Marianne Bertrand
Co-Chair, Labor Markets
J-PAL Affiliated Professor
Chris P. Dialynas Professor of Economics
University of Chicago
Marianne Bertrand is a Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. She is an applied microeconomist whose research covers the fields of labor economics, corporate finance, political economy, and development economics. Her research in these areas has been published widely, including numerous research articles in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Political Economy, the American Economic Review, and the Review of Economic Studies.
Marianne is a Co-Director of Chicago Booth’s Rustandy Center for Social Sector Innovation and the Director of the Inclusive Economy Lab at the University of Chicago Urban Labs. She has received several awards and honors, including the 2004 Elaine Bennett Research Prize, awarded by the American Economic Association to recognize and honor outstanding research in any field of economics by a woman at the beginning of her career, and the 2012 Society of Labor Economists’ Rosen Prize for Outstanding Contributions to Labor Economics. She has also served as co-editor of the American Economic Review.
Marianne is a Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Center for Economic Policy Research, and the Institute for the Study of Labor. She is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Econometric Society, as well as an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences. She was a faculty member in the Department of Economics at Princeton University for two years before joining Chicago Booth in 2000. Marianne earned her PhD in Economics from Harvard University.
Marianne serves as Co-Chair of J-PAL's Labor Markets sector and Co-Chair of the Jobs and Opportunity Initiative (JOI) and JOI Brazil. She has served on the Executive Committee of the J-PAL Board of Directors, as well as the review boards of J-PAL's Post-Primary Education Initiative and J-PAL North America's Worker Prosperity Initiative, and as a mentor to J-PAL regional scholars. She has also lectured at J-PAL training events.