Most recent work on Ibero-America conducted by researchers and affiliated researchers:

Prof. Dr. Marcela Ibáñez-Díaz

• Building More Than Homes: How Interior Housing Upgrades Catalyze Welfare and Investment, March 2026
• Building Healthy Homes: The Effect of Housing Improvement and Family Norms on Domestic Violence, March 2026
• Gold mining and social accountability: An empirical approach in Colombia, February 2025

• The Rule of Law, Collective Action, and Growth: Micro Evidence from Peru, February 2026
• The impact of Peru’s land reform on national agricultural productivity: A synthetic control study, October 2025
• Food Distribution Models in Latin America: Unraveling the Effects of Physical Access on Food Security, May 2025
• Food safety certification in urban food markets: the willingness to pay for safer meat in Peru, January 2025

• Elections in Brazil: Whoever Wins Will Be Bound by the Rural Caucus, September 2026
• The speed of aid: Strategic urgency in international emergency relief, June 2025
• Latin America: Germany’s Indispensable Partner, April 2025
• On the Consequences of Trade: Inequality, the Environment, and Aid, March 2025
• The (other) China shock and the Brazilian soy boom: Cui bono?, January 2025