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D-Index
37
Citations
26778
World Ranking
2582
National Ranking
7

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1993 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1989 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 1978 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1976 - Foreign Honorary Member, the American Economic Association
  • 1965 - Fellows of the Econometric Society
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association

Overview

Jean Drèze was affiliated with the University of Delhi in India. Their scholarly work focused on various fields within the social sciences, with particular contributions to political science and international relations, economics and econometrics, statistics and probability, sociology and political science, and soil science.

Their research covered several main topics, including:

  • Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Policy Transfer and Learning
  • Income, Poverty, and Inequality
  • Agricultural Risk and Resilience
  • Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets
  • South Asian Studies and Conflicts

Jean Drèze published in a range of academic venues, with contributions evident in:

  • Review of Development Economics
  • Studies in Microeconomics
  • CASTE / A Global Journal on Social Exclusion
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Global Ethics

Selected recent papers include:

  • "The perils of embedded experiments," 2023, Review of Development Economics
  • "Weighty Evidence? Poverty Estimation with Missing Data," 2024, Studies in Microeconomics
  • "Revolt of the Upper Castes," 2020, CASTE / A Global Journal on Social Exclusion
  • "Pauses and Reversals of Infant Mortality Decline in India in 2017 and 2018," 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "Limitarianism and its limits," 2025, Journal of Global Ethics

Their frequent coauthors included Anmol Somanchi, Aashish Gupta, Sai Ankit Parashar, and Kanika Sharma.

Throughout their career, Jean Drèze was recognized by several academic organizations. Their honors included membership in the National Academy of Sciences (1993), Academia Europaea (1989), fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1978), foreign honorary membership of the American Economic Association (1976), fellowship of the Econometric Society (1965), and election as a fellow of the European Economic Association.

Best Publications

  • Hunger and Public Action

    Jean Drèze;Amartya Kumar Sen

  • India: Economic Development and Social Opportunity

    Jean Drèze;Amartya Kumar Sen

  • Poverty and Inequality in India: A Re-Examination

    Angus Deaton;Jean Drèze

  • India: Development and Participation

    Jean Drèze;Amartya Kumar Sen

  • Food and nutrition in India: facts and interpretations.

    Angus Deaton;Jean Drèze

  • An Uncertain Glory: India and its Contradictions

    Jean Drèze;Amartya Kumar Sen

  • School Participation in Rural India

    Jean Drèze;Geeta Gandhi Kingdon

  • Fertility, Education, and Development: Evidence from India

    Jean Drèze;Mamta Murthi

  • The theory of cost-benefit analysis

    Jean Drèze;Nicholas Stern

  • Social security in developing countries

    Ehtisham Ahmad;Jean Dreze;John Hills;Amartya Sen

  • Widowhood and poverty in rural India: Some inferences from household survey data

    Jean Drèze;P.V. Srinivasan

  • Indian Development: Selected Regional Perspectives

    Jean Dreze;Amartya Sen

  • Future of Mid-Day Meals

    Jean Dreze;Aparajita Goyal

  • Crime, gender, and society in India: insights from homicide data.

    Jean Drèze;Reetika Khera

  • Uttar Pradesh: The Burden of Inertia*

    Jean Drèze;Haris Gazdar

  • Recent Social Security Initiatives in India

    Jean Drèze;Reetika Khera

  • Policy reform, shadow prices, and market prices

    Jean Drèze;Nicholas Stern

  • Chapter 14 The theory of cost-benefit analysis

    Jean Drèze;Nicholas Stern

  • Understanding Leakages in the Public Distribution System

    Jean Drèze;Reetika Khera

  • Famine Prevention in India

    Jean Drèze

  • Hunger and Public Action. By Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. 373p. $45.00.

    Howard Tolley;Jean Dreze;Amartya Sen

Frequent Co-Authors

Amartya Sen
Amartya Sen Harvard University
Angus Deaton
Angus Deaton Princeton University
Nicholas Stern
Nicholas Stern London School of Economics and Political Science
Peter Lanjouw
Peter Lanjouw Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Jean-Marie Baland
Jean-Marie Baland University of Namur
Geeta Kingdon
Geeta Kingdon University College London
Maitreesh Ghatak
Maitreesh Ghatak London School of Economics and Political Science
Pranab Bardhan
Pranab Bardhan University of California, Berkeley
Dilip Mookherjee
Dilip Mookherjee Boston University

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