Debraj Ray
Silver Professor, Faculty of Arts and Science, and Professor of Economics

Co-Editor, American Economic Review

Department of Economics, New York University, 19 West 4th Street, New York, NY 10012, U.S.A.

debraj.ray@nyu.edu, +1-(212)-998-8906

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Some Recent Papers [more]

Gender Differentials in Eye Care: Access and Treatment (with R. Jayaraman and S-Y. Wang), April 2013.

Coalition Formation (with R. Vohra), preliminary, January 2013.

Self-Control and Poverty (with D. Bernheim and S. Yeltekin), January 2013. A link to the 1999 version, which only had numerical results.

Implications of an Economic Theory of Conflict: Hindu-Muslim Violence in India (with A. Mitra), revised September 2012.

The Age Distribution of Missing Women in India, (with S. Anderson), Economic and Political Weekly Vol - XLVII No. 47-48, December (2012).

Missing Women: Age and Disease, (with S. Anderson), and a Web Appendix, Review of Economic Studies 77(4), 1262--1300 (2010).

A Theory of Endogenous Fertility With Occupational Choice (with D. Mookherjee and S. Prina), American Economic Journal (Microeconomics), forthcoming.

Aspirations and Inequality (with G. Genicot), March 2012.

Status, Intertemporal Choice and Risk-Taking (with A. Robson), with a Web Appendix, Econometrica 80, (2012), 1505–1531.

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Ethnicity and Conflict: Theory and Facts (with J. Esteban and L. Mayoral), Science 336, 858 - 865 (2012).

Ethnicity and Conflict: An Empirical Investigation (with J. Esteban and L. Mayoral), with a Web Appendix, American Economic Review 102 (2012), 1310-1342.

Linking Conflict to Inequality and Polarization (with J. Esteban), American Economic Review 101(4), 1345–74 (2011).

A Model of Ethnic Conflict (with J. Esteban), Journal of the European Economic Association 9(3):496–521 (2011).

On the Phelps-Koopmans Theorem (with T. Mitra), Journal of Economic Theory 147 (2012) 833–849.

Uneven Growth: A Framework for Research in Development Economics, Journal of Economic Perspectives 24 (3), Summer, 45--60 (2010).