rajeev dehejia: working papers

Published Papers
(in reverse chronological order of publication)

2022

"Information, Preferences, and Household Demand for School Value Added" with Robert Ainsworth, Cristian Pop-Eleches, and Miguel Urquiola.

American Economic Review, Volume 114, Number 4, pp. 1049-82.
Revised Working paper and online appendix.
National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 28267.
Non-technical summary on VoxEU.
Twitter thread. by Miguel Urquiola
Podcast disucssion on The Correction: A Podcast.

"Financial Development and Occupational Choice: Evidence from India" with Nandini Gupta.

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Volume 57, Issue 5 (August 2022), pp. 1834-1861.
NYU Wagner Research Paper No. 249551.
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2021

”The Effect of Fertility on Mothers' Labor Supply over the Last Two Centuries” with Dan Aaronson, Andrew Jordan, Cristian Pop-Eleches, Cyrus Samii, and Karl Schulze.

Economic Journal, Volume 131 (Issue 633), pp. 1-32. (published version).
Final version, including online appendices, figures, and tables.
National Bureau of Economic Reseach Working Paper No. 23,717.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10,559.
Non-technical summary on VoxEU.

"From Local to Global: External Validity in a Fertility Natural Experiment" with Cristian Pop-Eleches and Cyrus Samii.

Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Volume 39 (Number 1), pp. 217-243.
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A non-technical summary of our findings at the LSE’s International Growth Centre’s blog.
National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 21,459 (August 2015).
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9300 (August 2015).
NYU Wagner Research Papaer No. 2647649 (August 2015).
CESifo Working Paper No. 5493 (August 2015).

"Working Conditions and Factory Survival: Evidence from Better Factories Cambodia" with Drusilla Brown and Raymond Robertson.

Review of Development Studies, Volume 25, Issue 1 (February 2021), pp. 228-254.
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Previously circulated as Better Work Discussion Paper No.4.
Previously circulated as "Is there an Efficiency Case for International Labor Standards?", with Drusilla Brown and Raymond Robertson. paper in pdf format.

2017

”Local Instruments, Global Extrapolation: External Validity of the Labor Supply - Fertility - Local Average Treatment Effect” with James Bisbee, Cristian Pop-Eleches, and Cyrus Samii.

Journal of Labor Economics, Volume 35 (Number S1), pp. S99-S147.
National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 21,663 (October 2015).
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”Do Rewards Reinforce the Growth Mindset? Joint Effects of the Growth Mindset and Incentive Schemes in a Field Intervention,” with Melody Chao, Sujata Visaria, and Anirban Mukhopadhyay.

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Volume 146 (Number 10), pp. 1402-1419.
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"Do Factory Managers Know What Workers Want? Manager-Worker Information Asymmetries and Pareto Optimal Working Conditions" , with George Domat, Paris Adler, Drusilla Brown and Raymond Robertson.

Asian Development Review, Volume 34 (Number 1), pp. 65-87. Download manuscript in pdf format.
Better Work Discussion Paper No. 10. Download manuscript in pdf format.

2016

"Unintended Negative Consequences of Rewards for Student Attendance: Results from a Field Experiment in Indian Classrooms" with Melody Chao, Aniran Mukhopadhyay, and Sujata Visaria.

Economics of Education Review, Volume 54 (October 2016), pp. 173-184.
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Coverage of the paper on NPR’s blog.

"Trade Liberalization in Manufacturing and Accelerated Growth in Services in India" with Arvind Panagariya.

Economic Development and Cultural Change, Volume 64 (Number 2, January 2016), pp. 221-264. Download the updated manuscript in pdf format.
National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 19223. Download manuscript in pdf format.

2015

"The Impact of income and non-income shocks on child labour: Evidence from a panel survey of Tanzania " with Amarakoon Bandara and Shaheen Lavie-Rouse.

World Development, Volume 67, pp. 218-237.
UNU-WIDER Working Paper 2004/118.
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"Experimental and Non-Experimental Methods in Development Economics: A Porous Dialectic".

Journal of Globalization and Development, Volume 6 (Number 1), pp. 47-69.
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2014

"Factory Decisions to Become Noncompliant with Labor Standards: Evidence from Better Factories Cambodia" with Drusilla Brown and Raymond Robertson.

in Amy Luinstra, John Pickles and Arianni Rossi (eds.), Toward Better Work, New York and London: International Labour Organization and Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
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"Regulations, Monitoring, and Working Conditions: Evidence from Better Factories Cambodia and Better Work Vietnam" with Drusilla Brown and Raymond Robertson.

in Deidre McCann, Sengheon Lee, Patrick Besler, Collin Fenwick, John Howe, and Malte Luebker (eds.), Creative Labor Regulation: Indeterminacy and Protection in an Uncertain World, New York and London: International Labour Organization and Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
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2013

"Is There a Business Case For Improving Labor Standards? Some Evidence from Better Factories Cambodia" with Drusilla Brown and Raymond Robertson.

in Jennifer Bair, Marsha Dickson, and Doug Miller (eds.), Worker's Rights and Labor Compliance in Global Supply Chains: Is a Social Label the Answer? New York: Routledge, 2013, Chapter 4.
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"Do Financial Incentives Affect Fertility?" (with Alma Cohen).

Review of Economics and Statistics, Volume 95 (Number 1, March 2013), pp. 1-20 (lead article).
National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 13700 (December 2007).
An updated manuscript (March 2011).
An article in The New York Times Freaknomics Blog.
An article in Calcalist (in Hebrew).

2012

"Do Interest Rates Matter? Credit Demand in the Dhaka Slums" (with Heather Montgomery and Jonathan Morduch).

Journal of Development Economics, Volume 97 (Number 2, March 2012), pp. 437-449.
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"Services Growth in India: A Look Inside the Black Box" with Arvind Panagariya.

in Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya (eds.), Reforms and Economic Transformation in India, New York: Oxford University Press, 2012, Chapter 4.
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"Entrepreneurship in Services and Socially Disadvantaged in India" with Arvind Panagariya.

in Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya (eds.), Reforms and Economic Transformation in India, New York: Oxford University Press, 2012, Chapter 10.
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"Public Disclosure, Reputation Sensitivity, and Labor Law Compliance: Evidence from Better Factories Cambodia" (with Debra Ang, Drusilla Brown, and Raymond Robertson).

Review of Development Economics, Volume 16 (Number 4 ,November 2012), Special Issue: Informality, Illegality, and Enforcement, Ravi Kanbur, Sajal Lahirin, and Jan Svejnar (eds.), pp. 594-607.
A previous version appeared as "Labour Law Compliance and Human Resource Management Innovation: Better Factories Cambodia", Better Work Discussion Paper No. 1.
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2009

"Why Should We Care About Child Labor? The Returns to Schooling vs. the Returns to Experience in Vietnam" (with Kathleen Beegle and Roberta Gatti).

Journal of Human Resources, Volume 44 (Number 4, Fall 2009),pp. 871-889.
National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 10980 (December 2004).
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 3479 (January 2005).
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"The Role of Religious and Social Organizations in the Lives of Disadvantaged Youth" (with Thomas DeLeire and Erzo Luttmer, and Josh Mitchell).

in The Problems of Disadvantaged Youth: An Economic Perspective (Jonathan Gruber, ed), Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009, for the National Bureau of Economic Research, Chapter 8.
reprinted with edits in The Cultural Matrix: Understanding Black Youth (Orlando Patterson and Ethan Fosse, eds.), Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014.
National Bureau of Economics Research Working Paper No. 13369.
Download the paper: NBER version.
Recent articles in The Boston Globe and The New York Times Freakonomics Blog.

2008

"When is ATE Enough? Rules of Thumb and Decision Analysis in Evaluating Training Programs".

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.
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2007

"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).
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"Insuring Consumption and Happiness Through Religious Organizations" (with Thomas DeLeire and Erzo Luttmer).

Journal of Public Economics, Volume 91 (Numbers 1-2), pp. 259-279.
National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 11576.
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Recent articles in The New York Times, Boston Globe, and Christian Science Monitor.

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:

Smith and Todd's response

My reply,

Smith and Todd's rejoinder

My final thoughts

"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).

Review of Economics and Statistics, Volume 84 (February 2002), pp. 151-161; published version.
National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 6829 (December 1998).

Data available for download

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

tables

Data available for download.

Working Papers and Work in Progress

2022

”Evaluating Ex Ante Counterfactual Predictions Using Ex Post Causal Inference” with Michael Gechter, Cyrus Samii, and Cristian Pop-Eleches.

Work in progress; current manuscript available here.

”Evaluating Model and Expert-Opinion Forecasts from an Experiment using Six Replications”, in progress, with Michael Gechter, Jonathan Moduch, Cristian Pop-Eleches, Alejandro Sanchez Beccera, Cyrus Samii, Jean Lee, Saravana Ravindran, and Abu Shonchoy.

”Structural Transformation in a Changing Climate”, in progress, withJosh Merfeld.

Discontinued or incorporated into other papers ---

2015: ”Are Sweatshops Profit Maximizing? Evidence from Better Work Vietnam,” with George Domat, Paris Adler, Drusilla Brown, and Raymond Robertson.Better Work Discussion Paper No. 7. Download the paper in pdf format.
2012: "Retrogression in Working Conditions: Evidence from Better Factories Cambodia" with Drusilla Brown and Raymond Robertson.Better Work Discussion Paper No.6. Download the paper in pdf format.
2009: "Work and Marriage: Child Labor, Marriage Matches, and Bride Prices in Rural Tanzania" with Roberta Gatti and Kathleen Beegle. Preliminary manuscript.
2007: "The Long-Run Consequences of Child Labor: Evidence from Longitudinal Data in Tanzania" with Kathleen Beegle, Roberta Gatti, and Sofya Krutikova. Preliminary manuscript.
2003: "Labor Regulation and the (In)efficient (Re)allocation of Resources: Using Energy Shocks to Measure Growth Opportunities" with Raymond Fisman. Download the paper: pdf format.