She further pursued her studies and earned her Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2008, where she wrote her final dissertation "Essays on Matching, Marriage and Human Capital Accumulation".
[1] She also served for the Government of Canada as an economist at the Economic Studies and Policy Analysis Division for the Department of Finance from 2003 to 2004.
Caste and Mate Selection in Modern India" Lafortune writes this paper in collaboration with economists Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Maitreesh Ghatak for the American Economic Journal.
The study focuses on the influence caste systems have on marriage decisions among men and women in India, over economic differentials.
Control variables include age, education, wage, location, family origins, and height.
Additionally, the next generation of the respondents will eventually marry through a channel of friends and family networks instead of ads.