David McKenzie

DAVID MCKENZIE is a Lead Economist in the Finance and Private Sector Development Unit of the Development Research Group. He received his B.Com.(Hons)/B.A. from the University of Auckland, New Zealand in 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 50 articles in journals such as Quarterly Journal of Economics, 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 has worked or is currently working on impact evaluations in Sri Lanka, Ghana, Mexico, India, Tonga, Vanuatu, the Philippines, Turkey, Jordan, Egypt and Brazil on policies related to enterprise growth, migration, and job creation. Research papers can be found at: http://econ.worldbank.org/staff/dmckenzie