Adeline Delavande
RAND

Adeline Delavande has received her Ph.D. in Economics from Northwestern University in June 2004 under the supervision of Charles F. Manski. She is currently an Associate Economist at RAND Corporation and an Assistant Professor at Universidade Nova de Lisboa in Portugal. For her Ph.D. dissertation, she has designed and conducted a survey eliciting probabilistic expectations and stated preferences about contraception from young women. She has used the expectations data to analyze women’s contraceptive behavior by estimating a structural model of contraceptive behavior. She has also studied how women revise their subjective expectations when receiving new information. She has gained further experience in survey methods from her involvement in the design of a module on Social Security expectations in the American Life Panel and Health and Retirement Survey Internet panel, and in the design of a module about AIDS-related expectations as part of the 2006 Malawi Diffusion an Ideational Change Project. Her research interests include economic demography, survey methods and decision-making under uncertainty. Her current work analyzes how to elicit probabilistic expectations from survey respondents in developed and developing countries, how individuals revise their subjective expectations upon receiving new information, how uncertainty about survival influence Social Security claiming decisions, and how survival expectations can be used to estimate differential mortality.