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. 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
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