Mario Macis is Professor of Economics at Johns Hopkins University, Carey Business School. He is also Affiliate Faculty at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).

Prof. Macis is an applied economist whose research examines how markets, policies, and institutions shape behavior in domains where individual decisions have large social consequences. His work spans health economics, labor economics, development economics, behavioral economics, and market design, with a particular focus on settings in which incentives interact with trust, information, social norms, moral values, and institutional legitimacy.

A central theme of his research is how people form attitudes toward markets, regulation, technology, and market-based solutions to social problems, and how these attitudes affect economic and social outcomes. He has studied prosocial health behaviors, morally sensitive markets, trust in health care, health service uptake, labor markets, organizational practices, and the adoption of new technologies.

Prof. Macis has been a consultant for the World Bank, the International Labor Organization, the National Marrow Donor Program, the United Nations Development Programme, and the World Health Organization. He served on a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committee on “A Fairer and More Equitable, Cost-Effective, and Transparent System of Donor Organ Procurement, Allocation, and Distribution.” He also contributed to a United Nations report on the social and economic impact of the Zika virus.

Before joining Johns Hopkins, Prof. Macis was a faculty member at the University of Michigan, Ross School of Business. He received his PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago and his Laurea in Economics and Social Disciplines from Bocconi University in Milan, Italy.

Prof. Macis joined IZA as a Research Fellow in September 2008.