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Debraj Ray
Researcher at New York University
Publications - 216
Citations - 14870
Debraj Ray is an academic researcher from New York University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Asset (economics) & Repeated game. The author has an hindex of 55, co-authored 210 publications receiving 13663 citations. Previous affiliations of Debraj Ray include Cornell University & Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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On the measurement of polarization
Joan-Maria Esteban,Debraj Ray +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a population of individuals may be grouped according to some vector of characteristics into "clusters", such that each cluster is very similar in terms of the attributes of its members, but different clusters have members with very "dissimilar" attributes.
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Conflict and Distribution
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a behavioral model that links the level and pattern of social conflict to the societywide distribution of individual characteristics and found that conflict is closely connected with the bimodality of the underlying distribution of characteristics.
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Inequality as a Determinant of Malnutrition and Unemployment: Policy
Partha Dasgupta,Debraj Ray +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, it is shown that if aggregate assets in an economy are neither large nor small, certain patterns of Lorenz improving asset redistributions (or nutrition transfers) increase aggregate output and reduce the volume of involuntary unemployment and the incidence of undernourishment.
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Aspirations, Poverty and Economic Change
TL;DR: Some of the material here was originally presented at the World Bank Conference on Culture and Development, June 2002, as comments on Arjun Appadurai's paper (Appadurai (2002)).
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Ethnicity and Conflict: An Empirical Study †
TL;DR: This paper examined the impact of ethnic divisions on conict and showed that ethnic polarization, ethnic fractionalization, and a Greenberg-Gini index are signicant correlates of conict.