Aspirations, Poverty and Economic Change

By Debraj Ray. 2002

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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Culture and Public Action (2004, background): “…an admirable introduction to the role of anthropology in development from the perspective of the UN and the World Bank, as do Haggis and Schech with their more academic focus (Haggis and Schech 2000).5 Surveys of thought in economic development can similarly be found in Ray (1998) and Basu (1997).”
Economic Decision-Making in Poverty Depletes Behavioral Control (2011, background): “…people may be unable to implement personal rules that discipline their patience; Case (2001) finds effects of the South African pension on stress; Ray (2006) considers poverty’s interactions with aspirations; Banerjee and Mullainathan (2010) propose that those poor people who are sophisticated…”
Migration and aspirations – are migrants trapped on a hedonic treadmill? (2014, background): “He shows that successful individuals who were leaving the inner city did not influence the aspirations of those who stayed; thus, out-migrants were not part of the aspirational window of the stayers anymore (Ray 2006).”
Information, Role Models and Perceived Returns to Education Experimental Evidence from Madagascar (2013, background): “Ray (2004) suggests that role models might be powerful only when they come from a similar background and, therefore, carry information relevant to the audience.3 My paper sheds further light on how to provide additional information about the returns to education.”
Poverty and Self-Control (2013, background): “7This interpretation of self-control has been offered previously by Laibson (1997), Bernheim, Ray, and Yeltekin (1999), and Benhabib and Bisin (2001).”
Computers and the Promise of Development: Aspiration, Neoliberalism and 'Technolity' in India's ICTD enterprise (2008, background): “Appadurai’s ‘Capacity to Aspire’ (Appadurai 2004) and its subsequent ‘economist’s rejoinder’ by development economist Debraj Ray ( Ray 2006 ) are part of an interesting discussion that is of particular significance to ICTD.”
The Shape of Temptation: Implications for the Economic Lives of the Poor (2010, positive): “This offers a possible interpretation of the idea that aspirations matter (Ray (2002) makes the case that economists need to take aspirations more seriously).”
On Norms and Agency: Conversations about Gender Equality with Women and Men in 20 Countries (2013, background): “This adaptation may lead to an inequality trap, where women’s muted preferences affect their capacity 12 As defined by Amartya sen.”
The Future in Mind: Aspirations and Forward-Looking Behaviour in Rural Ethiopia (2014, background): “Authors have used different terms for the experiences that shape aspirations: “intra-personal and extra-personal environment” (Haller, 1968), “vicarious experience” (Bandura, 1977), and “aspiration window” (Ray, 2006) to cite a few.”
Developing a holistic approach to the analysis of farmer decision-making: implications for adaptation policy and practice in developing countries (2016, background): “The second quote shows that from a tribal farmer’s perspective, Rajput farmers are beyond his ‘cognitive window’ (Ray, 2006), i.e., the differences in their contexts are so unbridgeable, that they do not allow the tribal to emulate or learn from the Rajput farmer.”
How Do Aspirations Matter? (2016, background): “The answers are not at all straightforward since there are many interpretations and applications of the notion of aspiration (Sewell and Shah 1968; Ray 2003; Appadurai 2004; Watts and Bridges 2004; Burchardt 2009; Fuller 2009; Ibrahim 2011; Hart 2012).”
Aspirations: An Approach to Measurement with Validation Using Ethiopian Data (2014, background): “For instance, following the words of Ray (2006), aspirations are rooted in one’s aspiration window—that is, one’s cognitive world and one’s zone of individuals on which one relies to assess what is feasible for oneself—which is influenced by the size and composition of one’s network of contacts.”
Aspirations and Inequality (2014, methodology): “For instance, [1], [26] and [27] have argued that individuals with aspirations that are very far away from their current standards of living have little incentive to invest, because the gap would remain very large before and after.”