Ravi Ram
Biographic Data
| ID | 213828 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ravi Ram |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ravi |
| FAMILY NAME | Ram |
| SIGNATURE | RAM R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Illinois State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2339-6477 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 220 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
PPP GDP Per Capita for Countries of the World
Comparison of GDP Per Capita Data in Penn World Table and World Development Indicators
Government spending and happiness of the population
Further examination of the cross-country association between income inequality and population health
State of the “life span revolution” between 1980 and 2000
Income inequality, poverty, and population health
Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth
Level of Development, Rate of Economic Growth, and Income Inequality
Financial development and economic growth
This note suggests that, contrary to the conclusions reached in several recent studies, the empirical evidence does not support the view that financial development promotes economic growth. It is first noted that the predominant pattern in the data for 95 individual countries is that of a negligible or weakly negative covariation between financial development and growth of real GDP per capita. Second, the individual‐country correlational picture …
Forty Years of the Life Span Revolution
Estimating Reactivity in Direct Observation Studies of Health Behaviors
Direct observation techniques are increasingly being used to measure human behavior as part of health research and intervention studies. One problem with this approach that has not been well-explored is the effect of the observer's presence on the behaviors being observed, the reactivity effect. This article examines reactivity effects in a direct observation study of child care and feeding practices in rural Nepal. Trained field workers conducte…
Tropics and economic development
Reply to the Comment on Rati Ram's Test of the Kuznets Hypothesis
Productivity of public and private investment in developing countries
Level of Development and Rates of Return to Schooling
Economic Development and Income Inequality
Research and Development Expenditures and Economic Growth
Intercountry inequalities in income and basic- needs indicators
Income, Distribution, and Welfare
Educational Expansion and Schooling Inequality
Fairly recent data for about one hundred countries indicate that as the average level of schooling increases, educational inequality first increases and, after reaching a peak, starts declining in later phases of educational expansion. The turning point occurs when average schooling is about seven years. The observed empirical generalization, which seems quite robust, appears to have important implications for educational and distributional polic…
Farm households in rural Burkina Faso
Economic development and income inequality
Wagner's Hypothesis in Time-Series and Cross-Section Perspectives
Rati Ram, Wagner's Hypothesis in Time-Series and Cross-Section Perspectives: Evidence from "Real" Data for 115 Countries, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 69, No. 2 (May, 1987), pp. 194-204
Economic growth and structure of domestic absorption
Exports and Economic Growth in Developing Countries
Composite indices of physical quality of life, basic needs fulfilment, and income
Further examination of the cross-country association between income inequality and population health
Military Expenditures and Economic Growth in Less Developed Countries
Population increase, economic growth, educational inequality, and income distribution
The role of real income level and income distribution in fulfillment of basic needs
PPP GDP Per Capita for Countries of the World
International inequality in the basic needs indicators
Income inequality, poverty, and population health
Exports and Economic Growth in Developing Countries
Comparison of GDP Per Capita Data in Penn World Table and World Development Indicators
State of the “life span revolution” between 1980 and 2000
Economic development and income inequality
Exports and Economic Growth
Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth
Life Span, Health, Savings, and Productivity
Government spending and happiness of the population
Forty Years of the Life Span Revolution
Tropics and economic development
Intercountry inequalities in income and basic- needs indicators
Research and Development Expenditures and Economic Growth
Income, Distribution, and Welfare
Farm households in rural Burkina Faso
Level of Development, Rate of Economic Growth, and Income Inequality
Life Span, Health, Savings, and Productivity
Human and Nonhuman Wealth in Demand-for-Money Functions
Using Kendrick's recently published data on human and nonhuman wealth in the United States, log-linear money demand functions of the "partial adjustment" variety are estimated by introducing in each nonhuman, total, or human wealth as the scale or the "constraint" variable. It is found that the long-run elasticity of money demand with respect to nonhuman wealth is somewhat larger than that with respect to total wealth, and the elasticity with res…
Population and Economic Growth
A critique of the analyses and conclusions reached by a study of the relationships between economic and demographic variables conducted by Hazledine and Moreland published in 1977 is presented. Inappropriate analyses of cross-sectional data from 82 countries resulted in parametric estimates that did not justify the conclusions reached by Hazledine and Moreland. Concerning diminished returns to scale suffered by less developed regions the author f…
Applicability of the permanent income hypothesis to underdeveloped economies
Role of Wealth in Consumption
THE primary purpose of this work is to conduct an empirical investigation concerning the role of in consumption, and to test a few postulates of the wealth theories of consumption. The opportunity for such an investigation is provided by the recent publication by Kendrick (1976) of annual data on human and nonhuihan for the United States for the period 1929-69. Specifically, the paper (a) provides estimates of a consumption function in which a va…
Composite indices of physical quality of life, basic needs fulfilment, and income
International inequality in the basic needs indicators
Product Value as a Determinant of Opec's Official Crude Oil Prices
The Rate of Imitation of a Capital-Embodied Process Innovation, Economica 44 (Feb. 1977), 63-69. Sahal, Devendra, Patterns of Technological Innovation (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1981). Saxonhouse, Gary R., Estimated Parameters as Dependent Variables, American Economic Review 66 (Mar. 1976), 178-183. Theil, Henri, On the Estimation of Relationships Involving Qualitative Variables, American Journal of Sociology 76 (July 1970), 103-154. , Princip…
Causal Ordering Across Inflation and Productivity Growth in The Post-War United States
Population increase, economic growth, educational inequality, and income distribution
The role of real income level and income distribution in fulfillment of basic needs
Conventional and ‘real’ GDP per capita in cross-country studies of production structure
Level and Variability of Inflation
Exports and Economic Growth
Military Expenditures and Economic Growth in Less Developed Countries
Wagner's Hypothesis in Time-Series and Cross-Section Perspectives
Rati Ram, Wagner's Hypothesis in Time-Series and Cross-Section Perspectives: Evidence from "Real" Data for 115 Countries, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 69, No. 2 (May, 1987), pp. 194-204
Economic growth and structure of domestic absorption
Exports and Economic Growth in Developing Countries
Farm households in rural Burkina Faso
Economic development and income inequality
Educational Expansion and Schooling Inequality
Fairly recent data for about one hundred countries indicate that as the average level of schooling increases, educational inequality first increases and, after reaching a peak, starts declining in later phases of educational expansion. The turning point occurs when average schooling is about seven years. The observed empirical generalization, which seems quite robust, appears to have important implications for educational and distributional polic…
Intercountry inequalities in income and basic- needs indicators
Income, Distribution, and Welfare
Research and Development Expenditures and Economic Growth
Economic Development and Income Inequality
Economics (38 works) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (19 works) · Economic growth (18 works) · Mathematics (18 works) · Demography (15 works) · Demographic economics (14 works) · Economic Growth and Productivity (14 works) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Econometrics (13 works)