NBER profile: Marianne Bertrand.

Marianne Bertrand is a Research Associate in the NBER's Programs on Corporate Finance, Development Economics, and Labor Studies, and is the Chris P. Dialynas Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. She is also a Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research and the Institute for the Study of Labor, a Co-Director of Chicago Booth's Social Enterprise Initiative, a member of the Faculty Advisory Board for the University of Chicago's Collegium for Culture and Society, and a member of the Board of Directors for the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab. She serves as co-editor of the American Economic Review.

Bertrand is an applied microeconomist whose research has been published widely. She has received several awards and honors, including the 2004 Elaine Bennett Research Prize, awarded by the American Economic Association to recognize and honor...