Documents et rapports
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Migration, families, and counterfactual families (anglais)
Migration changes how families form and dissolve, and how one should conceptualize the family. This has implications for thinking about how the migration decision is modelled when individuals are unable...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10626 Date du document: 5 décembre 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bertoli,Simone,Mckenzie,David J.,Murard,Elie
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Is There Still A Role for Direct Government Support to Firms in Developing Countries? (anglais)
Should governments in developing countries directly support firms with policies such as grants, subsidized loans, and training and consulting programs, or should they instead just aim to enact sensible...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10628 Date du document: 5 décembre 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mckenzie,David J.
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Job Training and Job Search Assistance Policies in Developing Countries (anglais)
Governments around the developing world face pressure to intervene actively to help jobseekers find employment. Two of the most common policies used are job training, based on the idea that many of those...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10576 Date du document: 28 septembre 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Carranza,Eliana,Mckenzie,David J.
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Training Microenterprise Owners by Zoom (anglais)
Digital technology offers the potential to lower the costs of delivering business training, and to enable it to be scaled across a wide geographic area. But there are questions about how feasible such...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 185033 Date du document: 28 septembre 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Davies,Elwyn Adriaan Robin,Deffebach,Peter William,Iacovone,Leonardo,Mckenzie,David J.
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Training Microentrepreneurs over Zoom : Experimental Evidence from Mexico (anglais)
Standard in-person business training programs are costly and difficult to scale to the millions of microenterprises in the developing world. The authors conducted an experiment to test the feasibility...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10574 Date du document: 26 septembre 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Davies,Elwyn Adriaan Robin,Deffebach,Peter William,Iacovone,Leonardo,Mckenzie,David J.
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Fears and Tears : Should More People Be Moving within and from Developing Countries, and What Stops this Movement? (anglais)
Only one in seven of the world’s population have ever migrated, despite the enormous gains in income possible through international and internal movement. The author examines the evidence for different...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 187530 Date du document: 10 janvier 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mckenzie,David J.
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Bayesian Impact Evaluation with Informative Priors : An Application to a Colombian Management and Export Improvement Program (anglais)
Policymakers often test expensive new programs on relatively small samples. Formally incorporating informative Bayesian priors into impact evaluation offers the promise to learn more from these experiments...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10274 Date du document: 9 janvier 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Iacovone,Leonardo,Mckenzie,David J.,Meager,Rachael
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How a Program to Increase Exporting May Have Actually Reduced Exports (anglais)
Colombia’s exports are highly concentrated in a few commodities such as petroleum, coal, coffee, and gold. A key policy goal is to diversify and expand this export base. However, one key barrier to being...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 179391 Date du document: 1 janvier 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Iacovone,Leonardo,Meager,Rachael,Mckenzie,David J.
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Capacity Building as a Route to Export Market Expansion : A Six-Country Experiment in the Western Balkans∗ (anglais)
The limited market size of many small emerging economies is a key constraint to the growth of innovative small and medium enterprises. Exporting offers a potential solution, but firms may struggle to locate...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10256 Date du document: 7 décembre 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cusolito,Ana Paula,Darova,Ornella,Mckenzie,David J.
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Field and Natural Experiments in Migration (anglais)
Many research and policy questions surrounding migration are causal questions. What causes people to migrate? What are the consequences of migration for the migrants, their families, and their communities?...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10250 Date du document: 1 décembre 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mckenzie,David J.,Yang,Dean
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Helping Western Balkan SMEs Expand Exports Through Online Training and Consulting (anglais)
One of the key challenges facing innovative small and medium enterprises is customer acquisition. This is especially a constraint in less populated countries like those in the Western Balkans, where domestic...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 178393 Date du document: 1 décembre 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cusolito,Ana Paula,Darova,Ornella,Mckenzie,David J.
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Three Interventions to Reduce Irregular Migration and Promote Alternatives : An Experiment in The Gambia (anglais)
Irregular migration from Africa to Europe attracts substantial policy attention. Although international migration can enable people from developing countries to dramatically increase their incomes, the...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 175680 Date du document: 5 septembre 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bah,Tijan L,Batista,Catia,Gubert,Flore,Mckenzie,David J.
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Can Information and Alternatives to Irregular Migration Reduce “Backway” Migration from The Gambia ? (anglais)
Irregular migration from West Africa to Europe across the Sahara and Mediterranean is extremely risky for migrants and a key policy concern. A cluster-randomized experiment with 3,641 young men from 391...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10146 Date du document: 22 août 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bah,Tijan L,Batista,Catia,Gubert,Flore,Mckenzie,David J.
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Fears and Tears : Should More People Be Moving within and from Developing Countries, and What Stops This Movement ? (anglais)
Only one in seven of the world’s population has ever migrated, despite the enormous gains in income possible through international and internal movement. This paper examines the evidence for different...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10128 Date du document: 25 juillet 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mckenzie,David J.
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Testing Classic Theories of Migration in the Lab (anglais)
The predictions of different classic migration theories are tested by using incentivized laboratory experiments to investigate how potential migrants decide between working in different destinations. First...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9751 Date du document: 17 août 2021 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Batista,Catia,Mckenzie,David J.
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How Has COVID-19 Affected the Intention to Migrate via the Backway to Europe (anglais)
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in border closures in many countries and a sharp reduction in overall international mobility. However, this disruption of legal pathways to migration has raised concerns...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9658 Date du document: 12 mai 2021 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bah,Tijan L,Batista,Catia,Gubert,Flore,Mckenzie,David J.
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What Prevents More Small Firms from Using Professional Business Services ? An Information and Quality-Rating Experiment in Nigeria (anglais)
Why do more small firms in developing countries not use the market for professional business services like accounting, marketing, and human resource specialists? Two key reasons may be that firms lack...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9614 Date du document: 6 avril 2021 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Anderson,Stephen J.,Mckenzie,David J.
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Aspirations and Financial Decisions : Experimental Evidence from the Philippines (anglais)
A randomized experiment among poor entrepreneurs tested the impact of exogenously inducing higher financial aspirations. In theory, raising aspirations could have positive effects by inducing higher effort...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9586 Date du document: 17 mars 2021 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mckenzie,David J.,Mohpal,Aakash,Yang,Dean
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Improving Business Practices and the Boundary of the Entrepreneur : A Randomized Experiment Comparing Training, Consulting, Insourcing and Outsourcing (anglais)
Many small firms lack the finance and marketing skills needed for firm growth. The standard approach in many business support programs is to attempt to train the entrepreneur to develop these skills, through...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9502 Date du document: 17 décembre 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Anderson,Stephen J.,Mckenzie,David J.
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Using the Market to Hire Skills as an Alternative to Business Training (anglais)
This note reports on a new approach to improving business practices in growing firms - using the market to insource or outsource skills instead of training the entrepreneur.
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 155245 Date du document: 1 décembre 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Anderson,Stephen J.,Mckenzie,David J.