About
Ray is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Colby College.
His research interests lie primarily in health economics and policy, political economy, and the economics of race and gender, with a particular interest in the political economy of maternal, infant, and child health.
Ray’s award-winning dissertation focused on using economic methods to understand the reproductive, infant, and maternal health implications of the overturning of Roe v. Wade and the increasing limits on abortion access in the United States.
He recently received his PhD from the Department of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.