Adeline Delavande

Adeline Delavande is a Professor of Economics at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and the Nova School of Business and Economics. She holds affiliations with institutions such as the ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change (MiSoC) at the University of Essex and the Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on subjective beliefs and expectations in Development Economics, Health Economics, Education Economics, and Labour Economics. She investigates how individuals’ perceptions of future events influence decisions in health, education, and labor markets, with notable contributions to survey methodology for eliciting beliefs and analyzing their behavioral impacts.

Adeline has secured over $13 million in external funding from agencies like the ESRC (UK), the US National Institute on Aging, and the Higher Education Funding Council for England. Her work spans topics including maternal investments in child development, mortality risk communication during epidemics, and policy uncertainty effects on pension reforms. She serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization and Frontiers in Behavioral Economics, and holds leadership roles in professional societies such as the European Society for Population Economics and the Asian and Australasian Society of Labour Economics.

Her research portfolio reflects a strong emphasis on methodological innovation and real-world policy applications, with publications in top journals such as the Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Political Economy, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Key themes include the interplay between information, expectations, and decision-making across diverse contexts, from maternal health behaviors to university student outcomes.

Adeline’s funded projects include evaluations of educational interventions, health warning efficacy, and the socioeconomic impacts of mortality risk information. She collaborates widely, leading interdisciplinary teams and contributing to global policy discussions on development, health, and labor market dynamics.