Aprajit Mahajan

Aprajit Mahajan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Aprajit's research interests are in development and econometrics with a regional focus on India. His causal research published in reputable peer-reviewed journals includes field-experiments on management practices in large firms and the provision of health-improving technologies in rural India.

Curriculum Vitae

Selected Publications:

“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, A. Scarabosio, S. Maithel, S. Ahmed, M. Mahzab, M.R. Uddin, M. Rahman and

S. Luby), PNAS, 2026, 123(29):e2528388123

“Identification of Time-Inconsistent Models: The Case of Insecticide Treated Nets” (with A. Tarozzi

and Christian Michel), Review of Economic Studies, 2026, rdag018

“Contract Terms, Employment Shocks, and Default in Credit Cards” (with Sara Castellanos, Diego

Jim´enez Hern´andez, Eduardo Prous and Enrique Seira) Review of Economic Studies, 2025, rdaf079

“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 (cover article)

“Do Management Interventions Last: Evidence from India” (with Nick Bloom, David McKenzie and

John Roberts), AEJ: Applied Economics 2020, 12(2):198–219

“Extremum Estimation and Numerical Derivatives” (with H. Hong and D. Nekipelov), Journal of

Econometrics 2015, 188(1):250–263

“Micro-loans, Insecticide-Treated Bednets and Malaria: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled

Trial in Orissa (India)” (with B. Blackburn, D. Kopf, L. Krishnan, A. Tarozzi and J. Yoong),

American Economic Review, 2014, 104(7):1909–41

“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 (Lead Article)

“Why do Firms in Developing Countries Have Low Productivity” (with Nick Bloom, David McKenzie

and John Roberts), American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 2010, 100(2):619–623

“Identification and Estimation of Regression Models with Misclassification”, Econometrica, 2006,

74(3):631–665