Recent work by David McKenzie
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Cash transfers and adult labour outcomes in developing countries: Why does the Econ 101 labour-leisure trade-off model lead us astray?
Missing markets, price effects, and dynamic and general equilibrium effects help explain why poor people do not work less when given cash
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Do business plan competitions work?
A business plan competition successfully identified entrepreneurs capable of effectively utilising capital to grow their business in Nigeria.
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Do management interventions last? Evidence from India
The positive effects of improving management systems persist nine years after management consulting support was provided
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International migration's long-term impact: Evidence from a lottery
Outcomes for migration lottery winners suggest the economic payoff to moving to a richer country comes immediately and persists for at least a decade
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A better way to train small business owners: Using psychology to teach personal initiative
A new personal initiative training programme outperformed traditional business training in increasing profits for informal firms in Togo
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Enhancing the benefits of formalisation under a new status in Benin
Providing information and assistance to informal firms increases formalisation, but the cost of the intervention is likely prohibitively high
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Generating SMEs through a business plan competition in Nigeria
An experiment in Nigeria suggests that business plan competitions can effectively identify entrepreneurs capable of utilising capital to spur growth
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Assessing the effectiveness of active labour market programmes in developing countries
Studies suggest that vocational training, employment subsidies, and matching programmes have limited effect in increasing employment or wages
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Bad practices hold back small firms in developing countries
Survey of more than 20,000 small firms suggests better business practices are correlated with higher productivity, firm profits, and rates of survival