David McKenzie

Research Fellow

World Bank

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David McKenzie is a Lead Economist in the World Bank’s Development Research Group. Prior to joining the World Bank in 2005, he was assistant professor of Economics at Stanford University (2001-05). He received his B.Com(Hons)/B.A. from the University of Auckland, New Zealand in 1997 and his Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University in 2001. His specific areas of research interest include international migration, microenterprises,and the development of econometric methods useful for working with data from developing countries.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in July 2007.

His personal webpage is at: https://sites.google.com/site/decrgdmckenzie/

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8523
Evidence on Policies to Increase the Development Impacts of International Migration
David McKenzie, Dean Yang
published in: World Bank Research Observer, 2015, 30(2), 155-92
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8518
Testing the Importance of Search Frictions, Matching, and Reservation Prestige Through Randomized Experiments in Jordan
Matthew Groh, David McKenzie, Nour Shammout, Tara Vishwanath
published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 4:7
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8059
The Impact of Vocational Training for the Unemployed: Experimental Evidence from Turkey
Sarojini Hirshleifer, David McKenzie, Rita K. Almeida, Cristobal Ridao-Cano
published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (579), 2115 - 1246
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7402
A Helping Hand or the Long Arm of the Law? Experimental Evidence on What Governments Can Do to Formalize Firms
Gustavo Henrique de Andrade, Miriam Bruhn, David McKenzie
published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2016, 30 (1), 24-54
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7401
Eliciting Illegal Migration Rates through List Randomization
David McKenzie, Melissa Siegel
published in: Migration Studies, 2013, 1(3): 276-91
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6896
Business Training and Female Enterprise Start-Up, Growth, and Dynamics: Experimental Evidence from Sri Lanka
Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie, Christopher Woodruff
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2014, 106: 199-210
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6895
What Are We Learning from Business Training and Entrepreneurship Evaluations around the Developing World?
David McKenzie, Christopher Woodruff
revised version published in: World Bank Research Observer, 2014, 29(1), 48-82
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6871
Miserable Migrants? Natural Experiment Evidence on International Migration and Objective and Subjective Well-Being
Steven Stillman, John Gibson, David McKenzie, Halahingano Rohorua
published in: World Development, 2015, 65, 79-93
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6498
Distortions in the International Migrant Labor Market: Evidence from Filipino Migration and Wage Responses to Destination Country Economic Shocks
David McKenzie, Caroline Theoharides, Dean Yang
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2014, 6(2), 49-75.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6442
The Demand for, and Consequences of, Formalization among Informal Firms in Sri Lanka
Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie, Christopher Woodruff
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2013, 5 (2), 122-50
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