Raji Jayaraman is a development economist whose research has focused broadly on the role of incentives and social preferences on the decisions and performance of students, workers, and donors. Her recent empirical work has examined the effect of incentive pay on worker productivity; school feeding programs on student outcomes; defaults and natural disasters on charitable donations; and immigration on labor market outcomes. In collaboration with theorists, she has also worked on the identification of peer effects in social interactions models. Her work has appeared in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Economics and Statistics and the Journal of Development Economics.