David J Mckenzie
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1036019 |
|---|---|
| NOME | David J Mckenzie |
| PRENOMES | David J |
| SOBRENOME | Mckenzie |
| ASSINATURA | MCKENZIE D J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Stanford University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0961-9101 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 10 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 143 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2003 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Migration, families, and counterfactual families
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 to picture the counterfactual families they may have. Differences in marital status can induce two otherwise identical individuals to make different migration decisions. It also has implications for attempts to causally estimate impacts of migrati…
A Profile of the World's Young Developing Country International Migrants
Individual-level census and household survey data are used to present a rich profile of young developing country international migrants around the world. They are found to comprise a large share of the flow of migrants, particularly among migrants to other developing countries, with the age distribution of migrants peaking in the late teens or early twenties. Detailed data are presented on the age and sex composition of migrants, on whether young…
Earnings Mobility and Measurement Error
The degree of mobility in incomes is often seen as an important measure of the equality of opportunity in a society and of the flexibility and freedom of its labor market. However, estimation of mobility using panel data is biased by the presence of measurement error and nonrandom attrition from the panel. This study shows that dynamic pseudo‐panel methods can be used to consistently estimate measures of absolute and conditional mobility when gen…
The Consumer Response to the Mexican Peso Crisis
Household expenditure surveys are used to examine the effects of the Mexican peso crisis on household consumption. The main smoothing mechanism was a change in the composition of consumption, with households reducing semidurable spending to maintain basic food levels. This article provides a method for disentangling income, price, demographic, and crisis adjustment effects and finds that households increased their expenditure share on certain bas…
Do Entry Costs Provide an Empirical Basis for Poverty Traps? Evidence from Mexican Microenterprises
Recent theoretical literature in development economics has shown that nonconvex production technologies can result in low‐growth poverty traps. This article uses detailed microenterprise surveys in Mexico to examine the empirical evidence for these nonconvexities at low levels of capital stock. While theory emphasizes nondivisible start‐up costs that exceed the wealth of many potential entrepreneurs, this article shows start‐up costs to be very l…
Earnings Mobility And Measurement Error
"The degree of mobility in incomes is often seen as an important measure of the equality of opportunity in a society and of the flexibility and freedom of its labor market. But estimation of mobility using panel data is biased by the presence of measurement error and non-random attrition from the panel. This paper shows that dynamic pseudo-panel methods can be used to consistently estimate measures of absolute and conditional mobility in the pres…
Paper Walls Are Easier To Tear Down
"Increased attention to the development potential of international migration has led to calls for greater global cooperation and for industrial countries to consider temporary worker programs and other options for increasing the number of immigrants admitted. But less attention has been devoted to policies that migrant-sending countries pursue that impact on the ability of people to emigrate under the existing system. This paper documents the exi…
Measuring inequality with asset indicators
Aggregate Shocks and Urban Labor Market Responses
How do Households Cope with Aggregate Shocks? Evidence from the Mexican Peso Crisis
Measuring inequality with asset indicators
How do Households Cope with Aggregate Shocks? Evidence from the Mexican Peso Crisis
A Profile of the World's Young Developing Country International Migrants
Individual-level census and household survey data are used to present a rich profile of young developing country international migrants around the world. They are found to comprise a large share of the flow of migrants, particularly among migrants to other developing countries, with the age distribution of migrants peaking in the late teens or early twenties. Detailed data are presented on the age and sex composition of migrants, on whether young…
Do Entry Costs Provide an Empirical Basis for Poverty Traps? Evidence from Mexican Microenterprises
Recent theoretical literature in development economics has shown that nonconvex production technologies can result in low‐growth poverty traps. This article uses detailed microenterprise surveys in Mexico to examine the empirical evidence for these nonconvexities at low levels of capital stock. While theory emphasizes nondivisible start‐up costs that exceed the wealth of many potential entrepreneurs, this article shows start‐up costs to be very l…
Earnings Mobility and Measurement Error
The degree of mobility in incomes is often seen as an important measure of the equality of opportunity in a society and of the flexibility and freedom of its labor market. However, estimation of mobility using panel data is biased by the presence of measurement error and nonrandom attrition from the panel. This study shows that dynamic pseudo‐panel methods can be used to consistently estimate measures of absolute and conditional mobility when gen…
The Consumer Response to the Mexican Peso Crisis
Household expenditure surveys are used to examine the effects of the Mexican peso crisis on household consumption. The main smoothing mechanism was a change in the composition of consumption, with households reducing semidurable spending to maintain basic food levels. This article provides a method for disentangling income, price, demographic, and crisis adjustment effects and finds that households increased their expenditure share on certain bas…
Aggregate Shocks and Urban Labor Market Responses
How do Households Cope with Aggregate Shocks? Evidence from the Mexican Peso Crisis
Aggregate Shocks and Urban Labor Market Responses
Earnings Mobility And Measurement Error
"The degree of mobility in incomes is often seen as an important measure of the equality of opportunity in a society and of the flexibility and freedom of its labor market. But estimation of mobility using panel data is biased by the presence of measurement error and non-random attrition from the panel. This paper shows that dynamic pseudo-panel methods can be used to consistently estimate measures of absolute and conditional mobility in the pres…
Paper Walls Are Easier To Tear Down
"Increased attention to the development potential of international migration has led to calls for greater global cooperation and for industrial countries to consider temporary worker programs and other options for increasing the number of immigrants admitted. But less attention has been devoted to policies that migrant-sending countries pursue that impact on the ability of people to emigrate under the existing system. This paper documents the exi…
Measuring inequality with asset indicators
The Consumer Response to the Mexican Peso Crisis
Household expenditure surveys are used to examine the effects of the Mexican peso crisis on household consumption. The main smoothing mechanism was a change in the composition of consumption, with households reducing semidurable spending to maintain basic food levels. This article provides a method for disentangling income, price, demographic, and crisis adjustment effects and finds that households increased their expenditure share on certain bas…
Do Entry Costs Provide an Empirical Basis for Poverty Traps? Evidence from Mexican Microenterprises
Recent theoretical literature in development economics has shown that nonconvex production technologies can result in low‐growth poverty traps. This article uses detailed microenterprise surveys in Mexico to examine the empirical evidence for these nonconvexities at low levels of capital stock. While theory emphasizes nondivisible start‐up costs that exceed the wealth of many potential entrepreneurs, this article shows start‐up costs to be very l…
Earnings Mobility and Measurement Error
The degree of mobility in incomes is often seen as an important measure of the equality of opportunity in a society and of the flexibility and freedom of its labor market. However, estimation of mobility using panel data is biased by the presence of measurement error and nonrandom attrition from the panel. This study shows that dynamic pseudo‐panel methods can be used to consistently estimate measures of absolute and conditional mobility when gen…
A Profile of the World's Young Developing Country International Migrants
Individual-level census and household survey data are used to present a rich profile of young developing country international migrants around the world. They are found to comprise a large share of the flow of migrants, particularly among migrants to other developing countries, with the age distribution of migrants peaking in the late teens or early twenties. Detailed data are presented on the age and sex composition of migrants, on whether young…
Migration, families, and counterfactual families
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 to picture the counterfactual families they may have. Differences in marital status can induce two otherwise identical individuals to make different migration decisions. It also has implications for attempts to causally estimate impacts of migrati…
Economics (9 obras) · Demographic economics (7 obras) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (4 obras) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (4 obras) · Sociology (4 obras) · Agricultural risk and resilience (3 obras) · Computer Science (3 obras) · Demography (3 obras) · Econometrics (3 obras) · Economic growth (3 obras)