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  1. Reply to “A Replication Study of ‘Openness, Country Size, and Government Size’ (Journal of Public Economics 2009)”

    Article • Public Finance Review, May 2019, SAGE Publications

    Rati Ram

  2. Measuring economic freedom: a comparison of two major sources

    Article • Applied Economics Letters, April 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Rati Ram

  3. Economic uncertainty and corruption: evidence from a large cross-country data set

    Article • Applied Economics, August 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Rati Ram

  4. Income elasticity of poverty in developing countries: updated estimates from new data

    Article • Applied Economics Letters, April 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Rati Ram

  5. Comparison of GDP Per Capita Data in Penn World Table and World Development Indicators

    Article • Social Indicators Research, March 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Rati Ram

  6. Trade policy and human development: a cross‐country perspective

    Article • International Journal of Social Economics, December 2012, Emerald

    Rati Ram

  7. Cross-country convergence in energy and electricity consumption, 1971–2007

    Article • Energy Economics, November 2012, Elsevier

    Rati Ram

  8. Social Capital and Income Inequality in the United States

    Article • Atlantic Economic Journal, October 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Rati Ram

  9. Income, Inequality, and Social Welfare: A Study of the U.S. States

    Article • International Advances in Economic Research, October 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Rati Ram

  10. The “inverse care law” and infant mortality among Whites and Blacks in the United States

    Article • International Journal of Social Economics, October 2011, Emerald

    Rati Ram

  11. Growth elasticity of poverty: direct estimates from recent data

    Article • Applied Economics, August 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Rati Ram

  12. Growth elasticity of poverty: estimates from new data

    Article • International Journal of Social Economics, October 2010, Emerald

    Rati Ram

  13. Relation between levels of infant‐, child‐ and maternal‐mortality and their rates of decline

    Article • International Journal of Social Economics, April 2010, Emerald

    Rati Ram

  14. Intercountry inequality in human development: a 30‐year perspective

    Article • Journal of Economic Studies, September 2009, Emerald

    Rati Ram

  15. Social Capital and Happiness: Additional Cross-Country Evidence

    Article • Journal of Happiness Studies, June 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Rati Ram

  16. International income distribution: comparing new ICP and the existing data

    Article • International Journal of Social Economics, May 2009, Emerald

    Rati Ram

  17. Openness, country size, and government size: Additional evidence from a large cross-country panel

    Article • Journal of Public Economics, February 2009, Elsevier

    Rati Ram

  18. Government spending and happiness of the population: additional evidence from large cross-country samples

    Article • Public Choice, September 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Rati Ram

  19. Parametric variability in cross-country growth regressions: An application of quantile-regression methodology

    Article • Economics Letters, May 2008, Elsevier

    Rati Ram

  20. Educational attainment and HIV/AIDS prevalence: A cross-country study

    Article • Economics of Education Review, February 2008, Elsevier

    Rati Ram

  21. Roles of income and equality in poverty reduction: recent cross‐country evidence

    Article • Journal of International Development, April 2007, Wiley

    Rati Ram

  22. IQ and economic growth: Further augmentation of Mankiw–Romer–Weil model

    Article • Economics Letters, January 2007, Elsevier

    Rati Ram

  23. Growth Elasticity of Poverty: Alternative Estimates and a Note of Caution

    Article • Kyklos, October 2006, Wiley

    Rati Ram

  24. State of the “life span revolution” between 1980 and 2000

    Article • Journal of Development Economics, August 2006, Elsevier

    Rati Ram

  25. Further examination of the cross-country association between income inequality and population health

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, February 2006, Elsevier

    Rati Ram

  26. Income inequality, poverty, and population health: Evidence from recent data for the United States

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, December 2005, Elsevier

    Rati Ram

  27. School expenditures and student achievement: evidence for the United States

    Article • Education Economics, August 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Rati Ram

  28. Trends in Developing Countries’ Commodity Terms-of-Trade since 1970

    Article • Review of Radical Political Economics, June 2004, SAGE Publications

    Rati Ram

  29. Recipient country's ‘policies’ and the effect of foreign aid on economic growth in developing countries: additional evidence

    Article • Journal of International Development, February 2004, Wiley

    Rati Ram

  30. Roles of Bilateral and Multilateral Aid in Economic Growth of Developing Countries

    Article • Kyklos, February 2003, Wiley

    Rati Ram

  31. Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth: Evidence from Cross‐Country Data for the 1990s*

    Article • Economic Development and Cultural Change, October 2002, University of Chicago Press

    Rati Ram

  32. Irreversibility of R&D investment and the adverse effect of uncertainty: Evidence from the OECD countries

    Article • Economics Letters, May 2001, Elsevier

    Rati Ram

  33. Level of Development, Rate of Economic Growth, and Income Inequality

    Article • Economic Development and Cultural Change, July 2000, University of Chicago Press

    Rati Ram

  34. Variations in the Effect of Uncertainty on Different Types of Investment: An Empirical Investigation

    Article • Australian Economic Papers, December 1999, Wiley

    Rati Ram

  35. TROPICS AND INCOME: A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF THE U.S. STATES

    Article • Review of Income and Wealth, September 1999, Wiley

    Rati Ram

  36. Tropics, income, and school life expectancy: an intercountry study

    Article • Economics of Education Review, April 1999, Elsevier

    Rati Ram

  37. Financial development and economic growth: Additional evidence

    Article • The Journal of Development Studies, April 1999, Taylor & Francis

    Rati Ram

  38. Forty Years of the Life Span Revolution: An Exploration of the Roles of “Convergence,” Income, and Policy

    Article • Economic Development and Cultural Change, July 1998, University of Chicago Press

    Rati Ram

  39. Reply to the Comment on Rati Ram's Test of the Kuznets Hypothesis

    Article • Economic Development and Cultural Change, October 1997, University of Chicago Press

    Rati Ram

  40. Level of Economic Development and Income Inequality: Evidence from the Postwar Developed World

    Article • Southern Economic Journal, October 1997, JSTOR

    Rati Ram

  41. Tropics and economic development: An empirical investigation

    Article • World Development, September 1997, Elsevier

    Rati Ram

  42. Productivity of public and private investment in developing countries: A broad international perspective

    Article • World Development, August 1996, Elsevier

    Rati Ram

  43. Level of Development and Rates of Return to Schooling: Some Estimates from Multicountry Data

    Article • Economic Development and Cultural Change, July 1996, University of Chicago Press

    Rati Ram

  44. “NOMINAL” AND “REAL” INTERSTATE INCOME INEQUALITY IN THE UNITED STATES: SOME ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE

    Article • Review of Income and Wealth, December 1995, Wiley

    Rati Ram

  45. Public educational expenditures in the United States: An analytical comparison with other industrialized countries

    Article • Economics of Education Review, March 1995, Elsevier

    Rati Ram

  46. Chapter 10 Defense expenditure and economic growth

    Article • January 1995, Elsevier

    Rati Ram

  47. Economic Development and Income Inequality: An Overlooked Regression Constraint

    Article • Economic Development and Cultural Change, January 1995, University of Chicago Press

    Rati Ram

  48. Research and Development Expenditures and Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Study

    Article • Economic Development and Cultural Change, January 1994, University of Chicago Press

    Rati Ram

  49. Inflation and relative-price variability: the effect of commodity aggregation

    Article • Applied Economics, May 1993, Taylor & Francis

    Rati Ram

  50. Kuznets's Inverted-U Hypothesis: Reply

    Article • Southern Economic Journal, January 1993, JSTOR

    Rati Ram

  51. Income, Distribution, and Welfare: An Intercountry Comparison

    Article • Economic Development and Cultural Change, October 1992, University of Chicago Press

    Rati Ram

  52. Intercountry inequalities in income and basic- needs indicators: A recent perspective

    Article • World Development, June 1992, Elsevier

    Rati Ram

  53. International inequalities in human development and real income

    Article • Economics Letters, March 1992, Elsevier

    Rati Ram

  54. INTERSTATE INCOME INEQUALITY IN THE UNITED STATES: MEASUREMENT, MODELLING AND SOME CHARACTERISTICS

    Article • Review of Income and Wealth, March 1992, Wiley

    Rati Ram

  55. Kuznets's Inverted-U Hypothesis: Evidence from a Highly Developed Country

    Article • Southern Economic Journal, April 1991, JSTOR

    Rati Ram

  56. Educational Expansion and Schooling Inequality: International Evidence and Some Implications

    Article • The Review of Economics and Statistics, May 1990, JSTOR

    Rati Ram

  57. Manufacturing output and labor productivity

    Article • Economics Letters, March 1990, Elsevier

    Rati Ram

  58. Relative-price variability in the United States

    Article • Economics Letters, March 1990, Elsevier

    Rati Ram

  59. Level of Development and Income Inequality: An Extension of Kuznets‐Hypothesis to the World Economy

    Article • Kyklos, February 1989, Wiley

    Rati Ram

  60. Can educational expansion reduce income inequality in less-developed countries?

    Article • Economics of Education Review, January 1989, Elsevier

    Rati Ram

  61. Inflation and relative-price variability

    Article • Economics Letters, January 1988, Elsevier

    Rati Ram

  62. Exports and Economic Growth in Developing Countries: Evidence from Time-Series and Cross-Section Data

    Article • Economic Development and Cultural Change, October 1987, University of Chicago Press

    Rati Ram

  63. Economic growth and structure of domestic absorption

    Article • Journal of Development Economics, August 1987, Elsevier

    Rati Ram

  64. A broader multicountry perspective on the Gibson paradox and fisher's hypothesis

    Article • De Economist, June 1987, Springer Science + Business Media

    Rati Ram

  65. Wagner's Hypothesis in Time-Series and Cross-Section Perspectives: Evidence from "Real" Data for 115 Countries

    Article • The Review of Economics and Statistics, May 1987, JSTOR

    Rati Ram

  66. Military Expenditures and Economic Growth in Less Developed Countries: An Augmented Model and Further Evidence

    Article • Economic Development and Cultural Change, January 1986, University of Chicago Press

    Rati Ram

  67. Conventional and ‘real’ GDP per capita in cross-country studies of production structure

    Article • Journal of Development Economics, August 1985, Elsevier

    Rati Ram

  68. Japanese and U. S. Inflation

    Article • Southern Economic Journal, July 1985, JSTOR

    Rati Ram

  69. Level and Variability of Inflation: Time-Series and Cross-Section Evidence from 117 Countries

    Article • Economica, May 1985, JSTOR

    Rati Ram

  70. The role of real income level and income distribution in fulfillment of basic needs

    Article • World Development, May 1985, Elsevier

    Rati Ram

  71. Exports and Economic Growth: Some Additional Evidence

    Article • Economic Development and Cultural Change, January 1985, University of Chicago Press

    Rati Ram

  72. Further International Evidence on Inflation-Output Trade-Offs

    Article • Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d économique, August 1984, JSTOR

    Rati Ram

  73. Causal Ordering Across Inflation and Productivity Growth in The Post-War United States

    Article • The Review of Economics and Statistics, August 1984, JSTOR

    Rati Ram

  74. Population increase, economic growth, educational inequality, and income distribution

    Article • Journal of Development Economics, April 1984, Elsevier

    Rati Ram

  75. Comparison of the actual and projected cross-country inequality in the mid-1970's

    Article • Atlantic Economic Journal, December 1983, Springer Science + Business Media

    Rati Ram

  76. Some Direct Estimates of "Discount Rates" and Consumer "Horizon" from Kendrick's Data

    Article • Southern Economic Journal, January 1983, JSTOR

    Rati Ram

  77. Further evidence on Keynes' “finance motive” in demand for money

    Article • Atlantic Economic Journal, December 1982, Springer Science + Business Media

    Rati Ram

  78. Simultaneous Equations Analysis of Fertility in the U.S.: A Comment

    Article • Econometrica, November 1982, JSTOR

    Rati Ram

  79. Composite indices of physical quality of life, basic needs fulfilment, and income

    Article • Journal of Development Economics, October 1982, Elsevier

    Rati Ram

  80. International inequality in the basic needs indicators

    Article • Journal of Development Economics, February 1982, Elsevier

    Rati Ram

  81. Export instability, income inequality, and aggregate savings: A few more results

    Article • Atlantic Economic Journal, December 1981, Springer Science + Business Media

    Rati Ram

  82. Further evidence on ‘primary orientation’ and structural change

    Article • Atlantic Economic Journal, September 1981, Springer Science + Business Media

    Rati Ram

  83. Direct and total effects of foreign capital inflows on savings

    Article • Atlantic Economic Journal, July 1981, Springer Science + Business Media

    Rati Ram

  84. Estimation of logarithmic relations: A possible pitfall and some alternatives

    Article • Atlantic Economic Journal, March 1981, Springer Science + Business Media

    Rati Ram

  85. Role of Education in Production: A Slightly New Approach

    Article • The Quarterly Journal of Economics, September 1980, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Rati Ram

  86. FOREIGN CAPITAL, SAVINGS AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: AN AGNOSTIC NOTE

    Article • Economic Inquiry, July 1980, Wiley

    Rati Ram

  87. Life Span, Health, Savings, and Productivity

    Article • Economic Development and Cultural Change, April 1979, University of Chicago Press

    Rati Ram

  88. International income inequality: 1970 and 1978

    Article • Economics Letters, January 1979, Elsevier

    Rati Ram

  89. Freedom, affluence, growth and inequality

    Article • Economics Letters, January 1979, Elsevier

    Rati Ram

  90. Irreversible Investments: A Cost–Benefit Perspective

    Article • Edward Elgar Publishing

    Rati Ram

  91. Defense Expenditure and Economic Growth: Evidence from Cross-Country Panel Data

    Article • Edward Elgar Publishing

    Rati Ram