David McKenzie

23.6k total citations · 10 hit papers
286 papers, 13.9k citations indexed

About

David McKenzie is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science and Accounting. According to data from OpenAlex, David McKenzie has authored 286 papers receiving a total of 13.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 159 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 140 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 50 papers in Accounting. Recurrent topics in David McKenzie's work include Migration and Labor Dynamics (100 papers), Microfinance and Financial Inclusion (43 papers) and Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (36 papers). David McKenzie is often cited by papers focused on Migration and Labor Dynamics (100 papers), Microfinance and Financial Inclusion (43 papers) and Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (36 papers). David McKenzie collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and New Zealand. David McKenzie's co-authors include Christopher Woodruff, John Gibson, Hillel Rapoport, Suresh de Mel, Steven Stillman, Miriam Bruhn, Nicholas Bloom, Aprajit Mahajan, John Roberts and Dean Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

David McKenzie

272 papers receiving 12.3k citations

Hit Papers

Returns to Capital in Microenterprises: Evidence from a F... 2005 2026 2012 2019 2008 2006 2012 2009 2005 200 400 600

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David McKenzie United States 61 6.6k 5.7k 2.5k 2.0k 1.3k 286 13.9k
Dean Karlan United States 51 7.5k 1.1× 2.6k 0.5× 3.0k 1.2× 3.6k 1.8× 603 0.5× 215 12.5k
Michael Kremer United States 54 5.5k 0.8× 3.1k 0.6× 4.2k 1.6× 667 0.3× 1.1k 0.9× 165 14.7k
Naila Kabeer United Kingdom 47 4.4k 0.7× 4.9k 0.9× 3.8k 1.5× 530 0.3× 1.3k 1.0× 179 12.5k
Marco Caliendo Germany 34 4.0k 0.6× 1.7k 0.3× 933 0.4× 973 0.5× 1.6k 1.2× 173 8.8k
James J. Heckman United States 14 10.6k 1.6× 4.8k 0.9× 1.3k 0.5× 6.2k 3.0× 2.1k 1.6× 22 23.7k
Petra Todd United States 34 5.8k 0.9× 2.7k 0.5× 2.6k 1.0× 1.7k 0.8× 1.2k 0.9× 86 12.7k
Marcel Fafchamps United States 55 5.0k 0.8× 2.8k 0.5× 2.1k 0.8× 1.0k 0.5× 328 0.3× 199 10.2k
William Easterly United States 59 12.2k 1.9× 8.9k 1.6× 2.6k 1.0× 1.4k 0.7× 700 0.5× 176 23.8k
Edward L. Glaeser United States 75 20.8k 3.2× 10.7k 1.9× 1.5k 0.6× 2.7k 1.3× 1.6k 1.2× 284 33.8k
Aart Kraay United States 50 10.4k 1.6× 6.3k 1.1× 1.0k 0.4× 3.6k 1.8× 543 0.4× 135 21.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by David McKenzie

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David McKenzie

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Campos, Francisco, Markus Goldstein, & David McKenzie. (2023). How should the government bring small firms into the formal system? Experimental evidence from Malawi. Journal of Development Economics. 161. 103045–103045. 4 indexed citations
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Carranza, Eliana & David McKenzie. (2023). Job Training and Job Search Assistance Policies in Developing Countries. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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McKenzie, David, et al.. (2020). Remote-Learning, Time-Use, and Mental Health of Ecuadorian High-School Students during the COVID-19 Quarantine. World Bank policy research working paper. 12 indexed citations
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McKenzie, David. (2019). If it needs a power calculation, does it matter for poverty reduction?. World Development. 127. 104815–104815. 4 indexed citations
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Bollard, Albert, David McKenzie, Melanie Morten, & Hillel Rapoport. (2012). Remittances and the Brain Drain Revisited. The World Bank Economic Review. 9 indexed citations
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Stillman, Steven, John Gibson, David McKenzie, & Halahingano Rohorua. (2012). Miserable Migrants? Natural Experiment Evidence on International Migration and Objective and Subjective Well-Being. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations
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McKenzie, David, et al.. (2012). Who You Train Matters: Identifying Complementary Effects of Financial Education on Migrant Households. SSRN Electronic Journal. 3 indexed citations
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Dang, Hai‐Anh, et al.. (2011). Using Repeated Cross-Sections to Explore Movements in and Out of Poverty. SSRN Electronic Journal. 31 indexed citations
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Fafchamps, Marcel, David McKenzie, Simon Quinn, & Christopher Woodruff. (2011). When is capital enough to get female microenterprises growing? Evidence from a randomized experiment in Ghana. Warwick Research Archive Portal (University of Warwick). 18 indexed citations
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Gibson, John & David McKenzie. (2010). The Economic Consequences Of. SSRN Electronic Journal. 11 indexed citations
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Gibson, John & David McKenzie. (2009). Preliminary Impacts of a New Seasonal Work Program on Rural Household Incomes in the Pacific. Research Commons (University of Waikato). 1 indexed citations
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McKenzie, David, et al.. (2008). Who is Coming from Vanuatu to New Zealand Under the New Recognized Seasonal Employer Program. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations
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Gibson, John, David McKenzie, & Halahingano Rohorua. (2006). How Cost Elastic are Remittances? Estimates from Tongan Migrants in New Zealand. ANU Open Research (Australian National University). 21(1). 112–128. 42 indexed citations
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Antman, Francisca & David McKenzie. (2005). Poverty Traps and Nonlinear Income Dynamics with Measurement Error and Individual Heterogeneity. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations
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McKenzie, David, et al.. (2004). Bolivian capitalization and privatization: Approximation to an evaluation. Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich). 5 indexed citations
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McKenzie, David. (2002). The Prudence of Mexican Consumers. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 11(2). 393–407. 2 indexed citations
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McKenzie, David. (2002). Are tortillas a Giffen Good in Mexico. Economics bulletin. 15(1). 1–7. 12 indexed citations
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McKenzie, David. (2001). Estimation of AR(1) Models with Unequally Spaced Pseudo-panels. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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McKenzie, David. (2001). Dynamic pseudo-panel theory and analysis of consumption in Taiwan and Mexico. University Microfilms International eBooks. 2 indexed citations
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Alderman, Harold, Ruslan Yemtsov, Alessandro Olper, et al.. (2001). The World Bank economic review 15 (1). The World Bank Economic Review. 15. 1–194. 1 indexed citations

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