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@dmckenzie001
dmckenzie@worldbank.orgDavid McKenzie is a Lead Economist in the World Bank’s Development Research Group. 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 work on migration includes evaluating the development impacts of permanent and seasonal worker programmes in the Pacific, financial education programmes for migrants, work on Mexican migrant self-selection, efforts to facilitate migration in the Philippines, and methodological work on sampling and surveying migrants. He has published more than 100 articles and is currently on the editorial boards of the Journal of Development Economics, the World Bank Economic Review, and Migration Studies. He is also a co-founder and regular contributor to the Development Impact blog.
Posts by David McKenzie
Cash transfers and adult labour outcomes in developing countries
The basic economic model of labour supply predicts that when an adult receives an unexpected cash windfall they should work less and earn less. This underlies concerns that cash transfers will undermi...
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Sarah Baird David McKenzie Berk Özler 
07 December, 2018
- Articles
Assessing the effectiveness of active labour market programmes in developing countries
Job growth is a key policy concern across developing countries and there are been an increased interest in the role of active labour market programmes that provide vocational training to job-seekers, ...
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David McKenzie
- 14 August, 2017
- Perspectives
Making good management stick: Evidence from India
A long-standing question in social science is to what extent differences in management cause differences in firm performance. To investigate this, researchers ran a management field experiment on larg...
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Aprajit Mahajan David McKenzie John Roberts
- 01 December, 2010
- IGC Research on India