Rajeev Dehejia

Rajeev Dehejia is a Professor of Economics and Public Policy at New York University's Wagner School of Public Service, with a courtesy appointment in the Department of Economics. He holds significant research affiliations as a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in Cambridge, Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor Economics (IZA) in Bonn, and Research Network Fellow at CESifo in Munich.

His research spans labor economics, development economics, econometrics, and public policy, with a strong focus on causal inference methods, education policy, labor markets in developing economies, and ethical compliance in global supply chains.

Dehejia's publications demonstrate consistent methodological rigor in quasi-experimental design and field experiments, with thematic emphasis on education outcomes, fertility-labor relationships, factory working conditions, and economic development in emerging markets like India, Cambodia, and Vietnam.