Aprajit Mahajan

Publications

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  Contract Terms, Employment Shocks and Credit Card Default
  with Sara Castellanos, Diego Jimenez Hernandez, Eduardo Prous, and Enrique Seira
  Review of Economic Studies, 2025, rdaf079
  NBER WP DOI
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  Reducing Emissions and Air Pollution from Informal Brick Kilns: Evidence from Bangladesh
  with N. Brooks, D. Biswas, S. Maithel, G. Miller, M.R. Uddin, S. Ahmed, M. Mahzab, M. Rahman, and S. Luby
  Science, 2025, 388(6747):609-619
  NBER WP Supplement Cover
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  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
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  Illness and Wage Loss: Longitudinal evidence from India
  with S. Jalota, G. Miller, and A. Shrinivas
  Social Science and Medicine, 2023, 317 (11583)
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  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
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Do Management Interventions Last: Evidence from India
with N. Bloom, D. McKenzie, and J. Roberts
AEJ: Applied Economics, 2020, 12(2): 198-219
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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
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Extremum Estimation and Numerical Derivatives
with Han Hong and D. Nekipelov
Journal of Econometrics, 2015, 188(1): 250-263
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Estimation of Price Elasticities with Non-Linear Errors-in-Variables
Review of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 91(4): 793-805
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Child Nutrition in India in the Nineties
with A. Tarozzi
Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2007, 55(3): 541-586
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Identification and Estimation of Regression Models with Misclassification
Econometrica, 2006, 74(3): 631-665

Working Papers

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  Identification of Time-Inconsistent Models: The Case of Insecticide Treated Nets Accepted
  with A. Tarozzi and Christian Michel
  Accepted at Review of Economic Studies
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  Autonomy and Technology Adoption R&R Journal of Political Economy
  with Ben Bushong, Carolina Corral, Xavi Gine, and Enrique Seira
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  Productivity Gains and Work Conditions in Coercive Labor Markets: Experimental Evidence from the Bangladesh Brick Sector
  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, and S. Luby
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  Intertemporal Choice Bracketing and the Measurement of Time Preferences
  with Yonas Alem and John Loeser
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  Risk Sharing, Commitment Constraints and Self-Help Groups
  with Orazio Attanasio, Anjini Kochar, and Vaishnavi Surendra
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  VAT in Emerging Economies: Does Third Party Verification Matter
  with S. Mittal

Inactive Papers

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

Teaching