Publications

Dynamic Literature Review

• McKenzie, D, C Woodruff, K Bjorvatn, M Bruhn, J Cai, J Gonzalez-Uribe, S Quinn, T Sonobe, and M Valdivia. 2020. Training Entrepreneurs. VoxDevLit.

Journal Articles        

• Competition and Firm Recovery Post-COVID-19 (with Asli Demirgüç-Kunt and Dorothe Singer). Small Business Economics. Forthcoming. (CGD post; All About Finance post)

• Borrower Leakage from Costly Screening: Evidence from SME Lending in Peru (with Irani Arráiz, Benjamin Roth, Claudia Ruiz, and Rodolfo Stucchi). Journal of Development Economics, 153, 2021. (All About Finance post)

• Can Wage Subsidies Boost Employment in the Wage of an Economic Crisis? Evidence from Mexico. Journal of Development Studies, 56(8): 1558-1577, 2020. (2-page summary; All About Finance post; Working paper)

• Can Grants to Consortia Spur Innovation and Science-Industry Collaboration? Regression-Discontinuity Evidence from Poland (with David McKenzie). The World Bank Economic Review, 33(3): 690-716, 2019. (2-page summary; All About Finance post)

• The Impact of Consulting Services on Small and Medium Enterprises: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Mexico (with Dean Karlan and Antoinette Schoar). Journal of Political Economy, 126(2): 635-687, 2018. (2-page summary; VoxDev post; All About Finance post; Working paper)

• Psychometrics as a tool to improve credit information (with Irani Arráiz and Rodolfo Stucchi). The World Bank Economic Review, 30(Supplement1): S67-S76, 2017. (2-page summary; All About Finance blog; Working paper)

• The Impact of High School Financial Education: Evidence from a Large-Scale Evaluation in Brazil (with Luciana de Souza Leão, Arianna Legovini, Rogelio Marchetti, and Bilal Zia). American Economic Journal: Applied Economic, 8(4): 256-295, 2016. (2-page summary)

• Small Business Tax Policy and Informality: Evidence from Georgia (with Jan Loeprick). International Tax and Public Finance, 23(5): 834-853, 2016. (2-page summary; All About Finance post)

• A Helping Hand or the Long Arm of the Law? Experimental Evidence on what governments can do to formalize firms (with Gustavo Henrique de Andrade and David McKenzie). The World Bank Economic Review, 30(1): 24-54, 2016. (2-page summary; Working paper)

• Entry regulation and Formalization of Microenterprises in Developing Countries (with David McKenzie). World Bank Research Observer, 29(2): 186-201, 2014. (Working paper)

• The Real Impact of Improved Access to Finance: Evidence from Mexico (with Inessa Love). The Journal of Finance, 69(3): 1347-1376, 2014. (2-page summary; All About Finance post)

• The Minimal Impact of a Large-Scale Financial Education Program in Mexico City (with Gabriel Lara Ibarra and David McKenzie). Journal of Development Economics, 108: 184-189, 2014. (2-page summary)

• Using Administrative Data to Evaluate Municipal Reforms: An Evaluation of the Impact of Minas Fácil Expresso (with David McKenzie). Journal of Development Effectiveness, 5(3): 319-338, 2013. (2-page summary; All About Finance post; Working paper)

• Stimulating Managerial Capital in Emerging Markets: The Impact of Business Training for Young Entrepreneurs (with Bilal Zia). Journal of Development Effectiveness, 5(2): 232-266. 2013. (2-page summary; All About Finance post; Working paper)

• A Tale of Two Species: Revisiting the Effect of Registration Reform on Informal Business Owners in Mexico Journal of Development Economics, 103: 275-283, 2013. (All About Finance post)

• Good, Bad, and Ugly Colonial Activities: Do They Matter for Economic Development? (with Francisco Gallego). Review of Economics and Statistics, 94(2): 433-461, 2012. (All About Finance post; Working paper)

• License to Sell: The Effect of Business Registration Reform on Entrepreneurial Activity in Mexico. Review of Economics and Statistics, 93(1): 382-386, 2011. (2-page summary;  Working paper)

• Gender Differences in the Impact of Banking Services: Evidence from Mexico (with Inessa Love). Small Business Economics, 37(4): 493-512, 2011.

• What Capital is Missing in Developing Countries? (with Dean Karlan and Antoinette Schoar). American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 100(2): 629-633, 2010.

• In Pursuit of Balance: Randomization in Practice in Development Field Experiments (with David McKenzie). American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 1(4): 200-232, 2009.

Books and Book Chapters

• Design for Impact: A State Aid Evaluation in Romania (with Georgiana Pop, Mariana Iootty, and Claudia Ruiz Ortega). Washington, DC: World Bank, 2021.

• Microfinance for Entrepreneurs (with Fenella Carpena and Bilal Zia). In The Oxford Handbook of Entrepreneurial Finance, edited by Douglas Cumming. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 825-858, 2012.

• The Economic Impact of Expanding Access to Finance in Mexico (with Inessa Love). In Banking the World: Empirical Foundations of Financial Inclusion, edited by Robert Cull, Asli Demirgüç-Kunt, and Jonathan Morduch. MIT Press, pp. 137-156, 2012.