Jeanne Lafortune

Jeanne Lafortune is a Full 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. She is a faculty affiliate and scientific co-director of JPAL-LAC and a research fellow at IZA. She obtained her PhD in Economics from MIT in 2008, after a BA from McGill University and an MA from University of Toronto. She is a co-editor at the Journal of Demographic Economics, an associate editor at the American Economic Journal: Public Policy and at the Journal of Human Resources, a member of the Editorial Board of Cliometrica and the secretary of the Latin American Standing Committee of the Econometrics Society. Her primary fields of interest are labor and development economics, with a particular focus on family economics. She has studied the interaction between educational and marriage decisions; the role of commitment within cohabiting and marital relationships; how economies adapt to immigration and technological change and how information interventions can improve the welfare of workers and entrepreneurs.