Rajeev
Dehejia
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Published Papers (in reverse chronological order of
publication)
2008
"When is ATE Enough? Rules of Thumb and Decision
Analysis in Evaluating Training Programs" (work in progress).
- forthcoming in Advances
in Econometrics: Modeling and Evaluating Treatment Effects in Econometrics, Volume 21, D. Millimet, J. Smith, and E.
Vytlacil (eds.). New York: Elsevier-Science.
- Download the paper: pdf format.
2007
"The
Role of Religious and Social Organizations in the Lives of Disadvantaged
Youth" (with Thomas DeLeire and Erzo Luttmer, and Josh Mitchell).
"Institutions,
Financial Development, and Pathways of Growth: The United States from 1900 to
1940" (with Adriana Lleras-Muney).
- Journal of Law and
Economics, Volume 50, Number 2
(May 2007), pp. 239-272.
- National Bureau of
Economic Research Working Paper No. 9551 (March 2003).
- Download the paper: published version or NBER version.
"Insuring
Consumption and Happiness Through Religious Organizations" (with Thomas
DeLeire and Erzo Luttmer).
2006
"Child
Labor and Agricultural Shocks" (with Kathleen Beegle and Roberta Gatti).
- Journal of
Development Economics, Volume
81 (September 2006), pp. 80-96; published version.
- National Bureau of
Economic Research Working Paper No. 10088.
- CEPR Discussion Paper
No. 4881.
- World Bank Working
Paper No. 3075.
2005
"Program
Evaluation as a Decision Problem."
- Journal of
Econometrics, Vol. 125 (2005),
pp. 141-173; published version.
- National Bureau of
Economic Research Working Paper No. 6954 (February 1999).
"Practical Propensity Score
Matching"
- Journal of
Econometrics, Vol. 125 (2005),
pp. 255-264; published version.
- Appears as a
response to Smith and Todd:
"Child Labor: The Role of Income Variability and Access
to Credit across Countries" (with Roberta Gatti).
- Economic
Development and Cultural Change,
Volume 53, Number 4 (July 2005), pp. 913-932; published version.
- National Bureau of
Economic Research Working Paper No. 9018 (June 2002); working paper version (contains
variant tables).
2004
"Booms, Busts, and Babies' Health" (with Adriana
Lleras-Muney)
- Quarterly Journal
of Economics, Volume 119,
Number 3 (August 2004), pp. 1091-1130; published version.
- Previously "The
Timing of Births: Is the Quality of Children Counter-Cyclical?"
National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 10122 (November
2003).
- Download the paper: published version, or the penultimate and nber working paper versions (which
contain expanded tables not in the published version).
"The Effects of Automobile Insurance
and Accident Liability Laws on Traffic Fatalities" (with Alma Cohen).
- Journal of Law and
Economics, Vol. XLVII, No. 2
(October 2004), pp. 357-393; published version.
- National Bureau of
Economic Research Working Paper No. 9602.
2003
"Was
There a Riverside Miracle? A Hierarchical Framework for Evaluating Programs
with Grouped Data".
- Journal of
Business and Economic Statistics,
Volume 21, Number 1 (January 2003), pp. 1-11; published version.
- National Bureau of
Economic Research Working Paper No. 7844 (August 2000).
- Download the working paper version (contains
figures not included in the published version).
2002
"Propensity
Score Matching Methods for Non-Experimental Causal Studies" (with Sadek
Wahba).
1999
"Causal
Effects in Non-Experimental Studies: Re-Evaluating the Evaluation of Training
Programs" (with Sadek Wahba).
- Journal of the
American Statistical Association,
Volume 94, Number 448 (December 1999), pp. 1053-1062; published version.
- National Bureau of
Economic Research Working Paper No. 6586 (June 1998).
- Original thesis version and tables (sometimes cited as Dehejia
and Wahba 1995/ 96/ 97/ 98); contains Proposition 4 on propensity score
weighting, which is not in the published version but is cited in
Wooldridge.
- Data available for download.
Work in Progress (in reverse chronological order)
2008
"Do Financial Incentives Affect Fertility?" (with Alma Cohen).
2007
"The
Long-Run Consequences of Child Labor: Evidence from Longitudinal Data in
Tanzania" (with Kathleen Beegle, Roberta Gatti, and Sofya Krutikova).
"Do
Interest Rates Matter? Credit Demand in the Dhaka Slums" (with Heather
Montgomery and Jonathan Morduch).
2004
"Why Should We Care About Child Labor? The Returns to Schooling
vs. the Returns to Experience in Vietnam" (with Kathleen Beegle and
Roberta Gatti).
- National Bureau of
Economic Research Working Paper No. 10980 (December 2004).
- World Bank Policy
Research Working Paper 3479 (January 2005).
- Download the paper: pdf format.
2003
"Labor
Regulation and the (In)efficient (Re)allocation of Resources: Using Energy
Shocks to Measure Growth Opportunities" (with Raymond Fisman).