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David Mckenzie

Global rank #199 99%

Institution: World Bank Group

Primary Field: Development (weighted toward more recent publications)

Homepage: https://sites.google.com/site/decrgdmckenzie/home

First Publication: 2003

Most Recent: 2025

RePEc ID: pmc29 ↗

Publication Scores

Scores use coauthorship adjustment: α/n credit per paper, where n = number of authors. α = 2.01: calibrated so average adjusted count equals average raw count (a zero-sum adjustment).

Period S (4x) A (2x) B (1x) C (½x) Total
Last 5 Years 2.35 6.03 4.42 0.00 26.88
Last 10 Years 4.36 14.24 10.29 0.00 57.21
All Time 7.27 32.51 35.83 0.00 131.28

Publication Statistics

Raw Publications 86
Coauthorship-Adjusted Count 78.62

Publications (86)

Year Article Journal Tier Authors
2025 Long-Term and Lasting Impacts of Personal Initiative Training on Entrepreneurial Success American Economic Review: Insights A 6
2025 Bayesian Impact Evaluation With Informative Priors: An Application to a Colombian Management and Export Improvement Program Econometrica S 3
2024 Training microentrepreneurs over Zoom: Experimental evidence from Mexico Journal of Development Economics A 4
2023 Can information and alternatives to irregular migration reduce “backway” migration from The Gambia? Journal of Development Economics A 4
2023 Testing classic theories of migration in the lab Journal of International Economics A 2
2023 How should the government bring small firms into the formal system? Experimental evidence from Malawi Journal of Development Economics A 3
2023 Capacity building as a route to export market expansion: A six-country experiment in the Western Balkans Journal of International Economics A 3
2023 Estimating the Demand for Business Training: Evidence from Jamaica Economic Development & Cultural Change B 3
2023 Foreword by the Guest Editors Economic Development & Cultural Change B 3
2022 Improving Management with Individual and Group-Based Consulting: Results from a Randomized Experiment in Colombia Review of Economic Studies S 3
2022 Shortening Supply Chains: Experimental Evidence from Fruit and Vegetable Vendors in Bogota Economic Development & Cultural Change B 2
2022 Aspirations and financial decisions: Experimental evidence from the Philippines Journal of Development Economics A 3
2022 Improving Business Practices and the Boundary of the Entrepreneur: A Randomized Experiment Comparing Training, Consulting, Insourcing, and Outsourcing Journal of Political Economy S 2
2021 Can Government Intervention Make Firms More Investment Ready? A Randomized Experiment in the Western Balkans Review of Economics and Statistics A 3
2021 Estimating Treatment Effects with Big Data When Take-up is Low: An Application to Financial Education World Bank Economic Review B 3
2021 Growing Markets through Business Training for Female Entrepreneurs: A Market-Level Randomized Experiment in Kenya American Economic Journal: Applied Economics A 2
2021 Remote-learning, time-use, and mental health of Ecuadorian high-school students during the COVID-19 quarantine World Development B 5
2021 Self-employment and migration World Development B 2
2021 Small business training to improve management practices in developing countries: re-assessing the evidence for ‘training doesn’t work’ Oxford Review of Economic Policy C 1
2020 Do Management Interventions Last? Evidence from India American Economic Journal: Applied Economics A 4
2020 Reprint of: The long-term impact of international migration on economic decision-making: Evidence from a migration lottery and lab-in-the-field experiments Journal of Development Economics A 4
2020 If it needs a power calculation, does it matter for poverty reduction? World Development B 1
2019 Can Grants to Consortia Spur Innovation and Science-Industry Collaboration? Regression- Discontinuity Evidence from Poland World Bank Economic Review B 2
2019 The long-term impact of international migration on economic decision-making: Evidence from a migration lottery and lab-in-the-field experiments Journal of Development Economics A 4
2019 Labor Drops: Experimental Evidence on the Return to Additional Labor in Microenterprises American Economic Journal: Applied Economics A 3
2019 Predicting entrepreneurial success is hard: Evidence from a business plan competition in Nigeria Journal of Development Economics A 2
2019 Small Firm Death in Developing Countries Review of Economics and Statistics A 2
2018 The Long-term Impacts of International Migration: Evidence from a Lottery World Bank Economic Review B 4
2018 Does inducing informal firms to formalize make sense? Experimental evidence from Benin Journal of Public Economics A 4
2018 Can Business Owners Form Accurate Counterfactuals? Eliciting Treatment and Control Beliefs About Their Outcomes in the Alternative Treatment Status Journal of Business & Economic Statistics A 1
2017 Identifying and Spurring High-Growth Entrepreneurship: Experimental Evidence from a Business Plan Competition American Economic Review S 1
2017 What Is Considered Development Economics? Commonalities and Differences in University Courses around the Developing World World Bank Economic Review B 2
2016 Unilateral Facilitation Does Not Raise International Labor Migration from the Philippines Economic Development & Cultural Change B 3
2016 A Helping Hand or the Long Arm of the Law? Experimental Evidence on What Governments Can Do to Formalize Firms World Bank Economic Review B 3
2016 Macroinsurance for microenterprises: A randomized experiment in post-revolution Egypt Journal of Development Economics A 2
2016 Do Wage Subsidies Provide a Stepping-Stone to Employment for Recent College Graduates? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Jordan Review of Economics and Statistics A 4
2015 Directing remittances to education with soft and hard commitments: Evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment and new product take-up among Filipino migrants in Rome Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 5
2015 Miserable Migrants? Natural Experiment Evidence on International Migration and Objective and Subjective Well-Being World Development B 4
2015 Reducing Information Asymmetries in the Youth Labor Market of Jordan with Psychometrics and Skill Based Tests World Bank Economic Review B 3
2014 The minimal impact of a large-scale financial education program in Mexico City Journal of Development Economics A 3
2014 Using repeated cross-sections to explore movements into and out of poverty Journal of Development Economics A 4
2014 Microenterprise growth and the flypaper effect: Evidence from a randomized experiment in Ghana Journal of Development Economics A 4
2014 The Impact of Financial Literacy Training for Migrants World Bank Economic Review B 3
2014 The Development Impact of a Best Practice Seasonal Worker Policy Review of Economics and Statistics A 2
2014 Distortions in the International Migrant Labor Market: Evidence from Filipino Migration and Wage Responses to Destination Country Economic Shocks American Economic Journal: Applied Economics A 3
2014 Business training and female enterprise start-up, growth, and dynamics: Experimental evidence from Sri Lanka Journal of Development Economics A 3
2014 Who you train matters: Identifying combined effects of financial education on migrant households Journal of Development Economics A 3
2014 Quantifying Some of the Impacts of Economics Blogs Economic Development & Cultural Change B 2
2013 Does Management Matter? Evidence from India Quarterly Journal of Economics S 5
2013 A land of milk and honey with streets paved with gold: Do emigrants have over-optimistic expectations about incomes abroad? Journal of Development Economics A 3
2013 Accounting for Selectivity and Duration-Dependent Heterogeneity When Estimating the Impact of Emigration on Incomes and Poverty in Sending Areas Economic Development & Cultural Change B 3
2013 NATURAL EXPERIMENT EVIDENCE ON THE EFFECT OF MIGRATION ON BLOOD PRESSURE AND HYPERTENSION Health Economics B 4
2013 The Demand for, and Consequences of, Formalization among Informal Firms in Sri Lanka American Economic Journal: Applied Economics A 3
2012 Using PDA consistency checks to increase the precision of profits and sales measurement in panels Journal of Development Economics A 4
2012 THE IMPACT OF IMMIGRATION ON CHILD HEALTH: EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE FROM A MIGRATION LOTTERY PROGRAM Economic Inquiry C 3
2012 Beyond baseline and follow-up: The case for more T in experiments Journal of Development Economics A 1
2011 Remittances and the Brain Drain Revisited: The Microdata Show That More Educated Migrants Remit More World Bank Economic Review B 4
2011 Measuring subjective expectations in developing countries: A critical review and new evidence Journal of Development Economics A 3
2011 Eliciting probabilistic expectations with visual aids in developing countries: how sensitive are answers to variations in elicitation design? Journal of Applied Econometrics B 3
2011 The microeconomic determinants of emigration and return migration of the best and brightest: Evidence from the Pacific Journal of Development Economics A 2
2011 What happens to diet and child health when migration splits households? Evidence from a migration lottery program Food Policy B 3
2011 The Impacts of International Migration on Remaining Household Members: Omnibus Results from a Migration Lottery Program Review of Economics and Statistics A 3
2011 Can migration reduce educational attainment? Evidence from Mexico Journal of Population Economics B 2
2010 Why Do Firms in Developing Countries Have Low Productivity? American Economic Review S 4
2010 Wage Subsidies for Microenterprises American Economic Review S 3
2010 Does it pay firms to register for taxes? The impact of formality on firm profitability Journal of Development Economics A 2
2010 Self-Selection Patterns in Mexico-U.S. Migration: The Role of Migration Networks Review of Economics and Statistics A 2
2009 In Pursuit of Balance: Randomization in Practice in Development Field Experiments American Economic Journal: Applied Economics A 2
2009 Measuring microenterprise profits: Must we ask how the sausage is made? Journal of Development Economics A 3
2009 Are Women More Credit Constrained? Experimental Evidence on Gender and Microenterprise Returns American Economic Journal: Applied Economics A 3
2009 Migration and mental health: Evidence from a natural experiment Journal of Health Economics B 3
2009 Returns to Capital in Microenterprises: Evidence from a Field Experiment Quarterly Journal of Economics S 3
2008 Mental Health Patterns and Consequences: Results from Survey Data in Five Developing Countries World Bank Economic Review B 4
2008 Returns to Capital in Microenterprises: Evidence from a Field Experiment Quarterly Journal of Economics S 3
2008 Experimental Evidence on Returns to Capital and Access to Finance in Mexico World Bank Economic Review B 2
2007 Earnings Mobility and Measurement Error: A Pseudo-Panel Approach Economic Development & Cultural Change B 2
2007 Network effects and the dynamics of migration and inequality: Theory and evidence from Mexico Journal of Development Economics A 2
2007 Paper Walls Are Easier to Tear Down: Passport Costs and Legal Barriers to Emigration World Development B 1
2007 Book Review Economic Development & Cultural Change B 1
2006 Disentangling Age, Cohort and Time Effects in the Additive Model* Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics B 1
2006 The Consumer Response to the Mexican Peso Crisis Economic Development & Cultural Change B 1
2006 Do Entry Costs Provide an Empirical Basis for Poverty Traps? Evidence from Mexican Microenterprises Economic Development & Cultural Change B 2
2005 Measuring inequality with asset indicators Journal of Population Economics B 1
2004 Asymptotic theory for heterogeneous dynamic pseudo-panels Journal of Econometrics A 1
2004 Aggregate Shocks and Urban Labor Market Responses: Evidence from Argentina's Financial Crisis Economic Development & Cultural Change B 1
2003 How do Households Cope with Aggregate Shocks? Evidence from the Mexican Peso Crisis World Development B 1