David McKenzie
@dmckenzie001
World Bank researcher focusing on small businesses and migration & impact evaluation methods, Development Impact blogger, ...
Now out in the JDE, a short paper on training microentrepreneurs in Mexico and Guatemala by Zoom (joint with @PeterDeffebach, @elwyndavies & @leoiacovone). Free for the next 50 days at sciencedirect.com/science/articl… 1/8
Thoughtful blog post by @dmckenzie001 @wb_research on my book on the centrality of better state capacity for "Accelerating India's Development" and the parallels with the "abundance" framework of @ezraklein and @DKThomp in the US context.
The similarities between Abundance & @karthik_econ's Accelerating India's Development; the need for tinkering, but also for stopping dumb polices - today's blog post is my attempt to draw out common themes and lessons blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…
The similarities between Abundance & @karthik_econ's Accelerating India's Development; the need for tinkering, but also for stopping dumb polices - today's blog post is my attempt to draw out common themes and lessons blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…
Mean Reversion in RCTs: It may matter for targeting… @BerkOzler12 summarizes a new working paper that gives another reason why the average effect may be close to zero in an RCT despite it helping some people blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…
The State of Development Journals 2025: Quality, Acceptance Rates, Review Times, Open Access, and What’s New blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…
Incorporating informative Bayesian priors into impact evaluation offers the ability to learn more from experiments. @leoiacovone, @economeager & @dmckenzie001 demonstrate how to do this in the context of a Colombian exporting experiment. econometricsociety.org/publications/e…
Hi! The Behind-the-Scenes seminar series, where we explore how research papers come together, is back! We’re excited to welcome @dmckenzie001, who will be presenting on 27th May at 2 PM (UK time). Please register here to receive the Zoom link: forms.office.com/e/FUgVh7Jqxi…
We are excited to share our latest episode 🎙️! Backstory: David McKenzie on Problem Selection and Public Goods Creation Listen now: ift.tt/NMYH2rs
Trade economists: The World Bank Development Research Group group is hiring a research economist to work on international trade issues. Posting here: worldbankgroup.csod.com/ux/ats/careers…
Personal initiative training continues to yield positive benefits after 7 years, but impacts vary with gender - I summarize a form of business training that not only increased firm profits in Togo, but has impacts for men that grow over time blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…
How can you use the Social Science Prediction Platform (@socscipredict ) for development papers? @tedmiguel & I summarize some use cases. blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…
Weekly links February 14, 2025: sharing data and the problems of poor data, polisci trends, shift-share explained, and more… blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…
The World Bank wants to to hire a consultant to write a systematic review of A/B tests/nimble evaluations of interventions to help better implement private sector policies. E.g. tests of best ways to recruit firms, select them, disburse money.. Details: dropbox.com/scl/fi/jq434qz…
Weekly links January 31: the ruling elite need more ambition, green technologies need less tariffs, know who you are, and more… blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…
Weekly links January 24: averting pollution havens with clean energy, Global South is a silly term, production subsidies, Indian governance, and more… blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…
Tiny plastics, big problem - Gabe Englander summarizes a new paper that shows a link between marine microplastics and low birthweights in places close to the coasts blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…
Weekly links Jan 17, 2025: get up to speed with new literature, AI virtual tutors, P4R in practice, and more… blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…
Weekly links January 10, 2025: debating development as a field, learning from early community development, HC3 vs randomization-p, and more…. blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…
Weekly links January 10, 2025: debating development as a field, learning from early community development, HC3 vs randomization-p, and more…. blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…
End of year links 2024: a long list of reviews, advice, funding calls, and conference calls to keep you going into the new year. blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…
Job market series 2024 Wrap-up: We just finished our series of 26 posts by development economics PhD students on the job market. Here is a summary of the process and a list of all the posts in case you missed any blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…