Visiting Researchers at the Chair of Development Economics (Prof. Marcela Ibañez-Diaz)

From September the following guest researchers will be visiting the Chair of Development Economics of Prof. Marcela Ibañez-Diaz:

From 6 September, the Humboldt Fellow Prof. Ritwik Banerjee will be visiting the Chair for 18 months.
Ritwik Banerjee is an Associate Professor of the economics area at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. His primary research area is at the intersection between behavioral and development economics and he extensively uses experimental methods for his research. Some of the topics he has investigated or is currently investigating are corruption, inequality, education and discrimination.

Prior to his current assignment, Banerjee has worked as postdoctoral research fellow at Aarhus University, Denmark, with an independent grant from the Social Science Research Council of Denmark. Furthermore, he was Visiting Scholar for example at the Universities of Berkeley and Harvard in the US as well as at UNU WIDER in Helsinki, Finland. He has also served as a consultant at the World Bank in Washington, D.C. and as a research associate at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), New Delhi.

Yasmin Doghri will stay in Göttingen from 15 September to 20 December 2022. She is a Ph.D. candidate in socio-economic and statistical studies at the Department of Economics and Law of Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. Her research interests include development economics, behavioral economics, and experimental economics.

Currently, she is working on topics associated with prosocial attitudes as altruistic preferences in terms of parochial and inter-temporal preferences. Her stay is supported by CATIE (Tropical Agriculture Research and Higher Education Center).