Adeline Delavande

Professor of Economics, Nova SBE, ERA Chair

She specializes in Applied Economics, with expertise spanning Development Economics, Health Economics, Education Economics, and Labor Economics. Her research explores how individuals’ subjective beliefs and expectations about future events influence their present decisions. In particular, she seeks to disentangle the roles of constraints, expectations, and preferences in driving inequalities in life outcomes. She has made significant contributions to survey methodologies for eliciting these beliefs and to the economic analysis of how such beliefs shape behavior.
Adeline has published extensively in top international journals in economics, including the Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Political Economy, Economic Journal, as well in top general interest journals and in top fields of journals of other disciplines, including Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, Demography, and The New England Journal of Medicine.

Publications

Maternal Investments in Children: the Role of Expected Effort and Return

with Sonia Bhalotra, Paulino Font Gilabert and Joanna Maselko. Accepted at Economic Journal, 2024.

Mortality Risk Information and Health Seeking Behavior During an Epidemic

with Helene Purcell, Iliana V. Kohler, Alberto Ciancio, James Mwera, Victor Mwapasa, Hans-Peter Kohler. Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences 2024, 121(28).

Mortality Risk Information, Survival Expectations and Sexual Behaviors

with Alberto Ciancio, Hans-Peter Kohler and Iliana V. Kohler. Economic Journal, 2024.

Policy Uncertainty and Information Flows: Evidence from Pension Reform Expectations

with Emanuele Ciani, Ben Etheridge and Marco Francesconi. Economic Journal 2023, 133(649), 98-129.

Working Papers

Improving Childhood Immunization through Maternal Support: Evidence from a Randomized Intervention in Pakistan

with Areeba Shahab, Javed Younas and Basit Zafar, 2025.

Imprecise health beliefs and health behavior

with Emilia Del Bono and Angus Holford, 2024.

HeforShe: Bargaining Power, Parental Beliefs, and Parental Investments

with Alejandrina Cristia, Pauline Grosjean, and Sarah Walker, CEPR Working paper DP 18775, 2024.

Less Macho, More Mellow: The Malleability of Competitiveness

with Emilia Del Bono, Angus Holford and Patrick Nolen. Featured in the Guardian, 2024.

Infant Mortality Expectation and Fertility Choice in Rural Malawi

with Hans-Peter Kohler and Ali Vergili, 2024.

Uncertainty Attitudes, Subjective Expectations and Decisions under Uncertainty

with Jayant Ganguli and Friederike Mengel, 2023.

Expectations about the Productivity of Effort and Academic Outcomes: Evidence from a Randomized Information

with Emilia Del Bono, Angus Holford, Sonkurt Sen and Vedran Lesic, 2023.