Rajeev Dehejia is a professor of economics in the Department of Economics and The Fletcher School at Tufts University

Tufts University

Tufts University is a private research university located in Medford/Somerville, near Boston, Massachusetts. It is organized into ten schools, including two undergraduate programs and eight graduate divisions, on four campuses in Massachusetts and on the eastern border of France...

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

Propensity score

In the design of experiments, a propensity score is the probability of a unit being assigned to a particular condition in a study given a set of known covariates...

 evaluation. He graduated in 1988 from Sir Robert Borden High School

Sir Robert Borden High School

Sir Robert Borden High School is a high school located on Greenbank Road in Ottawa, Ontario. Adjacent to the main office of the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board, this school was founded in 1969 and named after the late Conservative Prime Minister of Canada, Robert Borden.Architecturally, the...

 and in 1992 from Carleton University

Carleton University

Carleton University is a comprehensive university located in the capital of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario. The enabling legislation is The Carleton University Act, 1952, S.O. 1952. Founded as a small college in 1942, Carleton now offers over 65 programs in a diverse range of disciplines. Carleton has...

 with the Governor General's Medal. He completed his Ph.D. from Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

in 1997. He has been at Tufts since 2005.

External links

• http://www.nber.org/~rdehejia