David McKenzie
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 Science, the 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 on impact evaluations in a wide range of countries, covering microenterprise programs, improving management, facilitating migration, active labor market policy, and several other topics.
- 06/14/13 Friday links June 15: unpopular financial education, long-term impacts of CCTs, how to increase charitable giving, and more…
- 06/10/13 Long-term effects of a short-term boost to savings – are mental accounts the key to why more small businesses don’t take advantage of high returns?
- 06/06/13 Friday links June 7: Unconditional cash transfer results from India, horror stories of implementation, funding, and more…
- 06/02/13 Reading us through Google Reader or RSS – here’s what to do to continue doing so
- 05/31/13 Friday links May 31: Dictators in Vegas, Narcissism of the Small, Why charities shouldn’t evaluate, and more…
- 05/27/13 Doing Experiments with Socially Good but Privately Bad Treatments
- 05/23/13 Friday links: RD is a-OK, new evidence on microfinance and grants, RCTs vs qualitative results, and more…
- 05/10/13 May 10 Links: early education and skills, tips for being a good researcher, carrots vs sticks in formalization, and more…
- 05/06/13 The Illusion of Information Campaigns: Just because people don’t know about your policy, it doesn’t mean that an information campaign is needed
- 05/02/13 May 3 Links: Finding your “thing” as a researcher, programs for female self-employment that work, and more…
- 04/29/13 Enhanced Active Choice: Utilizing Behavioral Economics to Increase Program Take-up
- 04/25/13 Blog links April 26: Living on a Dollar a day the movie, raffles, cost-effective ways to raise test scores, and more…
- 04/18/13 Blog Links April 19: Over-generalization, framing financial literacy, fake resumes, and more…
- 04/15/13 Measuring International Mobility Through Where People Log In to Commonly Used Websites
- 04/05/13 Friday links April 5: spending your research time wisely? School uniforms, remittance prices, and more...
- 04/03/13 Q&A with Arun Agrawal, Editor of World Development Part II
- 04/01/13 Q&A with Arun Agrawal, Editor of World Development Part I
- 03/29/13 Weekly links March 29, 2013: job opportunities, CCTs, fishy p-values, and more…
- 03/27/13 RFID Bleg + Summer Opportunity if you know how to do this stuff
- 03/25/13 What Do Development Bloggers Discuss?
- 03/21/13 Weekly blog links March 21-22: moving back to poor areas, behavioral psychology, newsworthiness vs rigor, and more…
- 03/18/13 Evaluating after the barn-door has been left open: Evaluating Heifer’s Give-a-Goat or Give-a-Cow Programs
- 03/15/13 Friday blog links March 15: deworming, recycling and consumption, and more…
- 03/11/13 One-stop shops: Do they or don’t they increase business registration?
- 03/10/13 Weekend links: DC school vouchers, food aid, what to do after a conference, and more…
- probably a -1 effect
- Yes, please let us know when
- Thanks for the clarification
- Surveying small businesses
- Stata code for implementing this method
- Sorry I don't
- Re: private
- On suggestions for referees/authors
- Look for the second part of the post above
- Hi Jack,
- Email readers
- Conference on pre-analysis plans
- Another developing country example
- And a second example in Nepal
- Adaptive treatment designs