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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现说cussion Paper No. 16296
Can Information and Alternatives to Irregular Migration Reduce "Backway" Migration from The Gambia?
Tijan L. Bah,Catia Batista,Flore Gubert,David McKenzie
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2023, 165, 103153.
现说cussion Paper No. 14717
Testing Classic Theories of Migration in the Lab
Catia Batista,David McKenzie
现说cussion Paper No. 14337
How Has COVID-19 Affected the Intention to Migrate via the Backway to Europe and to a Neighboring African Country? Survey Evidence and a Salience Experiment in the Gambia
Tijan L. Bah,Catia Batista,Flore Gubert,David McKenzie
published online as 'COVID-19 and Changes in Intentions to Migrate from The Gambia' in:Journal of African Economies, 27 December 2022
现说cussion Paper No. 12624
Self-Employment and Migration
Samuele Giambra,David McKenzie
现说cussion Paper No. 10655
How Effective Are Active Labor Market Policies in Developing Countries? A Critical Review of Recent Evidence
David McKenzie
published in: World Bank Research Observer, 2017, 32(2), 127-54
现说cussion Paper No. 10615
Growing Markets through Business Training for Female Entrepreneurs: A Market-Level Randomized Experiment in Kenya
David McKenzie, Olga Susana Puerto
现说cussion Paper No. 10110
The Long-Term Impact of International Migration on Economic Decision-Making: Evidence from a Migration Lottery and Lab-in-the-Field Experiments
John Gibson,David McKenzie, Halahingano Rohorua,史蒂文·斯蒂尔曼
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2019, 138, 99-115
现说cussion Paper No. 9492
The Long-Term Impacts of International Migration: Evidence from a Lottery
John Gibson,David McKenzie, Halahingano Rohorua,史蒂文·斯蒂尔曼
published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2018, 32(1), 127-47
现说cussion Paper No. 9487
The Demand for, and Impact of, Youth Internships: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Yemen
David McKenzie,Nabila Assaf, Ana Paula Cusolito
published in: IZA Journal of Labor and Development, 5:1, 2016
现说cussion 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
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