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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1997 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1993 - Fellows of the Econometric Society

Overview

Debraj Ray is affiliated with New York University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Within these domains, Debraj Ray's work concentrates on subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research, Management Science and Operations Research, and Political Science and International Relations.

Their research topics cover a range of areas such as Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies, Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies, Income, Poverty, and Inequality, Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies, Game Theory and Applications, Political Conflict and Governance, and Economic theories and models.

Debraj Ray has published research in various venues with multiple contributions to the following outlets:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal (7 publications)
  • Indian Economic Review (2 publications)
  • American Economic Review (2 publications)
  • Annual Review of Economics (1 publication)
  • Journal of Development Economics (1 publication)

Notable recent papers include:

  • India's lockdown: an interim report (2020) in Indian Economic Review
  • Aspirations and Economic Behavior (2020) in Annual Review of Economics
  • Measuring Upward Mobility (2023) in American Economic Review
  • Signaling and Discrimination in Collaborative Projects (2022) in American Economic Review
  • Groups in conflict: Private and public prizes (2021) in Journal of Development Economics

Their frequent co-authors include Garance Genicot, Paula Onuchic, Laura Mayoral, Francisco J. Espinosa-Faller, and S. Subramanian.

Throughout their career, Debraj Ray has received several recognitions including being named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016, a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1997, and a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 1993.

Best Publications

  • ON THE MEASUREMENT OF POLARIZATION

    Joan-Maria Esteban;Debraj Ray

  • Polarization: Concepts, measurement, estimation

    Jean Yves Duclos;Joan Esteban;Debraj Ray

  • Aspirations, Poverty and Economic Change

    Debraj Ray

  • Conflict and Distribution

    Joan Esteban;Debraj Ray;Debraj Ray

  • Ethnicity and Conflict: An Empirical Study †

    Joan Esteban;Laura Mayoral;Debraj Ray

  • Inequality as a Determinant of Malnutrition and Unemployment: Policy

    Partha Dasgupta;Debraj Ray

  • Aspirations and Inequality

    Garance Genicot;Debraj Ray;Debraj Ray

  • Linking Conflict to Inequality and Polarization

    Joan Esteban;Debraj Ray

  • A Theory of Endogenous Coalition Structures

    Debraj Ray;Debraj Ray;Rakesh V. Vohra

  • Equilibrium Binding Agreements

    Debraj Ray;Debraj Ray;Rajiv Vohra;Rajiv Vohra

  • An Extension of a Measure of Polarization, with an application to the income distribution of five OECD countries

    Joan Esteban;Carlos Gradín;Debraj Ray;Debraj Ray

  • Cooperation in Community Interaction Without Information Flows

    Parikshit Ghosh;Debraj Ray

  • A Game-Theoretic Perspective on Coalition Formation

    Debraj Ray

  • On the Salience of Ethnic Conflict

    Joan Esteban;Debraj Ray

  • A noncooperative theory of coalitional bargaining

    Kalyan Chatterjee;Bhaskar Dutta;Debraj Ray;Kunal Sengupta

  • A Concept of Egalitarianism Under Participation Constraints

    Bhaskar Dutta;Bhaskar Dutta;Debraj Ray;Debraj Ray

  • Economía del desarrollo

    Debraj Ray

  • Collective Action and the Group Size Paradox

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  • Poverty and Self‐Control

    B. Douglas Bernheim;Debraj Ray;Şevin Yeltekin

  • Polarization, Fractionalization and Conflict ∗

    Joan Esteban;Debraj Ray

  • Informal insurance in social networks

    Francis Bloch;Garance Genicot;Debraj Ray;Debraj Ray

Frequent Co-Authors

Dilip Mookherjee
Dilip Mookherjee Boston University
Bhaskar Dutta
Bhaskar Dutta University of Warwick
Partha Dasgupta
Partha Dasgupta University of Cambridge
Tapan Mitra
Tapan Mitra Cornell University
B. Douglas Bernheim
B. Douglas Bernheim Stanford University
Maitreesh Ghatak
Maitreesh Ghatak London School of Economics and Political Science
Jean-Marie Baland
Jean-Marie Baland University of Namur
Pranab Bardhan
Pranab Bardhan University of California, Berkeley
Francis Bloch
Francis Bloch Pantheon-Sorbonne University

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