Marianne Bertrand

Winner of the Barry Prize, 2024

The prize citation for Dr. Bertrand’s Barry Prize reads:

Through wide-ranging scholarly work in labor economics and related fields, Marianne Bertrand has expanded our knowledge of the complex and dynamic realities of corporate and household finance, political economy and corporate governance, gender and ethnic discrimination, and development economics. She has also contributed to the establishment of governing principles for universities seeking to reconcile the rights of academic free expression with orderly teaching and learning. The Academy honors Dr. Bertrand’s distinguished contributions to humanity’s understanding of everyday economic relationships, and to the integrity of the modern university.

Marianne Bertrand is the Chris P. Dialynas Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. She is a research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Center for Economic Policy Research, and the Institute for the Study of Labor. She is an applied micro-economist whose research covers the fields of labor economics, corporate finance, political economy and development economics. Her research in these areas has been published widely, including numerous research articles in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Political Economy, the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies and the Journal of Finance. She is the Pritzker Director of the Inclusive Economy Lab at the University of Chicago Urban Labs. She has received several awards and honors, including the 2004 Elaine Bennett Research Prize and the 2012 Society of Labor Economists’ Rosen Prize for Outstanding Contributions to Labor Economics. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Econometric Society. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.

October 2024