank research observer 22 (2)
49 .World development report 2007 : development and the next generation
50 .World development report 2007 : development and the next generation
51 .Informe sobre el desarrollo mundial : el desarrollo y la nueva generacion
52 .World development report 2007 : development and the next generation
53 .World development report 2007 : development and the next generation
54 .World development report 2007 : development and the next generation
55 .World development report 2007 : development and the next generation
56 .Can migration reduce educational attainment ? Evidence from Mexico
57 .How important is selection ? Experimental versus non-experimental measures of the income gains from migration
58 .The effects of migration on child health in Mexico
59 .An econometric analysis of IBRD creditworthiness




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