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 100 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.
- Six Questions with Chris Udry
- Weekly links September 15: the definitive what we know on Progresa, ethics of cash, a new approach to teaching economics, and more…
- Weekly links September 8: career advice, measuring empowerment, is anyone reading, lumpy cash, and more…
- Is it possible to re-interview participants in a survey conducted by someone else?
- Monthly links for August: What did you miss while we were on summer break?
- 手机如何有助于解决发展中国家的企业规模小的问题——一个全新答案
- Weekly links July 28: overpaid teachers? Should we use p=0.005? beyond mean impacts, facilitating investment in Ethiopia, and more…
- A new answer to why developing country firms are so small, and how cellphones solve this problem
- Una nueva respuesta a por qué las empresas de los países en desarrollo son tan pequeñas, y cómo los teléfonos móviles solucionan este problema
- La téléphonie mobile peut favoriser la croissance des entreprises des pays en développement
- إجابة جديدة عن أسباب صغر حجم الشركات في البلدان النامية وكيف تحل الهواتف المحمولة هذه المشكلة
- Weekly links July 21: a 1930s RCT revisited, brain development in poor infants, Indonesian status cards, and more…
- What does a game-theoretic model with belief-dependent preferences teach us about how to randomize?
- Weekly links July 7: Making Jakarta Traffic Worse, Patient Kids and Hungry Judges, Competing for Brides by Pushing up Home Prices, and More…
- Weekly links June 30: 7th grade development economics, the beginning at the end approach, stuff that happened a long time ago still impacts today, and more…
- Should we require balance t-tests of baseline observables in randomized experiments?
- Weekly links June 23: VoxDev launches, uncountable Nigerians, a challenge to prospect theory, and more…
- Weekly links June 16: why women earn less, teaching fintech, now class size doesn’t matter, and more…
- Weekly links June 9: the dangers of out-dangering, debating how to provide health care for the poor, fighting corruption, and more…
- Weekly links June 2: do you need to correct your p-values for all the tests you run in your life?, nimble RCTs, the elusive entrepreneur, and more…
- Weekly links May 26: the Chetty production function, collect priors before you work, small samples bring trouble, and more…
- Weekly links May 19: another list experiment, P&P highlights, government nudges, and more…
- Building Grit in the Classroom and Measuring Changes in it
- Weekly links May 12: the ‘stans, how publishing might hurt you, list experiment discussion, and more…
- Weekly links May 5: an econometrics bonanza, charter schools, Chinese inequality, and more…
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