Bernard Fortin

Research Fellow

Université Laval

bernard.fortin@ecn.ulaval.ca

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Network Program Areas

Evaluation of Labor Market Programs

Research Interests

Bernard Fortin is professor in the Economics Department of Laval University (Quebec, Canada) and holder of the Research Canada Chair in the Economics of Social Policies and Human Resources. He received a Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley. He is specialised in Labour Economics, Public Economics and Applied Microeconometrics. He has done researches on the analysis of the welfare system, on household labour supply, on physicians’ behaviour, on the analysis of the underground economy, and on peer effects. He has written three books and has contributed many articles in leading journals such as The American Economic Review, The Journal of Political Economy, The Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, The Economic Journal, The Journal of Labor Economics, The Journal of Public Economics, The Journal of Human Resources, Economics of Education Review, The Journal of Population Economics, The Journal of Health Economics, Economics Letters, The Canadian Journal of Economics, and The Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. His current research interests include the collective model of household behaviour, the analysis of peer effects, the analysis of physicians’ payment mechanisms, and the analysis of tax evasion.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in June 2010.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12947

Peer Effects in Networks: A Survey

Yann Bramoullé, Habiba Djebbari, Bernard Fortin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11565

Measuring Physicians' Response to Incentives: Evidence on Hours Worked and Multitasking

Bruce S. Shearer, Nibene Habib Somé, Bernard Fortin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10588

Gender and Peer Effects in Social Networks

Julie Beugnot, Bernard Fortin, Guy Lacroix, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2019, 113, 207-224

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10158

Does Temporary Interruption in Postsecondary Education Induce a Wage Penalty? Evidence from Canada

Bernard Fortin, Safa Ragued

forthcoming in: Economics of Education Review 2017

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9087

Peer Effects, Fast Food Consumption and Adolescent Weight Gain

Bernard Fortin, Myra Yazbeck

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2015, 42, 125-138

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9002

How Falsifiable is the Collective Model? A New Test with an Application to Monogamous and Bigamous Households in Burkina Faso

Anyck Dauphin, Bernard Fortin, Guy Lacroix

published as ' Is Consumption Efficiency within Househols Falsifiable?' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2018, 16 (3), 737 - 766 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11150-016-9359-4

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8896

Some Challenges in the Empirics of the Effects of Networks

Vincent Boucher, Bernard Fortin

forthcoming in: Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Networks, 2015

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7835

Physician Payment Mechanisms, Hospital Length of Stay and Risk of Readmission: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Damien Échevin, Bernard Fortin

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2014, 36, 112-124

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7521

Social Networks and Peer Effects at Work

Julie Beugnot, Bernard Fortin, Guy Lacroix, Marie Claire Villeval

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5384