David McKenzie

Research Fellow

World Bank

dmckenzie@worldbank.org

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Research Interests

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. 5730

Eight Questions about Brain Drain

John Gibson, David McKenzie

published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2011, 25 (3), 107-128

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5232

Natural Experiment Evidence on the Effect of Migration on Blood Pressure and Hypertension

John Gibson, Steven Stillman, David McKenzie, Halahingano Rohorua

published in: Health Economics, 2013, 22 (6), 655-672

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5125

Experimental Approaches in Migration Studies

David McKenzie, Dean Yang

published in: Carlos Vargas-Silva (ed.), Handbook of Research Methods in Migration, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012, 249-269

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5124

The Economic Consequences of "Brain Drain" of the Best and Brightest: Microeconomic Evidence from Five Countries

John Gibson, David McKenzie

published in: Economic Journal, 2012, 122 (560), 339 - 375

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4534

Remittances and the Brain Drain Revisited: The Microdata Show That More Educated Migrants Remit More

Albert Bollard, David McKenzie, Melanie Morten, Hillel Rapoport

published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2011, 25 (1), 132 - 156

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4375

The Impacts of International Migration on Remaining Household Members: Omnibus Results from a Migration Lottery Program

John Gibson, David McKenzie, Steven Stillman

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011, 93 (4), 1297-1318

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3962

Innovative Firms or Innovative Owners? Determinants of Innovation in Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises

Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie, Christopher Woodruff

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3926

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

John Gibson, David McKenzie

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2011, 95 (1), 18-29

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3743

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

Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie, Christopher Woodruff

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2009, 1(3), 1-32

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3511

Who Are the Microenterprise Owners? Evidence from Sri Lanka on Tokman v. de Soto

Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie, Christopher Woodruff

published in: Josh Lerner and Antoinette Schoar (eds.) International Differences in Entrepreneurship, NBER, 2010

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3179

Does It Pay Firms to Register for Taxes? The Impact of Formality on Firm Profitability

David McKenzie, Yaye Seynabou Sakho

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2010, 91(1), 15-24

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3173

Surveying Migrant Households: A Comparison of Census-Based, Snowball, and Intercept Point Surveys

David McKenzie, Johan Mistiaen

published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2009, 172 (2), 339-360

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2948

A Profile of the World's Young Developing Country Migrants

David McKenzie

published as 'A Profile of the World's Young Developing Country International Migrants' in: Population and Development Review, 2008, 34 (1), 115 - 135

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2934

Returns to Capital in Microenterprises: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie, Christopher Woodruff

published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2008, 123 (4), 1329-1372

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2788

A Land of Milk and Honey with Streets Paved with Gold: Do Emigrants Have Over-Optimistic Expectations about Incomes Abroad?

David McKenzie, John Gibson, Steven Stillman

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2013, 102, 116 - 127

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2087

How Important Is Selection? Experimental vs. Non-Experimental Measures of the Income Gains from Migration

David McKenzie, John Gibson, Steven Stillman

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2010, 8(4), 913-945