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David McKenzie

David McKenzie

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
86
Citations
34476
World Ranking
208
National Ranking
152

Overview

David McKenzie is affiliated with the World Bank in the United States. Their research spans several areas within social sciences and economics, focusing on migration, labor dynamics, business practices, and financial decision-making in developing countries.

Their recent scholarly contributions include the following publications:

  • Remote-learning, time-use, and mental health of Ecuadorian high-school students during the COVID-19 quarantine (2020), published in World Development
  • Small business training to improve management practices in developing countries: re-assessing the evidence for 'training doesn't work' (2021), published in Oxford Review of Economic Policy
  • Growing Markets through Business Training for Female Entrepreneurs: A Market-Level Randomized Experiment in Kenya (2021), published in American Economic Journal Applied Economics
  • Aspirations and financial decisions: Experimental evidence from the Philippines (2022), published in Journal of Development Economics
  • Job Training and Job Search Assistance Policies in Developing Countries (2024), published in The Journal of Economic Perspectives

Frequent co-authors in their collaborative work include:

  • Leonardo Iacovone (12 joint publications)
  • Cátia Batista (8 joint publications)
  • Mona Mensmann (6 joint publications)
  • Dean Yang (6 joint publications)
  • Tijan L. Bah (5 joint publications)

David McKenzie's research has appeared regularly in prominent publication venues such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal (9 publications)
  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials (7 publications)
  • Journal of Development Economics (3 publications)
  • Economic Development and Cultural Change (3 publications)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (3 publications)

Their contributions to book publications are extensive, with a significant number released through World Bank publishing platforms. Notable book titles include:

  • Small Business Training to Improve Management Practices in Developing Countries: Reassessing the Evidence for "Training Doesn'T Work" (2020)
  • Remote-Learning, Time-Use, and Mental Health of Ecuadorian High-School Students during the COVID-19 Quarantine (2020)
  • Testing Classic Theories of Migration in the Lab (2021)
  • Job Training and Job Search Assistance Policies in Developing Countries (2023)
  • Aspirations and Financial Decisions: Experimental Evidence from the Philippines (2021)
  • Long-Term and Lasting Impacts of Personal Initiative Training on Entrepreneurial Success (2024)
  • Training Microentrepreneurs over Zoom: Experimental Evidence from Mexico (2023)

The main fields of study for McKenzie's work include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance
  • Business, Management and Accounting

Within these fields, key subfields addressed are:

  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Accounting
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Management of Technology and Innovation

David McKenzie's research topics cover a range of development and economic issues, including:

  • Migration and Labor Dynamics
  • Corporate Finance and Governance
  • Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
  • Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
  • Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
  • Taxation and Compliance Studies

Best Publications

  • Returns to Capital in Microenterprises: Evidence from a Field Experiment

    Suresh de Mel;David McKenzie;Christopher Woodruff

  • Does Management Matter? Evidence from India

    Nicholas Bloom;Benn Eifert;Aprajit Mahajan;David McKenzie

  • Returns to Capital in Microenterprises: Evidence from a Field Experiment

    Suresh de Mel;David McKenzie;Christopher Woodruff

  • Returns to Capital in Microenterprises: Evidence from a Field Experiment

    Suresh de Mel;David J. McKenzie;David J. McKenzie;Christopher M. Woodruff

  • Network effects and the dynamics of migration and inequality: Theory and evidence from Mexico

    David Mckenzie;Hillel Rapoport

  • In Pursuit of Balance: Randomization in Practice in Development Field Experiments

    Miriam Bruhn;David McKenzie

  • Can migration reduce educational attainment ? Evidence from Mexico

    David McKenzie;Hillel Rapoport

  • Beyond Baseline and Follow-up : The Case for More T in Experiments

    David McKenzie

  • Can migration reduce educational attainment? Evidence from Mexico

    David McKenzie;Hillel Rapoport;Hillel Rapoport;Hillel Rapoport

  • Measuring inequality with asset indicators

    David J. McKenzie

  • How Important is Selection? Experimental VS. Non-Experimental Measures of the Income Gains from Migration

    David McKenzie;John Gibson;Steven Stillman

  • Self-Selection Patterns in Mexico-U.S. Migration: The Role of Migration Networks

    David McKenzie;Hillel Rapoport

  • The effects of migration on child health in Mexico

    Nicole Hildebrandt;David McKenzie

  • What are we learning from business training and entrepreneurship evaluations around the developing world

    David J. McKenzie;Christopher Woodruff

  • Are Women More Credit Constrained? Experimental Evidence on Gender and Microenterprise Returns

    Suresh de Mel;David McKenzie;Christopher Woodruff

  • Experimental evidence on returns to capital and access to finance in Mexico

    David McKenzie;Christopher Woodruff

  • When is capital enough to get female microenterprises growing? Evidence from a randomized experiment in Ghana

    Marcel Fafchamps;David McKenzie;Simon R. Quinn;Christopher Woodruff

  • Measuring subjective expectations in developing countries: A critical review and new evidence

    Adeline Delavande;Xavier Giné;David McKenzie

  • What are we learning from business training and entrepreneurship evaluations around the developing world

    David J. Mckenzie;Christopher M. Woodruff

  • The demand for, and consequences of, formalization among informal firms in Sri Lanka

    Suresh de Mel;David McKenzie;Christopher Woodruff

  • Business training and female enterprise start-up, growth, and dynamics: experimental evidence from Sri Lanka

    Suresh de Mel;David McKenzie;Christopher Woodruff

  • Measuring microenterprise profits: Must we ask how the sausage is made?☆

    Suresh De Mel;David J. McKenzie;Christopher M. Woodruff

  • The Microeconomic Determinants of Emigration and Return Migration of the Best and Brightest : Evidence from the Pacific

    John Gibson;David McKenzie

  • Business Training and Female Enterprise Start-up, Growth, and Dynamics : Experimental Evidence from Sri Lanka

    Suresh De Mel;David McKenzie;Christopher M. Woodruff

  • World development report 2007 : development and the next generation

    Mattias K. A. Lundberg;David McKenzie;Varun Gauri;Mamta Murthi

  • The Effects of Migration on Child Health in Mexico

    David J. McKenzie;David J. McKenzie;Nicole Hildebrandt

Frequent Co-Authors

John Gibson
John Gibson University of Waikato
Christopher Woodruff
Christopher Woodruff University of Oxford
Steven Stillman
Steven Stillman Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Dean Yang
Dean Yang University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Nicholas Bloom
Nicholas Bloom Stanford University
Hillel Rapoport
Hillel Rapoport Paris School of Economics
Aart Kraay
Aart Kraay World Bank
Marcel Fafchamps
Marcel Fafchamps Stanford University
Jishnu Das
Jishnu Das Georgetown University
Michael Frese
Michael Frese Asia School of Business

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