Adeline Delavande is a Professor of Economics at the Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex. Her primary research focuses on understanding how individuals make decisions under uncertainty using elicited subjective expectations, in particular on how best to elicit subjective expectations from survey respondents in both developed and developing countries, and on how to use elicited expectations to make inference on behaviour, with applications related to education, health, family economics, development economics and aging.

Current research interests include: education, economic demography, health, development economics