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David John McKenzie
98 works
· latest 2022
· 9 institutions
cluster: provisional
ORCID 0000-0002-1885-2426
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Aspirations and financial decisions: Experimental evidence from the Philippines
Journal of Development Economics
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2022
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3 authors
32
citations
Improving Business Practices and the Boundary of the Entrepreneur: A Randomized Experiment Comparing Training, Consulting, Insourcing, and Outsourcing
Journal of Political Economy
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2021
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2 authors
72
citations
Growing Markets through Business Training for Female Entrepreneurs: A Market-Level Randomized Experiment in Kenya
American Economic Journal Applied Economics
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2021
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2 authors
79
citations
Small business training to improve management practices in developing countries: re-assessing the evidence for ‘training doesn’t work’
Oxford Review of Economic Policy
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2021
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1 author
148
citations
Improving Business Practices and the Boundary of the Entrepreneur: A Randomized Experiment Comparing Training, Consulting, Insourcing and Outsourcing
World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks
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2020
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2 authors
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report
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Open access
28
citations
Remote-learning, time-use, and mental health of Ecuadorian high-school students during the COVID-19 quarantine
World Development
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2020
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5 authors
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Open access
232
citations
Small Business Training to Improve Management Practices in Developing Countries: Reassessing the Evidence for “Training Doesn'T Work”
World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks
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2020
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1 author
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report
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62
citations
Do Management Interventions Last? Evidence from India
American Economic Journal Applied Economics
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2020
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3 authors
92
citations
Toward Successful Development Policies: Insights from Research in Development Economics
World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks
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2020
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20 authors
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report
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Open access
11
citations
Can Government Intervention Make Firms More Investment Ready? A Randomized Experiment in the Western Balkans
The Review of Economics and Statistics
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2019
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3 authors
25
citations
Predicting Entrepreneurial Success is Hard: Evidence from a Business Plan Competition in Nigeria
Elsevier eBooks
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2019
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1 author
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book
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Open access
18
citations
Predicting entrepreneurial success is hard: Evidence from a business plan competition in Nigeria
Journal of Development Economics
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2019
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2 authors
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Open access
125
citations
Small Firm Death in Developing Countries
The Review of Economics and Statistics
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2018
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2 authors
105
citations
The effects of cash transfers on adult labor market outcomes
IZA Journal of Development and Migration
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2018
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3 authors
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Open access
162
citations
Is Personal Initiative Training a Substitute or Complement to the Existing Human Capital of Women? Results from a Randomized Trial in Togo
AEA Papers and Proceedings
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2018
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7 authors
24
citations
Man vs. Machine in Predicting Successful Entrepreneurs: Evidence from a Business Plan Competition in Nigeria
World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks
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2017
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2 authors
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report
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32
citations
Does inducing informal firms to formalize make sense? Experimental evidence from Benin
Journal of Public Economics
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2017
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4 authors
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Open access
123
citations
Teaching Personal Initiative Beats Traditional Training in Boosting Small Business in West Africa
American Association for the Advancement of Science eBooks
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2017
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6 authors
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book
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Open access
170
citations
Teaching personal initiative beats traditional training in boosting small business in West Africa
Science
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2017
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7 authors
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Open access
399
citations
The World Bank Research Observer 32 (2)
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2017
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9 authors
21
citations
Identifying and Spurring High-Growth Entrepreneurship: Experimental Evidence from a Business Plan Competition
American Economic Review
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2017
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1 author
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Open access
332
citations
Can Business Owners Form Accurate Counterfactuals?: Eliciting Treatment and Control Beliefs about Their Outcomes in the Alternative Treatment Status
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2017
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1 author
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book
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4
citations
How Effective Are Active Labor Market Policies in Developing Countries? A Critical Review of Recent Evidence
The World Bank Research Observer
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2017
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1 author
282
citations
Growing Markets through Business Training for Female Entrepreneurs: A Market-Level Randomized Experiment in Kenya
World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks
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2017
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2 authors
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report
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Open access
13
citations
Business Practices in Small Firms in Developing Countries
Management Science
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2016
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2 authors
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Open access
296
citations
The impact of soft skills training on female youth employment: evidence from a randomized experiment in Jordan
IZA Journal of Labor & Development
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2016
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4 authors
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83
citations
Identifying and Spurring High-Growth Entrepreneurship: Experimental Evidence from a Business Plan Competition
World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks
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2015
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1 author
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report
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56
citations
The Impact of Vocational Training for the Unemployed: Experimental Evidence from Turkey
The Economic Journal
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2014
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4 authors
168
citations
A Helping Hand or the Long Arm of the Law? Experimental Evidence on What Governments Can Do to Formalize Firms
The World Bank Economic Review
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2014
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3 authors
116
citations
Invitation Choice Structure Has No Impact on Attendance in a Female Business Training Program in Kenya
PLoS ONE
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2014
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4 authors
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Open access
19
citations
Do Poverty Traps Exist? Assessing the Evidence
The Journal of Economic Perspectives
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2014
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2 authors
360
citations
The minimal impact of a large-scale financial education program in Mexico City
Journal of Development Economics
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2014
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3 authors
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Open access
100
citations
Entry Regulation and the Formalization of Microenterprises in Developing Countries
The World Bank Research Observer
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2014
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2 authors
214
citations
Microenterprise growth and the flypaper effect: Evidence from a randomized experiment in Ghana
Journal of Development Economics
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2013
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4 authors
350
citations
Business training and female enterprise start-up, growth, and dynamics: Experimental evidence from Sri Lanka
Journal of Development Economics
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2013
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3 authors
288
citations
What Are We Learning from Business Training and Entrepreneurship Evaluations around the Developing World?
The World Bank Research Observer
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2013
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2 authors
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Open access
659
citations
Entry Regulation and Formalization of Microenterprises in Developing Countries
World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks
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2013
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2 authors
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report
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90
citations
The Development Impact of a Best Practice Seasonal Worker Policy
The Review of Economics and Statistics
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2013
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2 authors
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Open access
142
citations
Why is Voluntary Financial Education so Unpopular? Experimental Evidence from Mexico
World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks
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2013
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3 authors
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report
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Open access
29
citations
The Demand for, and Consequences of, Formalization among Informal Firms in Sri Lanka
American Economic Journal Applied Economics
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2013
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3 authors
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321
citations
Lessons for Matching Grant Programs from Failed Attempts to Evaluate Them
World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks
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2013
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4 authors
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book
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Open access
2
citations
What are we Learning from Business Training and Entrepreneurship Evaluations around the Developing World?
World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks
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2012
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2 authors
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93
citations
Who You Train Matters: Identifying Complementary Effects of Financial Education on Migrant Households
World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks
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2012
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3 authors
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97
citations
Soft Skills or Hard Cash? The Impact of Training and Wage Subsidy Programs on Female Youth Employment in Jordan
World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks
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2012
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4 authors
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87
citations
Business Training and Female Enterprise Start-up, Growth, and Dynamics: Experimental Evidence from Sri Lanka
World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks
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2012
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3 authors
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33
citations
One-Time Transfers of Cash or Capital Have Long-Lasting Effects on Microenterprises in Sri Lanka
Science
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2012
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3 authors
186
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The Economic Consequences of ‘Brain Drain’ of the Best and Brightest: Microeconomic Evidence from Five Countries
The Economic Journal
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2012
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2 authors
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217
citations
A land of milk and honey with streets paved with gold: Do emigrants have over-optimistic expectations about incomes abroad?
Journal of Development Economics
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2012
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3 authors
215
citations
Business Training and Female Enterprise Start-Up, Growth, and Dynamics: Experimental Evidence from Sri Lanka
SSRN Electronic Journal
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2012
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3 authors
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preprint
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Open access
61
citations
Enterprise Recovery Following Natural Disasters
The Economic Journal
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2011
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3 authors
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Open access
197
citations
Eight Questions about Brain Drain
The Journal of Economic Perspectives
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2011
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2 authors
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Open access
319
citations
The Impact of Economics Blogs
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2011
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2 authors
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report
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15
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When is capital enough to get female microenterprises growing? Evidence from a randomized experiment in Ghana
National Bureau of Economic Research
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2011
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4 authors
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report
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167
citations
How Can We Learn Whether Firm Policies Are Working in Africa? Challenges (and Solutions?) For Experiments and Structural Models
Journal of African Economies
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2011
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1 author
21
citations
Does management matter? Evidence from India
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2011
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4 authors
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report
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603
citations
Eliciting probabilistic expectations with visual aids in developing countries: how sensitive are answers to variations in elicitation design?
Journal of Applied Econometrics
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2011
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3 authors
96
citations
Does Management Matter? Evidence from India
The Quarterly Journal of Economics
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2011
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4 authors
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1,416
citations
Remittances and the Brain Drain Revisited: The Microdata Show That More Educated Migrants Remit More
The World Bank Economic Review
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2011
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4 authors
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Open access
245
citations
Eliciting probabilistic expectations with visual aids in developing countries: how sensitive are answers to variations in elicitation design?
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2010
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3 authors
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report
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11
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The Impacts of International Migration on Remaining Household Members: Omnibus Results from a Migration Lottery Program
The Review of Economics and Statistics
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2010
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3 authors
238
citations