Ranjan Ray
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3696726 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ranjan Ray |
| PRENOMES | Ranjan |
| SOBRENOME | Ray |
| ASSINATURA | RAY R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0411-6268 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 75 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1980 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Do shared history and language synchronise fertility rates between regions across countries? Evidence from India and Bangladesh
Social and emotional well‐being and economic insecurity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders
This study examines the relative deprivation in the mental health, henceforth referred to as ‘social and emotional well‐being (SEWB)’, of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in relation to non‐Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. The study uses the multidimensional deprivation methodology to quantify the deprivation in SEWB. The results show wide variation in the relative deprivation of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders peopl…
Coal Plants, Air Pollution and Anaemia
We examine the impact of pollution from coal–fired power units on the anaemic status of children and women in India. The number of coal units in the district at the time of birth significantly increases the incidence of anaemia in young children as does in utero exposure. The number of coal units in the district also adversely affects the anaemic status of women, although the magnitude of impact is smaller than that for young children. The impact…
Progressivity and redistributive effects of income taxes
Regionally disaggregated estimates of global income inequality with evidence on sensitivity to purchasing power parity
The period spanned by the last decade of the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st century has been characterised by political and economic developments on a scale rarely witnessed before. This study on inequality within and between countries is based on a data set constructed from household unit records in over 80 countries collected from a variety of data sources and covering over 80% of the world’s population. The departures include it…
Do in Utero Shocks Have Adverse Effects on Child Health Outcomes and Can Welfare Schemes Ameliorate Such Effects? Evidence From Andhra Pradesh, India
This study aimed to assess whether shocks experienced by children in the mother’s womb can have an adverse effect on their future health, and whether these effects can be ameliorated by government welfare schemes. Data were taken from three phases of the Young Lives Survey carried out in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh in 2002, 2007 and 2009–2010. Different types of in utero shock were distinguished from the data. Using ordinary least squares …
How Does Child Disadvantage Change with Age? An Analysis of Australian Children
This paper applies a dynamic multidimensional measure of disadvantage to examine how the nature and extent of disadvantage experienced by a child can vary throughout their childhood. We use two longitudinal datasets to track a cohort of Australian children from around 4 to at least 10 years of age, comparing the experiences of Indigenous children to the broader Australian child population. Our analysis confirms that Indigenous children not only e…
A Multidimensional Dynamic Measure of Child Disadvantage
The Link between Preferences, Prices, Inequality, and Poverty
This paper documents the shift in the literature on prices from being exclusively a macro-topic featuring in the study of inflation, national income accounting, and cross-country income comparisons to one that is firmly rooted in micro-involving economic analysis of household behaviour, welfare, and the distributional implications of changes in relative prices. This paper brings together results from some of the recent studies on Indian National …
Preferences, Spatial Prices and Inequality
This study examines the effect of prices on inequality in rural India during the period of economic reforms and beyond (1999/2000–2009/2010). It proposes a framework for calculating ‘exact’ price indices, based on the ‘Exact Affine Stone Index’ (EASI) demand system, and shows its usefulness by calculating spatial prices and regionally varying temporal prices that allow for both differences in preferences between states and over time. The study fi…
Estimates of Spatial Prices in India and Their Sensitivity to Alternative Estimation Methods and Choice of Commodities
Determinants of Pregnancy and Induced and Spontaneous Abortion in a Jointly Determined Framework
This study provides evidence on the principal determinants of pregnancy and abortion in India using a large country-wide district-level data set (DLHS 2007). The paper provides an economic framework for the analysis of pregnancy and abortion. The study distinguishes between induced and spontaneous abortion and compares the effects of their determinants. The results show that there are wide differences between induced and spontaneous abortions in …
Multidimensional Deprivation in China, India and Vietnam
This study compares living standards in China, India and Vietnam using the recent multidimensional approach. A distinguishing feature of this study is the use of unit record datasets containing household-level information on access to a wide range of dimensions. The study uses the methodology of principal component analysis to measure household wealth. The wealth index is then used to examine the distribution of deprivation and poverty by wealth …
Health consequences of child labour in Bangladesh
The paper examines the effect of child labour on child health outcomes in Bangladesh, advancing the methodologies and the results of papers published in different journals
Multi-Dimensional Deprivation in India During and After the Reforms
Interaction Between Hiv Awareness, Knowledge, Safe Sex Practice and Hiv Prevalence
This paper makes methodological and empirical contributions to the study of HIV in the context of Botswana, a country with high HIV prevalence. Comparable evidence is presented from India to put the Botswana results in perspective. The results point to the strong role played by affluence and education in increasing HIV knowledge, promoting safe sex and reducing HIV prevalence. The study presents African evidence on the role played by the empowerm…
Food consumption patterns and malnourished Indian children
Measuring the Multi-Dimensional Knowledge Deprivation of Hiv/Aids
Though HIV/AIDS poses serious risks to economic security, there is very little economics literature quantifying awareness and knowledge of this disease and their principal socioeconomic determinants. This is what the present study attempts to do in the context of India, which faces a significant threat from HIV/AIDS. The study is based on India's National Family Health Surveys covering the period of economic reforms and beyond. The contribution i…
Changes in Food Consumption and the Implications for Food Security and Undernourishment
This article examines the changes in the nature and quantity of food consumption in India during the reform decade of the 1990s, and analyses their implications for calorie intake and undernourishment. The study documents the decline in cereal consumption, especially in the urban areas, and provides evidence that suggests an increase in the prevalence of undernourishment over the period 1987/88 to 2001/2002. The results also point to a significan…
Endogenous Intra‐household Balance of Power and its Impact on Expenditure Patterns
This paper extends the collective approach to household behaviour by proposing and estimating a model in which the weights attached to individual members are endogenously determined. The estimation is conducted using two different data‐sets from three Indian states. We find that relative bargaining power of the adult decision‐makers has a statistically significant effect on the budget share of an item and that the effects are typically nonlinear …
The Impact of Resource Inflows on Child Health
This paper investigates changes to the health status of young children (aged 0–5 years) in the Kwazulu-Natal province of South Africa during 1993–98. In our estimation we explicitly take into account the potential endogeneity of household resources in affecting child health. In particular, we examine whether the effect of resources is differentiated by the source, the age and the sex of the recipient. Finally, we also take into account the panel …
The effect of transfers on household expenditure patterns and poverty in South Africa
Analysis of child labour in Peru and Pakistan
A Cross-Country Study of Household Poverty and Inequality on Unit Record Household Budget Data
Household composition and optimal commodity taxes
The effect of transfers on household expenditure patterns and poverty in South Africa
Analysis of child labour in Peru and Pakistan
Multi-Dimensional Deprivation in India During and After the Reforms
A Multidimensional Dynamic Measure of Child Disadvantage
Testing for Linear Engel Curves and Additively Separable Preferences Using a New Flexible Demand System
Journal Article Testing for Linear Engel Curves and Additively Separable Preferences Using a New Flexible Demand System Get access Richard Blundell, Richard Blundell University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Ranjan Ray Ranjan Ray University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 94, Issue 376, 1 December 1984, Pages…
Food consumption patterns and malnourished Indian children
Changes in Food Consumption and the Implications for Food Security and Undernourishment
This article examines the changes in the nature and quantity of food consumption in India during the reform decade of the 1990s, and analyses their implications for calorie intake and undernourishment. The study documents the decline in cereal consumption, especially in the urban areas, and provides evidence that suggests an increase in the prevalence of undernourishment over the period 1987/88 to 2001/2002. The results also point to a significan…
Endogenous Intra‐household Balance of Power and its Impact on Expenditure Patterns
This paper extends the collective approach to household behaviour by proposing and estimating a model in which the weights attached to individual members are endogenously determined. The estimation is conducted using two different data‐sets from three Indian states. We find that relative bargaining power of the adult decision‐makers has a statistically significant effect on the budget share of an item and that the effects are typically nonlinear …
Health consequences of child labour in Bangladesh
The paper examines the effect of child labour on child health outcomes in Bangladesh, advancing the methodologies and the results of papers published in different journals
Prices, Children and Inequality
Journal Article Prices, Children and Inequality: Further Evidence for the United Kingdom, 1965-82 Get access Ranjan Ray Ranjan Ray University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 95, Issue 380, 1 December 1985, Pages 1069–1077, https://doi.org/10.2307/2233265 Published: 01 December 1985
A Cross-Country Study of Household Poverty and Inequality on Unit Record Household Budget Data
A dynamic analysis of expenditure patterns in rural India
Analysis of a Time Series of Household Expenditure Surveys for India
ECONOMETRIC studies of household expenditure occupy an important place in government policy formulation with estimates of expenditure and price elasticity proving useful in several planning models. Although the empirical literature is large, relatively few studies have considered the simultaneous impact of total expenditure, price and family size on household demand using time series of budget data and within a framework that is consistent with e…
Testing for Linear Engel Curves and Additively Separable Preferences Using a New Flexible Demand System
Journal Article Testing for Linear Engel Curves and Additively Separable Preferences Using a New Flexible Demand System Get access Richard Blundell, Richard Blundell University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Ranjan Ray Ranjan Ray University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 94, Issue 376, 1 December 1984, Pages…
A dynamic analysis of expenditure patterns in rural India
Prices, Children and Inequality
Journal Article Prices, Children and Inequality: Further Evidence for the United Kingdom, 1965-82 Get access Ranjan Ray Ranjan Ray University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 95, Issue 380, 1 December 1985, Pages 1069–1077, https://doi.org/10.2307/2233265 Published: 01 December 1985
Household composition and optimal commodity taxes
The behavioural and welfare implications of housing demand under rationing
A Cross-Country Study of Household Poverty and Inequality on Unit Record Household Budget Data
Analysis of child labour in Peru and Pakistan
The effect of transfers on household expenditure patterns and poverty in South Africa
The Impact of Resource Inflows on Child Health
This paper investigates changes to the health status of young children (aged 0–5 years) in the Kwazulu-Natal province of South Africa during 1993–98. In our estimation we explicitly take into account the potential endogeneity of household resources in affecting child health. In particular, we examine whether the effect of resources is differentiated by the source, the age and the sex of the recipient. Finally, we also take into account the panel …
Endogenous Intra‐household Balance of Power and its Impact on Expenditure Patterns
This paper extends the collective approach to household behaviour by proposing and estimating a model in which the weights attached to individual members are endogenously determined. The estimation is conducted using two different data‐sets from three Indian states. We find that relative bargaining power of the adult decision‐makers has a statistically significant effect on the budget share of an item and that the effects are typically nonlinear …
Changes in Food Consumption and the Implications for Food Security and Undernourishment
This article examines the changes in the nature and quantity of food consumption in India during the reform decade of the 1990s, and analyses their implications for calorie intake and undernourishment. The study documents the decline in cereal consumption, especially in the urban areas, and provides evidence that suggests an increase in the prevalence of undernourishment over the period 1987/88 to 2001/2002. The results also point to a significan…
Measuring the Multi-Dimensional Knowledge Deprivation of Hiv/Aids
Though HIV/AIDS poses serious risks to economic security, there is very little economics literature quantifying awareness and knowledge of this disease and their principal socioeconomic determinants. This is what the present study attempts to do in the context of India, which faces a significant threat from HIV/AIDS. The study is based on India's National Family Health Surveys covering the period of economic reforms and beyond. The contribution i…
Interaction Between Hiv Awareness, Knowledge, Safe Sex Practice and Hiv Prevalence
This paper makes methodological and empirical contributions to the study of HIV in the context of Botswana, a country with high HIV prevalence. Comparable evidence is presented from India to put the Botswana results in perspective. The results point to the strong role played by affluence and education in increasing HIV knowledge, promoting safe sex and reducing HIV prevalence. The study presents African evidence on the role played by the empowerm…
Food consumption patterns and malnourished Indian children
Multi-Dimensional Deprivation in India During and After the Reforms
Determinants of Pregnancy and Induced and Spontaneous Abortion in a Jointly Determined Framework
This study provides evidence on the principal determinants of pregnancy and abortion in India using a large country-wide district-level data set (DLHS 2007). The paper provides an economic framework for the analysis of pregnancy and abortion. The study distinguishes between induced and spontaneous abortion and compares the effects of their determinants. The results show that there are wide differences between induced and spontaneous abortions in …
Multidimensional Deprivation in China, India and Vietnam
This study compares living standards in China, India and Vietnam using the recent multidimensional approach. A distinguishing feature of this study is the use of unit record datasets containing household-level information on access to a wide range of dimensions. The study uses the methodology of principal component analysis to measure household wealth. The wealth index is then used to examine the distribution of deprivation and poverty by wealth …
Health consequences of child labour in Bangladesh
The paper examines the effect of child labour on child health outcomes in Bangladesh, advancing the methodologies and the results of papers published in different journals
Preferences, Spatial Prices and Inequality
This study examines the effect of prices on inequality in rural India during the period of economic reforms and beyond (1999/2000–2009/2010). It proposes a framework for calculating ‘exact’ price indices, based on the ‘Exact Affine Stone Index’ (EASI) demand system, and shows its usefulness by calculating spatial prices and regionally varying temporal prices that allow for both differences in preferences between states and over time. The study fi…
Estimates of Spatial Prices in India and Their Sensitivity to Alternative Estimation Methods and Choice of Commodities
The Link between Preferences, Prices, Inequality, and Poverty
This paper documents the shift in the literature on prices from being exclusively a macro-topic featuring in the study of inflation, national income accounting, and cross-country income comparisons to one that is firmly rooted in micro-involving economic analysis of household behaviour, welfare, and the distributional implications of changes in relative prices. This paper brings together results from some of the recent studies on Indian National …
Do in Utero Shocks Have Adverse Effects on Child Health Outcomes and Can Welfare Schemes Ameliorate Such Effects? Evidence From Andhra Pradesh, India
This study aimed to assess whether shocks experienced by children in the mother’s womb can have an adverse effect on their future health, and whether these effects can be ameliorated by government welfare schemes. Data were taken from three phases of the Young Lives Survey carried out in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh in 2002, 2007 and 2009–2010. Different types of in utero shock were distinguished from the data. Using ordinary least squares …
How Does Child Disadvantage Change with Age? An Analysis of Australian Children
This paper applies a dynamic multidimensional measure of disadvantage to examine how the nature and extent of disadvantage experienced by a child can vary throughout their childhood. We use two longitudinal datasets to track a cohort of Australian children from around 4 to at least 10 years of age, comparing the experiences of Indigenous children to the broader Australian child population. Our analysis confirms that Indigenous children not only e…
A Multidimensional Dynamic Measure of Child Disadvantage
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