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.
- Weekly links June 15: advice, humanitarian assistance RCTs, power calcs gone wrong, the CDD debate, and more...
- Writing a Papers and Proceedings Paper
- Weekly links June 8: are negative income taxes toxic, marshmallows and SES, psychometric credit, p-value hate, and more...
- Weekly links June 1: moral quandaries, plunging response rates, business aspirations, an attempt to revive blogging, and more...
- Five small things I’ve learned recently
- Weekly links May 25: tips for saying no, three stories on the media and development, cricket as a development policy? And more...
- Weekly links May 18: P&P highlights galore, basic management vs grand strategy, can you SMS your way to social linkages, and more...
- Weekly links May 11: more on shift-share instruments, updated balance tables, measuring height with photos, and more...
- Having an impact as a development economist outside of a research university: interview with Evan Borkum of Mathematica
- Weekly links May 4: has your study been abducted? Noisy risk preferences, why we should be cautious extrapolating climate change and growth estimates, and more...
- Rethinking identification under the Bartik Shift-Share Instrument
- Weekly Links April 27: improving water conservation, acceptance rates drop below 3%, using pre-analysis plans for observational data, and more...
- Weekly links April 20: Swifter justice, swifter coding, better ethics, cash transfers, and more
- Weekly links April 13: militant randomistas, show them the germs, should your next paper not be a paper? and more...
- Weekly links April 7: registration becomes compulsory, lessons from reality tv and the Black Panther, positively deviant schools, and more...
- Using a PhD in development economics outside of academia: interviews with Alan de Brauw and Bailey Klinger
- Weekly links March 23: recall revisited, Imbens critiques the Cartwright-Deaton RCT critiques, a new source for learning causal inference, and more...
- The State of Development Journals 2018: Quality, Acceptance Rates, Review Times, and Representation
- Weekly links March 16: write more productively or fake it, null power, great figures, and more...
- Having an impact as a development economist outside of a research university: Interview with Alix Zwane
- Weekly links March 9: export super-stars, poor stats on poor women, psychosocial interventions for refugees, psychologists up their game, and more...
- How can machine learning and artificial intelligence be used in development interventions and impact evaluations?
- Weekly links March 2: quality onions, don’t just try to prove something you already know, jobs cost a lot to create, and more...
- Weekly links February 23: tell better stories, hot days = lower profits, women need more customers, and more...
- The Toyota way or Entropy? What did we find when we went back 8-9 years after improving management in Indian factories?
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