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Ranjan joined Monash University in January 2008 as Professor of Economics from the University of Tasmania. He served as Professor of Economics at the University of Tasmania from 1995 till the beginning of 2008.Prior to that, Ranjan has held the position of Professor of Economics at the Delhi School of Economics, India. He has also held visiting positions at several top ranking academic institutions such as the University of British Columbia and Cornell University. Ranjan has a wide range of research interests that include the specification and estimation of demand systems, the design and reform of commodity taxes, gender bias in consumption patterns, intra household resource allocation, child labour, household poverty and dietary patterns in developing countries. Ranjan has attracted considerable funds for his research .He has held several competitive research grants under the Australian Research Council’s Large Grant and Discovery Grant Schemes. Ranjan has published widely in a number of highly ranked Australian and international journals in Economics including The Economic Journal, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Economica, Oxford Economic Papers, European Economic Review, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Journal of Public Economics and Journal of Development Economics. He is currently on the Editorial Board of the Economic Record and the Journal of International Development.
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Ray, R. “Analysis of a Time Series of Household Expenditure Surveys for India”, Review of Economics and Statistics, 1980, 595-602.
Ray, R. “Measuring the Costs of Children: An Alternative Approach”, /Journal of Public Economics/, 22, 1983, 89-102.
Ray, R. “Specification and Time Series Estimation of Dynamic Gorman Polar Form Demand Systems”, European Economic Review/, 27, 1985, 357-374.
Ray, R. “Prices, Children and Inequality: Further Evidence for the UK, 1965-82”, Economic Journal/, 95, 1985, 1069-1077.
Ray, R. “A Dynamic Analysis of Expenditure Patterns in Rural India”, Journal of Development Economics, 19, 1985, 283-297.
Ray, R. “Sensitivity of ‘Optimal’ Commodity Taxes to Alternative Demand Functional Forms: An Econometric Case Study of India”, Journal of Public Economics/, 31, 1986, 253-268.
Ray R., “Optimal Commodity Taxes in the Presence of Children”, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 90(1), 1988, 75-92.
Ray, R. “Marginal and Non-Marginal Commodity Tax Reforms with Rank Two and Rank Three Demographic Demand Systems”, Oxford Economic Papers, 51, 1999, 689-712.
Ray, R. with Maitra, P.“The Effects of Transfers on Household Expenditure Patterns and Poverty in South Africa”, Journal of Development Economics, 71, 2003, 23-49.
Ray R., Lancaster G. and Maitra, P. “Endogenous Intra-household Balance of Power and its Impact on Expenditure Patterns: Evidence from India”, Economica, 73, (291), 2006, 435-460.
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