2026 Marianne Bertrand: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	73	381	341	260	229	179	50114

Research.com Recognitions

2013 - Fellows of the Econometric Society
2012 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2003 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Marianne Bertrand is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States and focuses on research within the social sciences and economics. The primary fields of study for their work include Social Sciences and Economics, Econometrics, and Finance, with significant contributions to Economics and Econometrics as well as Sociology and Political Science.

The researcher's work covers various subfields such as General Health Professions, Demography, and Gender Studies. Major topics addressed in their research include:

Work-Family Balance Challenges
Employment and Welfare Studies
COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
Labor Market Dynamics and Wage Inequality
Firm Innovation and Growth

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Marianne Bertrand are:

"The impact of COVID-19 on small business outcomes and expectations," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
"Tax-Exempt Lobbying: Corporate Philanthropy as a Tool for Political Influence," 2020, American Economic Review
"Gender in the Twenty-First Century," 2020, AEA Papers and Proceedings
"Measuring the Labor Market at the Onset of the COVID-19 Crisis," 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal
"Social Norms, Labour Market Opportunities, and the Marriage Gap Between Skilled and Unskilled Women," 2020, The Review of Economic Studies

Publications tend to appear frequently in venues such as:

AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
SSRN Electronic Journal
AEA Papers and Proceedings
The Quarterly Journal of Economics
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Marianne Bertrand has also contributed to book publications, including a title published by World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks:

"Do Workfare Programs Live up to Their Promises? Experimental Evidence from CôTe D'Ivoire," 2021

Frequent co-authors in the research collaborations include:

Alexander Bartik
Bruno Crépon
Matilde Bombardini
Raymond Fisman
Francesco Trebbi

Awards received over the course of the career include becoming a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012, a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2013, and a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2003.

Best Publications

How Much Should We Trust Differences-In-Differences Estimates?

Marianne Bertrand;Esther Duflo;Sendhil Mullainathan

14560
Citations
Are Emily and Greg More Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination

Marianne Bertrand;Sendhil Mullainathan

7200
Citations
Managing With Style: The Effect of Managers on Firm Policies

Marianne Bertrand;Antoinette Schoar

5197
Citations
Enjoying the Quiet Life? Corporate Governance and Managerial Preferences

Marianne Bertrand;Sendhil Mullainathan

4564
Citations
Enjoying the Quiet Life? Corporate Governance and Managerial Preferences

Marianne Bertrand;Sendhil Mullainathan

4561
Citations
Are CEOs Rewarded for Luck? The Ones Without Principals Are

Marianne Bertrand;Sendhil Mullainathan

2492
Citations
Ferreting out Tunneling: An Application to Indian Business Groups

Marianne Bertrand;Paras Praful Mehta;Sendhil Mullainathan

2428
Citations
Do People Mean What They Say? Implications for Subjective Survey Data

Marianne Bertrand;Sendhil Mullainathan

1999
Citations
The Role of Family in Family Firms

Marianne Bertrand;Antoinette Schoar

1838
Citations
Dynamics of the Gender Gap for Young Professionals in the Financial and Corporate Sectors

Marianne Bertrand;Claudia D. Goldin;Lawrence F. Katz

1767
Citations
NETWORK EFFECTS AND WELFARE CULTURES

Marianne Bertrand;Erzo F.P. Luttmer;Sendhil Mullainathan

1391
Citations
Gender Identity and Relative Income within Households

Marianne Bertrand;Emir Kamenica;Jessica Pan

1389
Citations
The impact of COVID-19 on small business outcomes and expectations.

Alexander W Bartik;Marianne Bertrand;Zoë B Cullen;Edward L Glaeser

1345
Citations
Gender Identity and Relative Income within Households

Marianne Bertrand;Emir Kamenica;Jessica Pan

1336
Citations
How Are Small Businesses Adjusting to COVID-19? Early Evidence from a Survey

Alexander W. Bartik;Marianne Bertrand;Zoë B. Cullen;Edward L. Glaeser

1330
Citations
The Gender Gap in Top Corporate Jobs

Marianne Bertrand;Kevin F. Hallock

1301
Citations
Field Experiments on Discrimination

Marianne Bertrand;Esther Duflo

994
Citations
What's Advertising Content Worth? Evidence from a Consumer Credit Marketing Field Experiment

Marianne Bertrand;Dean S. Karlan;Sendhil Mullainathan;Eldar Shafir

864
Citations
A Behavioral-Economics View of Poverty

Marianne Bertrand;Sendhil Mullainathan;Eldar Shafir

805
Citations
How are Small Businesses Adjusting to COVID-19? Early Evidence from a Survey

Alexander W Bartik;Marianne Bertrand;Marianne Bertrand;Zoë B Cullen;Edward L Glaeser;Edward L Glaeser

804
Citations
Banking Deregulation and Industry Structure: Evidence from the French Banking Reforms of 1985

Marianne Bertrand;Antoinette Schoar;David Thesmar

768
Citations
Information Disclosure, Cognitive Biases and Payday Borrowing

Marianne Bertrand;Adair Morse

735
Citations
Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination

Marianne Bertrand;Marianne Bertrand;Marianne Bertrand;Sendhil Mullainathan;Sendhil Mullainathan

728
Citations
Mixing Family With Business: A Study of Thai Business Groups and the Families Behind Them

Marianne Bertrand;Simon Johnson;Krislert Samphantharak;Antoinette Schoar

663
Citations
Breaking the Glass Ceiling? The Effect of Board Quotas on Female Labor Market Outcomes in Norway

Marianne Bertrand;Sandra E Black;Sissel Jensen;Adriana Lleras-Muney

641
Citations
The Trouble with Boys: Social Influences and the Gender Gap in Disruptive Behavior

Marianne Bertrand;Jessica Pan

625
Citations
Network Effects and Welfare Cultures

Marianne Bertrand;Marianne Bertrand;Marianne Bertrand;Erzo F. P. Luttmer;Erzo F. P. Luttmer;Erzo F. P. Luttmer;Sendhil Mullainathan;Sendhil Mullainathan

203
Citations
THE EFFECT OF MANAGERS ON FIRM POLICIES

Marianne Bertrand;Antoinette Schoar

1
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Sendhil Mullainathan MIT

Antoinette Schoar MIT

Francesco Trebbi University of California, Berkeley

Eldar Shafir Princeton University

Raymond Fisman Boston University

Edward L. Glaeser Harvard University

David Thesmar MIT

Claudia Goldin Harvard University

Simeon Djankov London School of Economics and Political Science

Lawrence F. Katz Harvard University

External Links

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