Aprajit Mahajan

Publications

• Is Model Accuracy Enough? A Field Evaluation Of A Machine Learning Model To Catch Bogus Firms (with T. Barwahwala, S. Mittal, and O. Reich), ACM JCSS, 2024, 2(3):1-43 NBER WP
• Illness and Wage Loss: Longitudinal evidence from India (with S. Jalota, G. Miller, and A. Shrinivas, Social Science and Medicine, 2023, 317 (11583)
• Agreement Between Dried Blood Spots and HemoCue in Tamil Nadu, India (with R. Roshania, R. Mehta, A. Shete, G. Miller, A. Tarozzi, and R. Martorell), Scientific Reports, 2021, 11(9285): 1-11
• Do Management Interventions Last: Evidence from India (with N. Bloom, D. McKenzie, and J. Roberts) AEJ: Applied Economics, 2020, 12(2): 198–219
• Who's Bogus: Learning to Identify Fraudulent Firms with Unbalanced and One-Sided Labelled Tax Return Data (with S. Mittal and O. Reich) ACM, SIGCAS, COMPASS, 2018
• Extremum Estimation and Numerical Derivatives (with Han Hong, and D. Nekipelov) Journal of Econometrics, 2015, 188(1): 250–263
• Micro-Loans, Bednets & Malaria: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial (with B. Blackburn, D. Kopf, L. Krishnan, A. Tarozzi,and J. Yoong) American Economic Review, 2014, 104(7): 1909–1941
• Does Management Matter? Evidence from India (with N.Bloom, B. Eifert, D. McKenzie, and J. Roberts) Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2013, 128(1): 1–51
• Lymphatic Filariasis in Orissa, India: Expanded Endemic Range and A Call to Re-evaluate The Targeting of Mass Drug Administration Programs (with P. Foo, A. Tarozzi, J. Yoong, L. Krishnan, D. Kopf and B. Blackburn) Trans. R. Soc. Trop., 2011, 105(2): 109–114
• Risk, Incentives and Contracts: Partnerships in Rio De Janeiro 1870-1891 (with R. Abramitzky and Z. Frank) Journal of Economic History, 2010, 70(3): 686–715
• Why do Firms in Developing Countries Have Low Productivity (with N. Bloom, D. McKenzie, and J. Roberts) American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 2010, 100(2): 619–623
• Commitment Mechanisms and Compliance with Health-protecting Behavior: Preliminary Evidence from Orissa (India) (with B. Blackburn, A. Tarozzi, and J. Yoong) American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 2009, 99(2): 231–235
• Estimation of Price Elasticities with Non-Linear Errors-in-Variables Review of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 91(4): 793–805
• Child Nutrition in India in the Nineties (with A. Tarozzi) Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2007, 55(3): 541–586
• Identification and Estimation of Regression Models with Misclassification Econometrica, 2006, 74(3): 631–665

Working Papers

• Contract Terms, Employment Shocks and Credit Card Default (2023) (with Sara Castellanos, Diego Jiménez Hernández, Eduardo Prous, and Enrique Seira) conditionally accepted Review of Economic Studies
• Reducing Emissions and Air Pollution from the Informal Brick Sector: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Bangladesh (2024) (with N. Brooks, D. Biswas, S. Maithel, G. Miller, M.R. Uddin, S. Ahmed, M. Mahzab, M. Rahman and S. Luby) accepted
• Identification of Time-Inconsistent Models: The Case of Insecticide Treated Nets (2024) (with A. Tarozzi and Christian Michel) accepted Review of Economic Studies
• A Business Case for Human Rights at Work? Experimental Evidence on Labor Trafficking and Child Labor at Brick Kilns in Bangladesh (2024) (with G. Miller, D. Biswas, K. Babiarz, N. Brooks, J. Brunner, S. Ashraf, J. Shane, S. Maithel, S. Ahmed, M. Mahzab, M.R. Uddin, M. Rahman, S. Luby)
• Intertemporal Choice Bracketing and the Measurement of Time Preferences (2024) (with Yonas Alem and John Loeser)
• Risk Sharing, Commitment Constraints and Self-Help Groups (2023) (with Orazio Attanasio, Anjini Kochar, and Vaishnavi Surendra)
• Appropriate Technology Use and Autonomy: Evidence From Mexico (2022) (with Carolina Corral, Xavi Gine, and Enrique Seira)
• VAT in Emerging Economies: Does Third Party Verification Matter (2017) (with S. Mittal)

Inactive Papers

• Time-Inconsistency and Saving: Experimental Evidence from Low-Income Tax Filers (2015) (with Damon Jones)
• Gradients and Extremum Estimation with U-Statistics (2012) (with Han Hong, and D. Nekipelov)
• Bednets, Information and Malaria in Orissa (2011) (with B. Blackburn, A. Tarozzi, and J. Yoong)
• Estimation of Single-Index Models with Misclassified Regressors (2009)

Teaching

• ARE 251 / Econ 270A (Graduate Development)
• ARE 210 (Graduate Econometrics - First Semester)
• EEP 151 / Econ 171 (Undergraduate Development)