Episode 14: David McKenzie on Improving Management Practices through Consulting

The paper discussed in this episode is: “Improving Management with Individual and Group-Based Consulting: Results from a Randomized Experiment in Colombia”, by Leonardo Iacovone, William Maloney, and David McKenzie.

Other papers discussed in this episode are:

Bloom, Nicholas, and John Van Reenen (2007). "Measuring and Explaining Management Practices across Firms and Countries" Quarterly Journal of Economics, 122(4), 1341- 1408.

Bloom, Nicholas, Benn Eifert, Aprajit Mahajan, David McKenzie, and John Roberts (2013). "Does Management Matter? Evidence from India" Quarterly Journal of Economics, 128(1), 1-51

McKenzie, David and Christopher Woodruff (2014) “What are we learning from business training evaluations around the developing world?”, World Bank Research Observer, 29(1): 48-82