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Identifying and Spurring High-Growth Entrepreneurship: Experimental Evidence from a Business Plan Competition by McKenzie, David

“…Almost all firms in developing countries have fewer than ten workers, with a modal size of one. Are there potential high-growth entrepreneurs, and can public…”
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How Effective Are Active Labor Market Policies in Developing Countries? A Critical Review of Recent Evidence by McKenzie, David

“…Jobs are the primary policy concern of policymakers in many countries. The 2007–2008 global financial crisis, rising demographic pressures, high unemployment…”
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Business Practices in Small Firms in Developing Countries by McKenzie, David, Woodruff, Christopher

“…Management has a large effect on the productivity of medium and large firms. But does management matter in micro and small firms, where the majority of the…”
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Small business training to improve management practices in developing countries: re-assessing the evidence for ‘training doesn’t work by McKenzie, David

“…Abstract  Despite the popularity of business training among policy-makers, its use has faced increasing scepticism. Most of the first randomized experiments…”
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Beyond baseline and follow-up: The case for more T in experiments by McKenzie, David

“…The vast majority of randomized experiments in economics rely on a single baseline and single follow-up survey. While such a design is suitable for study of…”
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Do Poverty Traps Exist? Assessing the Evidence by Kraay, Aart, McKenzie, David

“…A “poverty trap” can be understood as a set of self-reinforcing mechanisms whereby countries start poor and remain poor: poverty begets poverty, so that…”
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The role of mechanistic physiology in investigating impacts of global warming on fishes by Lefevre, Sjannie, Wang, Tobias, McKenzie, David J

“…Warming of aquatic environments as a result of climate change is already having measurable impacts on fishes, manifested as changes in phenology, range shifts…”
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DOES MANAGEMENT MATTER? EVIDENCE FROM INDIA by Bloom, Nicholas, Eifert, Benn, Mahajan, Aprajit, McKenzie, David, Roberts, John

“…A long-standing question is whether differences in management practices across firms can explain differences in productivity, especially in developing…”
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Self-selection patterns in Mexico-US migration: The role of migration networks by McKenzie, David, Rapoport, Hillel

“…This paper examines the role of migration networks in determining self-selection patterns of Mexico-U.S. migration. A simple theoretical framework shows the…”
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Fears and Tears: Should More People Be Moving within and from Developing Countries, and What Stops this Movement? by McKenzie, David

“…Abstract Only one in seven of the world's population have ever migrated, despite the enormous gains in income possible through international and internal…”
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Eight questions about brain drain by Gibson, John, McKenzie, David

“…"The term 'brain drain' dominates popular discourse on high-skilled migration, and for this reason, we use it in this article. However, as Harry Johnson noted,…”
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Returns to Capital in Microenterprises: Evidence from a Field Experiment by de Mel, Suresh, McKenzie, David, Woodruff, Christopher

“…We use randomized grants to generate shocks to capital stock for a set of Sri Lankan microenterprises. We find the average real return to capital in these…”
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Can Business Owners Form Accurate Counterfactuals? Eliciting Treatment and Control Beliefs About Their Outcomes in the Alternative Treatment Status by McKenzie, David

“…A survey of participants in a large-scale business plan competition experiment, in which winners received an average of U.S. $50,000 each, is used to elicit…”
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The microeconomic determinants of emigration and return migration of the best and brightest: Evidence from the Pacific by Gibson, John, McKenzie, David

“…A unique survey which tracks worldwide the best and brightest academic performers from three Pacific countries is used to assess the extent of emigration and…”
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In Pursuit of Balance: Randomization in Practice in Development Field Experiments by Bruhn, Miriam, McKenzie, David

“…We present new evidence on the randomization methods used in existing experiments, and new simulations comparing these methods. We find that many papers do not…”
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Growing Markets through Business Training for Female Entrepreneurs: A Market-Level Randomized Experiment in Kenya by McKenzie, David, Puerto, Susana

“…A common concern with efforts to directly help some small businesses to grow is that their growth comes at the expense of their unassisted competitors. We test…”
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Network effects and the dynamics of migration and inequality: Theory and evidence from Mexico by Mckenzie, David, Rapoport, Hillel

“…International migration is costly and initially only the middle class of the wealth distribution may have both the means and incentives to migrate, which can…”
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THE DEVELOPMENT IMPACT OF A BEST PRACTICE SEASONAL WORKER POLICY by Gibson, John, McKenzie, David

“…Seasonal migration programs are widely used around the world, yet there is little evidence as to their development impacts. A multiyear prospective evaluation…”
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Predicting entrepreneurial success is hard: Evidence from a business plan competition in Nigeria by McKenzie, David, Sansone, Dario

“…We compare the absolute and relative performance of three approaches to predicting outcomes for entrants in a business plan competition in Nigeria: Business…”
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What are we learning from business training and entrepreneurship evaluations around the developing world? by McKenzie, David J, Woodruff, Christopher

“…Business training programs are a popular policy option to improve the performance of enterprises around the world, and the number of rigorous impact…”
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