Murray\u2019s primary research interest is in poverty, both in the U.S. and abroad. He has written extensively on in-kind transfer programs in the United States and on industrial location policies in less developed economies. He has also published articles on economic theory and on econometrics. Currently he is studying\u00a0the effect of the mass incarceration of African-American men on the earnings of low-skill members of other groups.<\/p>\n
Before coming to Bates, Murray had appointments at the RAND Corporation and the World Bank. Earlier, he had academic appointments at UCSD, Duke, the University of Virginia and Claremont Graduate University. He has also held visiting professorships at UC Berkeley, Harvard university, and LUISS Guido Carli University.<\/p>\n
Murray has taught urban economics, public economics, development economics, behavioral economics, microeconomic theory, and econometrics.<\/p>\n
Education<\/strong><\/span> Fields of Interest<\/strong><\/span> Selected Publications<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n “The Demand for Space in China,” with Guoqing Sun, Journal of Urban Economics, March 2017, 214-222.<\/p>\n \u201cAvoiding Invalid Instruments and Coping with Weak Instruments,\u201d Journal of Economic \u201cWhen is the Standard Analysis of Common Property Extraction under Free Access Correct?\u2013 \u201cThe Distribution of Direct Tenant Benefits from Public Housing,\u201d The Economics of Housing, John Quigley, ed., Edward Elgar Publishers, 1997. (Reprinted from Econometrica, July 1975, 771-788.)<\/p>\n \u201cSubsidized and Unsubsidized Housing Starts, 1961-1977,\u201d Review of Economics and Statistics, LXV, 4, November 1983, 590-597.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":631,"template":"","class_list":["post-157","faculty-profile","type-faculty-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","expertise-behavioral-economics","expertise-econometrics","expertise-economic-development","expertise-labor-economics","expertise-public-economics","expertise-urban-economics","expertise-specific-health-threats-in-developing-countries","expertise-specific-housing","expertise-specific-instrumental-variables-estimation","expertise-specific-inter-temporal-preferences","expertise-specific-military-manpower","expertise-specific-mobile-telephony-in-africa","expertise-specific-u-s-social-welfare-programs","what-i-teach-econmetrics","what-i-teach-microeconomics","what-i-teach-specific-behavioral-economics","what-i-teach-specific-cities","what-i-teach-specific-less-developed-economies","what-i-teach-specific-optimal-control-theory","what-i-teach-specific-poverty","what-i-teach-specific-statistics-econometrics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/faculty-profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5231,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/157\/revisions\/5231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPh.D. in Economics, Iowa State University
\nM.S. in Economics, Iowa State University
\nB.A. in Social Science, Santa Clara University<\/p>\n
\nUrban, Public, Development, Labor, Behavioral, and Econometrics<\/p>\n
\nPerspectives, 20, 4, Fall 2006, 111-132.<\/p>\n
\nA Game-Theoretic Justification for Non Game-Theoretic Analyses.\u201d (with others), Journal of
\nPolitical Economy, August, 1999, 843-858.<\/p>\n