David McKenzie

@dmckenzie.bsky.social

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Lead Economist at the World Bank’s Development Research Group Development Impact blogger https://sites.google.com/site/decrgdmckenzie/

Details of WBER call for papers, including URL and submission deadline of November 30.

Desk rejection rates and time to review at different development journals.

The number of papers submitted to development journals has grown a lot since 2016.

Share of government spending going to interest payments 1980-2022, for the U.S., Italy, Japan, Greece, NZ, Germany, Brazil and Ghana - data from Our World in Data.

We find that adding risk and uncertainty changes the level and selection of migration, and causes IIA to start to break down.