Bernard Fortin

Research Fellow

Université Laval

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Bernard Fortin is professor in the Economics Department of Laval University (Quebec, Canada) and holder of the Research Canada Chair in the Economics of Social Policies and Human Resources. He received a Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley. He is specialised in Labour Economics, Public Economics and Applied Microeconometrics. He has done researches on the analysis of the welfare system, on household labour supply, on physicians’ behaviour, on the analysis of the underground economy, and on peer effects. He has written three books and has contributed many articles in leading journals such as The American Economic Review, The Journal of Political Economy, The Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, The Economic Journal, The Journal of Labor Economics, The Journal of Public Economics, The Journal of Human Resources, Economics of Education Review, The Journal of Population Economics, The Journal of Health Economics, Economics Letters, The Canadian Journal of Economics, and The Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. His current research interests include the collective model of household behaviour, the analysis of peer effects, the analysis of physicians’ payment mechanisms, and the analysis of tax evasion.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in June 2010.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12947
Peer Effects in Networks: A Survey
Yann Bramoullé, Habiba Djebbari, Bernard Fortin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11565
Measuring Physicians' Response to Incentives: Evidence on Hours Worked and Multitasking
Bruce S. Shearer, Nibene Habib Somé, Bernard Fortin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10588
Gender and Peer Effects in Social Networks
Julie Beugnot, Bernard Fortin, Guy Lacroix, Marie Claire Villeval
revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2019, 113, 207-224
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10158
Does Temporary Interruption in Postsecondary Education Induce a Wage Penalty? Evidence from Canada
Bernard Fortin, Safa Ragued
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 58, 108 - 122
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9087
Peer Effects, Fast Food Consumption and Adolescent Weight Gain
Bernard Fortin, Myra Yazbeck
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2015, 42, 125-138
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9002
How Falsifiable is the Collective Model? A New Test with an Application to Monogamous and Bigamous Households in Burkina Faso
Anyck Dauphin, Bernard Fortin, Guy Lacroix
published as ' Is Consumption Efficiency within Househols Falsifiable?' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2018, 16 (3), 737 - 766
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8896
Some Challenges in the Empirics of the Effects of Networks
Vincent Boucher, Bernard Fortin
published in: Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Networks, 2016, 277 - 302
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7835
Physician Payment Mechanisms, Hospital Length of Stay and Risk of Readmission: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Damien Échevin, Bernard Fortin
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2014, 36, 112-124
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7521
Social Networks and Peer Effects at Work
Julie Beugnot, Bernard Fortin, Guy Lacroix, Marie Claire Villeval
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5384
Evaluation of the Underground Economy in Quebec: A Microeconomic Approach
Bernard Fortin, Guy Lacroix, Dominique Pinard
published in: International Economic Journal, 2010, 24 (4), 463-479
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