Rajeev Dehejia is an Associate Professor in the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University, a Research Network Fellow at CESifo, a Research Fellow at IZA, Bonn, and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1997. Previous and visiting appointments include Columbia, Harvard, Princeton, and the London School of Economics. He is a coeditor of The Journal of Human Resources, and an Associate Editor at The Journal of Business and Economic Statistics and The Journal of the American Statistical Association.

His research interests include: econometrics (program evaluation, propensity score and matching methods, and Bayesian applied econometrics), development economics (child labor, microcredit, and financial development and growth), labor economics (financial incentives and fertility decisions), and public economics (religion and consumption insurance)