Professor Bertrand received a Bachelor's Degree in economics from Belgium's Universite Libre de Bruxelles in 1991, followed by a Master's Degree in econometrics from the same institution the next year.
In 1993 moved to the United States and earned a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1998.
After post-graduating she worked for a year as an assistant at the Belgium's Universite Libre de Bruxelles.
Later she was a faculty member in the Department of Economics at Princeton University for two years before joining Chicago Booth in 2000.
At the moment 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 a Co-Director of Chicago Booth’s Social Enterprise Initiative. She is also a member of the Faculty Advisory Board for the University of Chicago’s Collegium for Culture and Society, as well as of the Board of Directors for the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab. Professor Bertrand also serves as co-editor of the American Economic Review.
She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Selected Publications With A. Morse, “Information Disclosure, Cognitive Biases and Payday Borrowing,” The Journal of Finance.
With D. Karlan, S. Mullainathan, E. Shafir and J. Zinman, "What’s Advertising Content Worth? Evidence from a Consumer Credit Marketing Field Experiment,”Quarterly Journal of Economics (2010).
With R. Hanna, S. Djankov and S. Mullainathan, "Obtaining a Driving License in India: An Experimental Approach to Studying Corruption," Quarterly Journal of Economics (2007).
With D. Thesmar and A. Schoar, "Banking Deregulation and Industry Structure: Evidence from the French Banking Reforms of 1985," The Journal of Finance (2007).
