Marcela Ibañez-Diaz

Prof. Marcela Ibañez-Diaz is a Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Göttingen. Her research focuses on behavioral and development economics, employing experimental methods to investigate cooperative norms, their impact on development outcomes, and cognitive processes influencing economic decisions. Key areas include altruism, religiosity, institutional effects on prosocial behavior, and policies addressing discrimination, gender inequality, and environmental behavior. She explores mental constraints like risk preferences and cognitive load in decision-making.

Teaching emphasizes development economics from microeconomic and behavioral perspectives. Her work integrates field experiments to evaluate policy interventions. Located at Platz der Göttinger Sieben 5, Room 8.134, her contact details include +49 (0)551 / 39-21662 and mibanez@uni-goettingen.de. No specific grants, awards, or lab affiliations are detailed in the provided text.