Marianne Bertrand

About

Marianne Bertrand is the Chris P. Dialynas Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. She 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. Professor Bertrand is an applied micro-economist whose research covers the fields of labor economics, corporate finance, 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 Journal of Finance.

Research topics

• Economics
• Sociology
• Political Science
• Business
• Labour economics
• Psychology
• Economic growth
• Demography
• Demographic economics
• Medicine

Selected publications

• The impact of COVID-19 on small business outcomes and expectations

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2020 · 1602 citations

  To explore the impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on small businesses, we conducted a survey of more than 5,800 small businesses between March 28 and April 4, 2020. Several themes emerged. First, mass layoffs and closures had already occurred-just a few weeks into the crisis. Second, the risk of closure was negatively associated with the expected length of the crisis. Moreover, businesses had widely varying beliefs about the likely duration of COVID-related disruptions. Third, many sm…

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• Tax-Exempt Lobbying: Corporate Philanthropy as a Tool for Political Influence

  American Economic Review · 2020 · 262 citations

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  We explore the role of charitable giving as a means of political influence. For philanthropic foundations associated with large US corporations, we present three different identification strategies that consistently point to the use of corporate social responsibility in ways that parallel the strategic use of political action committee (PAC) spending. Our estimates imply that 6.3 percent of corporate charitable giving may be politically motivated, an amount 2.5 times larger than annual PAC contr…

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• Measuring the Labor Market at the Onset of the COVID-19 Crisis

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2020 · 135 citations

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• Coming Apart? Cultural Distances in the United States over Time

  American Economic Journal Applied Economics · 2023 · 50 citations

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  We analyze trends in cultural distances between groups in the United States defined by income, education, gender, race, and political ideology. We measure cultural distance as the ability to infer an individual's group based on media diet, consumer behavior, time use, social attitudes, or newborn's name. Gender difference in time-use decreased between 1965 and 1995 and has remained constant since. Differences in social attitudes by political ideology, and somewhat by income, have increased over…

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• Predicting and Preventing Gun Violence: An Experimental Evaluation of READI Chicago

  National Bureau of Economic Research · 2023-01-01 · 23 citations

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  Gun violence is the most pressing public safety problem in American cities.We report results from a randomized controlled trial (N = 2, 456) of a community-researcher partnership called the Rapid Employment and Development Initiative (READI) Chicago.The program offered an 18month job alongside cognitive behavioral therapy and other social support.Both algorithmic and human referral methods identified men with strikingly high scope for gun violence reduction: for every 100 people in the control g…

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Frequent coauthors

• Sendhil Mullainathan

  University of Chicago

  201 shared

• Bruno Crépon

  École Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Économique

  113 shared

• Alicia Marguerie

  93 shared

• Robin Burgess

  87 shared

• Patrick Premand

  Impact

  81 shared

• Antoinette Schoar

  National Bureau of Economic Research

  67 shared

• Francesco Trebbi

  60 shared

• Guo Xu

  50 shared

Education

• B.A.

  Universite Libre de Bruxelles

  1991

• M.S.

  Universite Libre de Bruxelles

  1992

• Ph.D.

  Harvard University

  1998

Awards & honors

• 2004 Elaine Bennett Research Prize
• 2012 Society of Labor Economists’ Rosen Prize for Outstandin…
• Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Fellow of the Econometric Society
• Elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021

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