Rajeev Dehejia is a professor of public policy in the

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. He is the author of numerous academic articles in econometrics, labor economics, and development economics, including two widely cited papers on the evaluation of

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.Dehejia, Rajeev, and Sadek Wahba, "Propensity Score Matching Methods for Non-Experimental Causal Studies,
Review of Economics and Statistics
Volume 84 (February 2002), pp. 151–161. He graduated in 1988 from

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and in 1992 from

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with th
Governor General's Medal
He completed his Ph.D. in economics from

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in 1997.

References

External links

http://wagner.nyu.edu/Dehejia

http://www.nber.org/~rdehejia
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dehejia, Rajeev 1970 births Living people Canadian economists Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Carleton University alumni New York University faculty