Published Papers (in reverse chronological order of publication)

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).

• forthcoming Journal of Human Resources.
• 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.

 

2008

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

• 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).

• in An Economics Perspective on the Problems of Disadvantaged Youth (Jonathan Gruber, ed), forthcoming, National Bureau of Economic Research.
• 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.

"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).

• Journal of Public Economics, Volume 91 (2007), pp. 259-279.
• National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 11576.
• Download the paper: published version or NBER version.
• 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 to Dehejia and Wahba.
°  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 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.