Dr. Luise Görges

Dr. Luise Görges is Acting Professor of Economics, with a research focus on empirical health economics, at the University of Hamburg, and Junior Professor of Economics, in particular Microeconomics (currently on leave), at Leuphana University Lüneburg. She received her PhD in Economics from the University of Hamburg in 2018 and subsequently worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), before joining Leuphana University in 2020.

Luise Görges’ research explores how social norms and institutional frameworks shape economic behaviour and contribute to social inequalities — particularly in the domains of labour, health, family, and gender. Her methodological approach uses behavioural and experimental economics as well as microeconometric analysis of survey and administrative data.

A central focus of her work lies in the empirical investigation of gender norms and their influence on individual decision-making within households and in the labour market. Additional research interests include the role of law in shaping norms, the long-term effects of exposure to gender equality on women’s economic outcomes, and gender differences in preferences for income responsibility within couples.

In 2019, she was awarded the Gender Award by the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Hamburg for her dissertation. Since 2020, she has also been co-founder and co-host of the podcast “Herzkopfen”, which presents research in economics and the social sciences to a broader public in an accessible and engaging format.