Full-Time Faculty

Rajeev Dehejia

Rajeev Dehejia joined our department in 2006 as an Associate Professor. Professor Dehejia received a B.A. with highest honors from Carleton University (Ontario, Canada) in 1992 and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard in 1997. Before joining Tufts he served as Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) of Columbia University. He is a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and held visiting professorships at Harvard, New York University, and Princeton. Professor Dehejia has produced contributions to several areas of economic research, including applied econometrics, labor economics, development economics, and the economic analysis of microfinance. His widely-cited work has been published in top academic journals, such as the Journal of the American Statistical Association, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Econometrics, the Journal of Public Economics, the Journal of Development Economics, and others. He has developed new methods for program evaluation, and provided important insights on the evaluation of job training and work-to-welfare programs, right-to-work laws, child health and child labor issues, financial development and growth, microcredit and saving, the welfare effects of religious organizations, and other topics of major relevance from a public policy and social perspective.
 

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