Rajiv Dehejia
Rajeev Dehejia is Professor of Economics and Public Service and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University. He is also the co-director of NYU’s Development Research Institute.
Rajeev is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and affiliated with the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) and CESifo. He served as Joint Editor of the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Coeditor of the Journal of Human Resources, and Associate Editor at the Journal of the American Statistical Association.
Rajeev has worked on econometric methods for program evaluation, including matching and propensity score methods, Bayesian methods for program evaluation, and most recently external validity in experimental and non-experimental methods. Other research interests include development economics (child labor and micro credit enterprises) and labor economics (fertility and labor supply). His research has been published in The Journal of Law and Economics, The Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of the American Statistical Association, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Econometrics, the Journal of Public Economics, the Journal of Development Economics, and Economic Development and Cultural Change.