David McKenzie

TL;DR: In this article, the authors run a management field experiment on large Indian textile firms, providing free consulting on modern management practices to a randomly chosen set of treatment plants and compared their performance to the control plants.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a randomized experiment to measure the return to capital for the average microenterprise in their sample, regardless of whether they apply for credit and found that the average real return to be 5.7 percent a month, substantially higher than the market interest rate.

TL;DR: This article examined the empirical evidence for an inverse U-shaped relationship between emigration and inequality in rural sending communities in Mexico and found that the overall impact of migration is to reduce inequality across communities with relatively high levels of past migration.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a randomized experiment to measure the return to capital for the average microenterprise in their sample, regardless of whether they apply for credit and found that the average real return to be 5.7 percent a month, substantially higher than the market interest rate.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present new evidence on the randomization methods used in existing randomized experiments, and carry out simulations in order to provide guidance for researchers, and find that many researchers are not controlling for the method of randomization in their analysis, leading to tests with incorrect size, and can result in lower power than if a pure random draw was used.