Ray Clarence Fair (born October 4, 1942) is the John M. Musser Professor of Economics at Yale University.
Fair's teaching and research interests include macroeconomic theory, econometrics, and macroeconometric modeling.
He is noted for his methods for predicting the outcome of U.S. presidential elections, for which his work has been frequently cited.
Ray Fair maintains a macroeconomic model, data, software and forecasts on his home page and that are also available for free downloading for use on a personal computer.
He was married to Sharon Oster, a professor at the Yale School of Management, until her death in 2022.