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Rajeev H. Dehejia is affiliated with New York University in the United States and conducts research primarily in the fields of social sciences and economics, econometrics, and finance. Their work spans multiple subfields, including economics and econometrics, education, accounting, gender studies, and general economics, econometrics, and finance.

The scientist's research interests cover a range of topics, notably school choice and performance, gender, labor, and family dynamics, housing market and economics, microfinance and financial inclusion, taxation and compliance studies, Islamic finance and banking studies, and global trade and economics.

Dehejia has published regularly in several academic venues. Frequent publication platforms include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • American Economic Review
  • Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
  • Review of Development Economics

Their recent papers are:

  • "Why Do Households Leave School Value Added on the Table? The Roles of Information and Preferences," 2023, American Economic Review
  • "Financial Development and Micro-Entrepreneurship," 2021, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
  • "Working conditions and factory survival: Evidence from better factories Cambodia," 2020, Review of Development Economics
  • "Why do households leave school value added "on the table"? The roles of information and preferences," 2022, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "Information, Preferences, and Household Demand for School Value Added," 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal

Dehejia collaborates with several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Cristian Pop-Eleches
  • Robert Ainsworth
  • Miguel Urquiola
  • Daniel Aaronson
  • Andrew Jordan

Best Publications

  • Propensity score-matching methods for nonexperimental causal studies

    Rajeev H. Dehejia;Sadek Wahba

  • Causal Effects in Nonexperimental Studies: Reevaluating the Evaluation of Training Programs

    Rajeev H. Dehejia;Sadek Wahba

  • Causal Effects in Non-Experimental Studies: Re-Evaluating the Evaluation of Training Programs

    Rajeev H. Dehejia;Sadek Wahba

  • Causal Effects in Non-Experimental Studies: Re-Evaluating the Evaluation of Training Programs

    Rajeev H. Dehejia;Sadek Wahba

  • Booms, Busts, and Babies' Health

    Rajeev Dehejia;Adriana Lleras-Muney

  • Booms, Busts, and Babies' Health

    Rajeev Dehejia;Adriana Lleras-Muney

  • Child labor and agricultural shocks

    Kathleen G. Beegle;Rajeev H. Dehejia;Roberta Gatti;Roberta Gatti

  • Practical propensity score matching: a reply to Smith and Todd

    Rajeev Dehejia

  • Why Should We Care About Child Labor? The Education, Labor Market, and Health Consequences of Child Labor

    Kathleen Beegle;Rajeev H. Dehejia;Roberta Gatti

  • Insuring consumption and happiness through religious organizations

    Rajeev Dehejia;Thomas DeLeire;Thomas DeLeire;Erzo F.P. Luttmer;Erzo F.P. Luttmer

  • Propensity Score Matching Methods for Non-experimental Causal Studies

    Rajeev Dehejia;Sadek Wahba

  • The Effect of Automobile Insurance and Accident Liability Laws on Traffic Fatalities

    Alma Cohen;Rajeev Dehejia

  • Do interest rates matter? Credit demand in the Dhaka slums

    Rajeev Dehejia;Heather Montgomery;Jonathan Morduch

  • Program Evaluation as a Decision Problem

    Rajeev H. Dehejia

  • Why Should We Care about Child Labor? The Education, Labor Market, and Health Consequences of Child Labor

    Rajeev H. Dehejia;Kathleen Beegle;Roberta Gatti

  • Why should we care about child labor? The education, labor market, and health consequences of child labor

    Kathleen Beegle;Rajeev Dehejia;Roberta Gatti

  • Financial Incentives and Fertility

    Alma Cohen;Rajeev Dehejia;Dmitri Romanov

  • Child Labor, Crop Shocks, and Credit Constraints

    Kathleen Beegle;Rajeev Dehejia;Roberta Gatti

  • From Local to Global: External Validity in a Fertility Natural Experiment

    Rajeev Dehejia;Cristian Pop-Eleches;Cyrus Samii

  • The Impact of Income and Non-Income Shocks on Child Labor: Evidence from a Panel Survey of Tanzania

    Amarakoon Bandara;Rajeev Dehejia;Shaheen Lavie-Rouse

  • CHILD LABOR, INCOME SHOCKS, AND ACCESS TO CREDIT*

    Kathleen Beegle;Rajeev H. Dehejia;Roberta Gatti

  • Child Labor: The Role of Income Variability and Access to Credit Across Countries

    Rajeev Dehejia;Roberta Gatti

  • Do Interest Rates Matter? Credit Demand in the Dhaka Slums

    Rajeev H. Dehejia;Jonathan Morduch;Heather Montgomery

Frequent Co-Authors

Drusilla K. Brown
Drusilla K. Brown Tufts University
Erzo F. P. Luttmer
Erzo F. P. Luttmer Dartmouth College
Thomas DeLeire
Thomas DeLeire Georgetown University
Arvind Panagariya
Arvind Panagariya Columbia University
Jonathan Morduch
Jonathan Morduch New York University
Daniel Aaronson
Daniel Aaronson Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Raymond Fisman
Raymond Fisman Boston University

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