Jeanne Lafortune

Research Fellow

Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

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Jeanne Lafortune is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile.

She was previously an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Her primary fields of interest are labor and development economics, with a particular interest in family economics. Her research has, among various topics, looked at the relationship between marriage market conditions and human capital accumulation, the role of caste in the Indian marriage market, the impact of migration in early 20th century United States and the role of changing alimony rights of cohabiting partners. She is also currently using randomized experiments to improve our understanding of labor markets in an emerging economy like Chile.

Jeanne Lafortune joined IZA as a Research Fellow in April 2015.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17227
Women's Suffrage and Men's Voting Patterns
Jeanne Lafortune, Francisco J. Pino
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15064
Can Interactive Online Training Make High School Students More Entrepreneurial? Experimental Evidence from Rwanda
Jeanne Lafortune, Todd Pugatch, José Tessada, Diego Ubfal
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11176
Betting the House: How Assets Influence Marriage Selection, Marital Stability, and Child Investments
Jeanne Lafortune, Corinne Low
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9671
Why Wait? A Century of Education, Marriage Timing and Gender Roles
Murat Iyigun, Jeanne Lafortune
published as 'Putting the Husband Through: Role of Credit Constraints in Timing of Marriage and Spousal Education' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2023, 41 (1), 245–289
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9217
People and Machines: A Look at the Evolving Relationship Between Capital and Skill in Manufacturing 1860-1930 Using Immigration Shocks
Jeanne Lafortune, José Tessada, Ethan Gatewood Lewis
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 101 (1), 30–43.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5594
Are Intra-Household Allocations Policy Neutral? Theory and Empirical Evidence
Pierre-André Chiappori, Murat Iyigun, Jeanne Lafortune, Yoram Weiss
published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (604), 1874-1905.
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