Professor Ranjan Ray

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, Journal of Development Economics and The Economic Record. He is currently on the Editorial Board of the Economic Record and the Journal of International Development. In 2002 and again in 2006, Ranjan was nominated by the Australian Research Council as an “expert of international standing”. Due to his highly cited work in the area of child labour, Ranjan was invited by the International labour Organisation in 2003 to undertake two projects in the area of child labour. His research on child labour has been published by the highly ranked journals, Journal of Population Economics and the World Bank Economic Review, and in the ILO journal, International labour Review.

Ranjan is currently the Chief Investigator in three research projects. These consist of two ARC Discovery Projects, including one (where he is the sole CI) that is entitled Modelling Demographic Demand System and Analysing Behaviour: Methodological Advances with Policy Applications, and one ( with Pushkar Maitra and Brett Inder) that is entitled Living Standards,HIV/AIDS and its Impact on the Next Generation. Since moving to Monash, Ranjan has started research on a new project in the area of corruption, its determinants and its consequences.