Recent work by David McKenzie
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Costs and benefits of helping firms formalise in Malawi
A cheap intervention increased firm registration but failed to impact tax registration, negating potential tax revenue
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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