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Jeanne Lafortune

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#4382

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Jeanne Lafortune's Degrees

PhD Economics University of California, Berkeley
Masters Economics University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Jeanne Lafortune is a Canadian economist who currently works as an Full Professor in Economics and Director of Research at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. She is also a researcher at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab , which is a global research center that aims to reduce poverty and improve life quality of people in the Caribbean and Latin America. Lafortune holds a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her research interests focus on three main fields, including economic history, family and development economics.

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Jeanne Lafortune's Published Works

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Published Works

Marry for What? Caste and Mate Selection in Modern India (2009) (323)
Making Yourself Attractive: Pre-Marital Investments and the Returns to Education in the Marriage Market (2012) (170)
Changing the Rules Midway: The Impact of Granting Alimony Rights on Existing and Newly Formed Partnerships (2017) (58)
Role Models or Individual Consulting: The Impact of Personalizing Micro-entrepreneurship Training (2018) (54)
Smooth(er) Landing? The Dynamic Role of Networks in the Location and Occupational Choice of Immigrants (2012) (49)
What happens the morning after? The costs and benefits of expanding access to emergency contraception. (2014) (36)
All for One? Family Size and Children's Educational Distribution under Credit Constraints (2014) (33)
People and Machines: A Look at the Evolving Relationship between Capital and Skill in Manufacturing, 1860–1930, Using Immigration Shocks (2015) (33)
More Hands, More Power? Estimating the Impact of Immigration on Output and Technology Choices Using Early 20th Century US Agriculture (2015) (30)
Tying the Double-Knot: The Role of Assets in Marriage Commitment (2017) (20)
Why Wait? A Century of Education, Marriage Timing and Gender Roles (2016) (20)
Changes in intrarenal blood flow during sepsis. (1979) (15)
WHO COMES AND WHY? DETERMINANTS OF IMMIGRANTS SKILL LEVEL IN THE EARLY XXTH CENTURY US (2015) (15)
Personalized Information as a Tool to Improve Pension Savings: Results from a Randomized Control Trial in Chile (2022) (10)
Collateralized Marriage (2020) (10)
Do you like me enough? The impact of restricting preferences ranking in a university matching process (2018) (8)
Are Intra-Household Allocations Policy Neutral? Theory and Empirical Evidence (2011) (8)
[Indoor air quality and adult asthma]. (2013) (6)
Betting the House: How Assets Influence Marriage Selection, Marital Stability, and Child Investments (2017) (6)
Renal vascular effects of stroma and stroma-free hemoglobin. (1979) (6)
Renal vascular effects of stroma and stroma-free hemoglobin. (1979) (4)
First case of melanoma-associated retinopathy with conjunctival melanoma. (2020) (3)
What is The Price of Freedom?: Estimating Women's Willingness to Pay for Job Schedule Flexibility (2020) (3)
Are microentrepreneurs constrained by their lack of knowledge or motivation ? Lessons from a randomized experiment in Chile ∗ (2015) (3)
Brivaracetam: First Canadian Experience in an Intractable Epilepsy Population (2020) (3)
New Technologies, Productivity, and Jobs: The (Heterogeneous) Effects of Electrification on US Manufacturing (2020) (3)
Betting the House: The Role of Homeownership in Marital Commitment and Child Investments (2018) (2)
What is the price of freedom? Estimating women’s willingness to pay for job flexibility (2020) (2)
Does Formal Credit Lead to more Financial Inclusion or Distress? Results Using an Algorithm-based Loan among Underserved Clients in Paraguay∗ (2019) (2)
Baby commodity booms? The impact of commodity shocks on fertility decisions and outcomes (2021) (2)
Effect of steroids on the renovascular changes of sepsis. (1979) (2)
Resource Misallocation from Childcare Policies (2020) (1)
Men, women and capital: Estimating substitution patterns using a size and gender-dependent childcare policy in Chile (2018) (1)
More Hands, More Power? The Impact of Immigration on Farming and Technology Choices in US Agriculture in Early 20th Century (2012) (1)
Changing Returns to Scale in Manufacturing 1880-1930: The Rise of (Skilled) Labor? (2021) (1)
[Predictors of online medical appointments with general practitioners]. (2018) (1)
The distortionary effect of size and factor dependent policies: The role of factor substitutability in measuring the impact of a child-care subsidy policy in Chile (2017) (1)
Veterinary Medicine. Third Edition. (1969) (1)
Replication data for: Role Models or Individual Consulting: The Impact of Personalizing Micro-entrepreneurship Training (2019) (1)
What is the price of freedom? Estimating women's willingness to pay for job schedule flexibility (2022) (1)
Putting the Husband Through: The Role of Credit Constraints in the Timing of Marriage and Spousal Education (2022) (1)
Betting the House: Asset Accumulation, Marriage Patterns, and Divorce Law (2016) (1)
Economic History and Cliometrics Lab Working Paper # 21 Who comes and Why ? Determinants of Immigrants Skill Level in the Early XXth Century (2015) (0)
Therapeutique Nouvelle En Neuro-Pathologie. (1956) (0)
Essays on matching, marriage and human capital accumulation (2008) (0)
People and Machines: A Look at the Evolving Relationship between Capital and Skill in Manufacturing 1860-1930 Using Immigration Shocks (2015) (0)
Virology Monographs 10. Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis Virus (1973) (0)
Location and Occupation Choice of Early 20th Century Immigrants to the US (2009) (0)
[Total prosthesis of the hip. A clinical experience]. (1972) (0)
Replication data for: Tying the Double-Knot: The Role of Assets in Marriage Commitment (2019) (0)
IZA DP No . 11176 Betting the House : How Assets Influence Marriage Selection , Marital Stability , and Child Investments NOVEMBER 2017 (2017) (0)
Marriage in modern India: does caste still matter for mate selection? (2012) (0)
Labor Market Polarization in Latin America * (2022) (0)
First Canadian experience of brivaracetam in a highly difficult to treat epilepsy population: a two-center clinical study (P3.5-014) (2019) (0)
Clinical evaluation of reserpine in mink. (1960) (0)
WHAT’S BEHIND HER SMILE? LOOKS, SELF-ESTEEM, AND LABOR MARKET OUTCOMES (0)
Results Using a Strict Scoring Rule among Underserved Clients in Paraguay (2019) (0)
Personalizing or Reminding? How to Better Incentivize Savings among Underbanked Individuals (2021) (0)
Level in the Early XXth Century US (2014) (0)
Data for: Estimating peer effects in an adult training program in Chile (2020) (0)
Can interactive online training make high school students more entrepreneurial? Experimental evidence from Rwanda (2021) (0)
[Final report: overall study of the Billings Ovulation Method] (1976) (0)

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