Bertrand says research on the “gender agenda” will be a focus in the coming year because she remains “excited” about it and has studies “in the pipeline.”
“She’s a rare economist who is not methodologically dogmatic” and can rely on existing data or set up her own experiment to address a question, said Robert Gertner, a deputy dean at the Booth School. “Her strength is identifying these very big trends that have disruptive effects and coming up with really good evidence of the complex ways in which people make decisions and behave.”