Professor Dehejia will present his research at 4pm Tuesday April 12th in E530 Dealy. He will present his coauthored NBER paper “From Local to Global: External Validity in a Fertility Natural esperiement. He and coauthors Cristian Pop-Eleches, and Cyrus Samii investigate whether well-identified treatment effects from “reference” sites can be extrapolated to “target” sites of interest. They use use data from 166 country-year censuses to implement the Angrist and Evans (1998) natural experiment: that is, what is the effect two same sex children on future fertility and labor force participation by mothers. Reference-to-target group similarities in education, calendar year, and mothers’ labor force participation matter, whereas geographical differences per se do not. Errors do not approach zero if the available evidence is naively extrapolated, but with sufficient data extrapolation error goes to zero using a model-based approach.
Short Bio: Professor Dehejia‘s research spans econometrics, development economics, labor economics, and public economics, with a focus on empirical microeconomic policy. His research interests include: econometric methods for program evaluation, financial development and growth, financial incentives and fertility decisions, moral hazard and automobile insurance, religion and consumption insurance, and the causes and consequences of child labor. His articles have appeared in The Journal of Law and Economics, The Journal of Human Resources, The Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, the Journal of the American Statistical Association, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Econometrics, the Journal of Public Economics, the Journal of Development Economics, and Economic Development and Cultural Change. Rajeev is a Faculty Research Fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Research Fellow at the Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA), and a Research Network Fellow at CESifo. He is a coeditor of the Journal of Human Resources, and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics and the Journal of the American Statistical Association. Rajeev Dehejia received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1997. He has been on the faculty of the Department of Economics and The Fletcher School at Tufts University and of the Department of Economics and the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, and has held visiting positions at Harvard, Princeton, and the London School of Economics.
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