Recent work by Debraj Ray
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Measuring upward mobility in developing countries
What do we know about economic mobility in developing countries?
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The economic and the social: Anatomy of a contract change in India
Productivity rose among tea pluckers when their base wages increased, despite a fall in monetary incentives, but this response vanishes within months
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Conflict and development
In this video, Debraj Ray and Joan Esteban discuss the need to understand the drivers of conflicts to design the best institutions to cope with them
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Missing unmarried women
Being unmarried, especially through widowhood, can have substantial effects on relative rates of female mortality in the developing world