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#85

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PhD Economics Cornell University
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According to Wikipedia, Debraj Ray is an Indian-American economist, who is currently teaching and working at New York University. His research interests focus on development economics and game theory. Ray served as Co-editor of the American Economic Review between 2012 and 2020.

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Published Works

On the Measurement of Polarization (1994) (1594)
Polarization: Concepts, Measurement, Estimation (2003) (558)
Conflict and Distribution (1999) (557)
Aspirations, Poverty and Economic Change (2002) (517)
A Theory of Endogenous Coalition Structures (1998) (489)
Equilibrium Binding Agreements (1997) (468)
Ethnicity and Conflict: An Empirical Study (2012) (449)
A Game-Theoretic Perspective on Coalition Formation (2007) (400)
Inequality as a Determinant of Malnutrition and Unemployment : Theory (2007) (397)
Linking Conflict to Inequality and Polarization (2011) (390)
Cooperation in Community Interaction Without Information Flows (1996) (387)
A noncooperative theory of coalitional bargaining (1993) (358)
Collective Action and the Group Size Paradox (2001) (339)
On the Salience of Ethnic Conflict (2008) (329)
A Concept of Egalitarianism under Participation Constraints (1989) (329)
Inequality as a Determinant of Malnutrition and Unemployment: Policy (1986) (312)
Informal Insurance in Social Networks (2004) (298)
Aspirations and Inequality (2014) (279)
Coalition formation as a dynamic process (2003) (263)
An Extension of a Measure of Polarization, with an application to the income distribution of five OECD countries (2007) (258)
Missing Women: Age and Disease (2010) (255)
Credit Rationing in Developing Countries: An Overview of the Theory (2000) (249)
Group Formation in Risk-Sharing Arrangements (2003) (248)
Collective Dynamic Consistency in Repeated Games (1989) (248)
Polarization, Fractionalization and Conflict (2007) (241)
Renegotiation in Repeated Games (2006) (219)
Farsighted network formation (2005) (214)
Inequality, Control Rights, and Rent Seeking: Sugar Cooperatives in Maharashtra (2001) (213)
Evolving Aspirations and Cooperation (1998) (212)
Poverty and Self-Control (2013) (208)
Implications of an Economic Theory of Conflict: Hindu-Muslim Violence in India (2013) (194)
Coalitional Power and Public Goods (2001) (185)
A Model of Ethnic Conflict (2011) (176)
THE TIME STRUCTURE OF SELF-ENFORCING AGREEMENTS (2002) (151)
Contractual Structure and Wealth Accumulation (2002) (148)
Ethnicity and Conflict: Theory and Facts (2012) (137)
Inequality, Lobbying and Resource Allocation (2006) (124)
The Farsighted Stable Set (2013) (115)
CONFLICT AND DEVELOPMENT (2017) (112)
Uneven Growth: A Framework for Research in Development Economics (2010) (108)
Vertical Links Between Formal and Informal Financial Institutions (1997) (107)
Adapting to Undernourishment: The Clinical Evidence and Its Implications (1987) (100)
A CONCEPT OF EGALITARIANISM UNDER PARTICIPATION (1989) (95)
Aspirations, Segregation, and Occupational Choice (2010) (89)
India’s lockdown: an interim report (2020) (87)
Information and Enforcement in Informal Credit Markets (2016) (86)
Nonpaternalistic intergenerational altruism (1987) (83)
A consistent bargaining set (1989) (83)
Economic Growth with Intergenerational Altruism (1987) (83)
Dynamic equilibria with unemployment due to undernourishment (1993) (81)
Aspiration-Based Reinforcement Learning in Repeated Interaction Games: an Overview (2001) (73)
Choice Shifts in Groups: A Decision-Theoretic Basis (2006) (67)
History and Coordination Failure (1998) (67)
Certified Random: A New Order for Co-Authorship (2016) (63)
Is Equality Stable (2002) (62)
Coalition Formation with Binding Agreements (2007) (61)
The Age Distribution of Missing Women in India (2012) (59)
Status, Intertemporal Choice and Risk-Taking (2012) (58)
Readings in the theory of economic development (1999) (58)
Contracts and Externalities: How Things Fall Apart (2003) (56)
Contracts With Eviction in Infinitely Repeated Principal–Agent Relationships (1991) (55)
What's New in Development Economics? (2000) (53)
Constrained egalitarian allocations (1991) (49)
Inequality and Inefficiency in Joint Projects (2007) (49)
Endogenous Group Formation in Risk-Sharing Arrangements (2002) (49)
Credible coalitions and the core (1989) (44)
Comparing Polarization Measures (2012) (44)
Self-Control, Saving, and the Low Asset Trap (1999) (42)
Reinforcement Learning in Repeated Interaction Games (2001) (40)
On the competitive pressure created by the diffusion of innovations (1991) (39)
Markov perfect equilibria in altruistic growth economies with production uncertainty (1989) (39)
Aspiration-Based Reinforcement Learning in Repeated Games: An Overview (2001) (38)
Nit-Piketty: A Comment on Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty First Century (2015) (37)
Labor tying (2002) (37)
Dynamic optimization on a non-convex feasible set: Some general results for non-smooth technologies (1984) (37)
Why does asset inequality affect unemployment? A study of the demand composition problem (1991) (36)
Internally Renegotiation-Proof Equilibrium Sets: Limit Behavior with Low Discounting (1994) (36)
Interlinkages and the Pattern of Competition (1989) (35)
Beyond Nandigram: Industrialisation in West Bengal (2007) (35)
Anatomy of a Contract Change (2014) (34)
The economics of orchards: An exercise in point-input, flow-output capital theory☆ (1991) (33)
OCCUPATIONAL DIVERSITY AND ENDOGENOUS INEQUALITY (2005) (33)
Reciprocity in Groups and the Limits to Social Capital (2007) (32)
Social decision rules are not immune to conflict (2001) (31)
INEQUALITY AND MARKETS: Some Implications of Occupational Diversity (2010) (30)
Group Decision-Making in the Shadow of Disagreement (2004) (30)
Maximality in the Farsighted Stable Set (2018) (29)
A Comparison of Polarization Measures (2007) (29)
Aspirations and Economic Behavior (2020) (28)
LEARNING, ADAPTATION, AND CLIMATE UNCERTAINTY: EVIDENCE FROM INDIAN AGRICULTURE (2017) (27)
Inequality as a Determinant of Malnutrition and Unemployment, II. Policy Options (1987) (26)
Bargaining Power and Enforcement in Credit Markets (2006) (26)
Chapter 5 – Coalition Formation (2015) (25)
Decoding India's Low Covid-19 Case Fatality Rate (2020) (24)
A Remark on Color‐Blind Affirmative Action (2010) (24)
Satisficing and Selection in Electoral Competition (2006) (24)
India&Apos;S Lockdown: An Interim Report (2020) (22)
Egalitarianism and Incentives (1996) (21)
A Theory of Occupational Choice with Endogenous Fertility (2012) (21)
Aspirations, adaptive learning and cooperation in repeated games (1994) (20)
Missing Unmarried Women (2015) (20)
Introduction to development theory (2007) (20)
Game-Theoretical Applications to Economics and Operations Research (1997) (19)
Wages and involuntary unemployment in the slack season of a village economy (1991) (18)
Inequality, control Rights and Rent Seeking - A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Sugar Cooperatives in Maharashtra (1997) (18)
India's Lockdown* (2021) (18)
Altruistic growth economies (1983) (18)
Wealth constraints, lobbying and the efficiency of public allocation (2000) (17)
Aspirations and the Development Treadmill (2016) (16)
How Rational are your Choice Data? (2010) (15)
On the Existence of Markov-Consistent Plans under Production Uncertainty (1986) (15)
Collusive Market Structure under Learning-by-Doing and Increasing Returns (1991) (14)
A Dynamic Incentive-Based Argument for Conditional Transfers (2008) (13)
Games of Love and Hate (2018) (12)
On the Phelps-Koopmans theorem (2012) (11)
Social Networks and Informal Insurance (2004) (11)
Coalition Formation (2013) (11)
Informal Insurance, Enforcement Constraints, and Group Formation (2004) (11)
On the dynamics of inequality (2006) (10)
Growth, Automation and the Long Run Share of Labor (2020) (10)
Conveying Value via Categories (2021) (10)
Efficient and optimal programs when investment is irreversible: A duality theory (1983) (9)
Decoding India&Apos;S Low Covid-19 Case Fatality Rate (2020) (9)
Monetary equilibrium in an overlapping generations model with productive capital (1993) (8)
Robert W. Rosenthal (2003) (8)
Labor Markets, Adaptive Mechanisms and Nutritional Status (1992) (8)
Spurious Regressions and Panel IV Estimation: Revisiting the Causes of Conflict (2021) (8)
Inequality, malnutrition and unemployment : a critique of the competitive market mechanism (1984) (8)
Social Interactions and Segregation in Skill Accumulation (2010) (7)
Information aggregation in a financial market with general signal structure (2019) (7)
Groups in conflict: size matters, but not in the way you think (2017) (6)
On Some Implications of Backward Discounting (2015) (6)
A Decision-Theoretic Basis for Choice Shifts in Groups (2004) (6)
Intertemporal borrowing to sustain exogenous consumption standards under uncertainty (1984) (5)
Excess Female Mortality in Africa (2018) (5)
Productivity Response to a Contract Change (2014) (5)
Capital and Inequality in the Long Run : Automation Without Technical Progress (2018) (5)
Establishment of a fish sanctuary for conserving indigenous fishes in the largest freshwater swamp forest of Bangladesh: A community-based management approach (2022) (5)
Feasible alternatives under deteriorating terms of trade (1982) (5)
Correction to: India’s lockdown: an interim report (2020) (4)
Choice Shifts in Groups (2004) (4)
Noisy Agents (2018) (4)
Essays in intertemporal economics (1983) (4)
Direct and Indirect Linkages Between Formal and Informal Financial Institutions: An Analytical Approach (1993) (4)
03-01 Polarization : Concepts , Measurement , Estimation (2002) (4)
The Phelps-Koopmans theorem and potential optimality (2010) (4)
Inequality, Malnutrition and Unemployment (1985) (4)
Repeated Principal-Agent Games with Eviction (1989) (4)
Determinants of Social Conflict (2013) (3)
An Economic Theory of Malnutrition (1986) (3)
Poverty and Disequalization (2010) (3)
Working paper Gender Differentials in the Seeking of Eye Care (2013) (3)
Efficient Monetary Equilibrium: An Overlapping Generations Model with Nonstationary Monetary Policies (1994) (3)
Political Quotas and Governance (2020) (2)
A Theory of Endogenous Fertility with Occupational Choice (2012) (2)
Inequality and Public Resource Allocation (2003) (2)
Gender Differentials in Eye Care: Access and Treatment (2014) (2)
Hindu-Muslim Violence in India: A Postscript from the Twenty-First Century (2019) (2)
The Price of Gold : Dowry and Death in India ∗ May 5 , 2018 (2018) (2)
Signaling and Discrimination in Collaborative Projects (2021) (2)
Aspirations: A Review (2019) (2)
Choice Shifts in Groups and the Allais Paradox (2004) (2)
Engendered access or engendered care?: Evidence from a major Indian Hospital (2014) (2)
HINDU-MUSLIM VIOLENCE IN INDIA: A Postscript From the 21st Century BY ANIRBAN MITRA (2018) (2)
Profitability and Concentration (1992) (1)
Theoretical Issues in Economic Development (1993) (1)
Do not dilute NREGA (2014) (1)
Why does asset inequality affect (1991) (1)
Reinforcement Behavior in Repeated Games (1998) (1)
Survival, Growth and Technical Progress in a Small Resource-Importing Economy (1984) (1)
Excess capacity and entry deterrence (1991) (1)
Strong Egalitarian Allocations (1988) (1)
Occupational Diversity and Endogenous Inequality Dilip Mookherjee (2004) (1)
Too Good to Be True? Retention Rules for Noisy Agents (2023) (1)
A Principal-Agent Relationship with No Advantage to Commitment (2021) (1)
Inequality, Public Allocation and Development: Conflictual and Allocative Losses (2000) (1)
Groups in conflict: Private and public prizes (2021) (1)
Satisficing and Selection in Electoral Competition 1 (2004) (1)
An Infinite Extensive Form (2006) (1)
Game Theory and Economic Applications, Proceedings (1992) (1)
Dynamic Coalition Formation from a Bargaining Perspective (2004) (1)
The Functioning of Cooperatives Under Renegotioation. (1990) (1)
Inefficiency and the Golden Rule: Phelps-Koopmans Revisited (2012) (0)
Learning-by- Doing and Industrial Competition (1991) (0)
Online Appendix for ASPIRATIONS AND INEQUALITY (2016) (0)
Persistent Inequality Dilip Mookherjee (2001) (0)
Binding Agreements II: Coalition Formation (2006) (0)
Chapter 3: Economic Growth (1998) (0)
Recent Discussion Papers Page # 168 Who Is Punishing Corrupt Politicians – Voters or the Central Government ? Evidence from the Brazilian Anti-Corruption Program 2 (2008) (0)
Focus A HistoricAl ApproAcH to property , inequAlity And debt : reflections on Capital in the 21 (2015) (0)
Chapter 7: Inequality and Development: Interconnections (1998) (0)
INSTABILITY , INEQUALITY , AND ENDOGENOUS CLUSTERING Is Equality Stable ? (2002) (0)
Ingredients for a Theory of Agreements (2007) (0)
Increasing Returns, Economic Growth and Decentralization (1990) (0)
Informal Insurance , Enforcement Constraints , and Group Formation Garance Genicot (2003) (0)
Chapter 18: Multilateral Approaches to Trade Policy (1998) (0)
Inefficiency and the Golden Rule (2014) (0)
Chapter 5: History, Expectations, and Development (1998) (0)
SUSAN KEEVIL (ed.): On Bordeaux: Tales of the Unexpected from the World's Greatest Wine Region, with an Introduction by Jane Anson. Académie du Vin Library (Simon McMurtrie), Ascot, Berkshire UK, 2021, 288 pp. ISBN 978-1913141059 (hardcover), $45. (2021) (0)
Irreversible Agreements: Symmetric Games (2007) (0)
Evidence from a major Indian hospital engendered access or engendered care (2014) (0)
Discounted Dynamic Programming under Certainty 1 The Basic Model (2005) (0)
Immediate Listing of Business on Google Maps with Abstract Business Listing using a Mobile Application (2014) (0)
A HistoricAl ApproAcH to property , inequAlity And debt : reflections on Capital in the 21 st Century tHomAs piketty * (2015) (0)
EC516 Contracts and Organisations, LSE 2. Lecture Notes on Binding Agreements (2005) (0)
On the Economic Theory of Quantity Controls (1992) (0)
Maximality in the Farsighted Stable Set 1 (2017) (0)
Sepentinized Peridotite Spinel Composition: Northern Central Indian Ridge at 639 (2005) (0)
History and Coordination Failure * Alícia Adserà (1998) (0)
Institute for Research on Poverty Discussion Papers Dynamic Equilibria with Unemployment Due to Undernourishment (0)
ECONOMIC INEQUALITY, POLARIZATION AND CONFLICT (2022) (0)
Chapter 8: Poverty and Undernutrition (1998) (0)
Irreversible Agreements: The General Case (2007) (0)
Reversible Agreements Without Externalities (2007) (0)
Please weight: when confronted by a large Indian statistic, divide by population (2014) (0)
Apples and Oranges: Building a Better Dow (2012) (0)
On Decentralization Under Increasing Returns (1992) (0)
A Framework for Reversible Agreements (2007) (0)
Debraj Ray Economic Development Fall 2005 Sketches of Answers to Problem Sets (2002) (0)
Attack on presidency university, Kolkata (2013) (0)
Civil conflicts, ethnicity and development (2016) (0)
Involuntary Unemployment in a Village Economy During the Slack Season (1992) (0)
A Characterization of Infinite Horizon Optimality in Terms of Finite Horizon Optimality and a Critical Stock Condition (2015) (0)
ARTI CLE Debraj Ray On the dynamics of inequality (2005) (0)
TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE? (2022) (0)
Chapter 9: Population Growth and Economic Development (1998) (0)
The Blocking Approach in Real Time (2007) (0)
Labour Markets, Adaptive Mechanisms, and Nutritional Status (2019) (0)
Trading Votes for Votes. A Dynamic Theory1 (2017) (0)
NOISY AGENTS: SUPPLEMENTARY APPENDIX (2018) (0)
Coalitions, Cooperation and Noncooperation (2007) (0)
Inequality, Public Allocation and Development: A Characterization of Equilibria (2000) (0)

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