Dr Dina Rabie

Dina Rabie is a behavioural/experimental economist who is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, and an Assistant Professor in Economics at Northeastern University London.

Dr Rabie is the Scientific Advisor and Co-founder of the Experimental and Behavioural Economics Laboratory (EBEL) at the British University in Egypt (BUE); a unique laboratory in the Arabic-speaking Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region founded in cooperation with the Research Laboratory of the University of Hamburg (UHH) in 2018. Dr Rabie is the organizer of the BUE-EBEL Annual International Meeting in Behavioural and Experimental Economics series.

Dr Rabie is a team member in the European Research Council project "The Cultural Logic of Honour and Social Interaction: A Cross-Cultural Comparison (HonourLogic)", PI: Prof. Ayse Uskul, University of Sussex. Dr Rabie also contributed to The Arab Databank of Law and Economics, University of Hamburg (UHH), throughout her visiting research positions at the Institute of Law and Economics, UHH, from 2015 to 2022.

Dr Rabie obtained her PhD degree in Economics from the University of Hamburg, Germany, in May 2021. She held the positions of a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Economics at the British University in Egypt in 2021-22 and Assistant Lecturer in Economics at the same University from 2013 to 2021. Dr Rabie held the position of a Research Fellow and the Experimental Laboratory Manager at Nottingham Trent University Business School from February 2022 to September 2023.

Selected Publications in Peer-reviewed Journals

1. Jin, S., Romano, A., Vignoles, V. L., Kirchner-Häusler, A., Rodríguez-Bailón, R., Cross, S. E., Yalçın, M.J., Harb, C., Husnu, S., Ishii, K., Karamouna, P., Kafetsios, K., Kateri, E., Matamaros-Lima, J., Miniesy, R., Na, J., Pagliaro, S., Psaltis, C., Rabie, D., Teresi, M., Uchida, Y, & Uskul, A. K.. (accepted). "Honor, Competition and Cooperation across 13 Societies". Nature Human Behaviour.

2. Rabie, D. & El-Bialy, N. (accepted) "Attitudes towards Islamic Inheritance: Religiosity or Patriarchal Preferences?" Review of Law and Economics.

3. Rabie, D., Rashwan, M., & Miniesy, R. (2024), "Fasting and Honesty: An Experimental Evidence from Egypt." Economic Inquiry, 62, 1353-1368.

4. Lange, A., Miniesy, R., Nicklisch A., Rabie, D., Bock, O., & Ross, J. (2023) "Sharing Norms and Negotiations Across Cultures: Experimental Interactions within and between Egypt and Germany." Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 210, 412-440.

5. Kirchner-Hausler, A., Schonbrodt, F. D., Uskul, A. K., Vignoles, V. L., Rodriguez-Bailon, R., Castillo, V. A., Cross, S. E., Gezici-Yalcin, M., Harb, C., Husnu, S., Ishii, K., Karamaouna, P., Kafetsios, K., Kateri, E., Matamoros-Lima, J., Miniesy, R., Na, J., Ozkan, Z., Pagliaro, S., Psaltis, C., Rabie, D., Teresi, M., & Uchida, Y. (2023). "Neither Eastern norWestern: Patterns of Independence and Interdependence in Mediterranean Societies." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 125(3), 471.

6. KirchnerHäusler, A., Schönbrodt, F. D., Uskul, A. K., Vignoles, V. L., RodriguezBailón, R., Castillo, V. A., Cross, S. E., Gezici-Yalcin, M., Harb, C., Husnu, S., Ishii, K., Karamaouna, P., Kafetsios, K., Kateri, E., Matamoros-Lima, J., Miniesy, R., Na, J., Ozkan, Z., Pagliaro, S., Psaltis, C., Rabie, D., Teresi, M., & Uchida, Y. (2023) "Cultural Fit in Emotions and Subjective Well-Being: Replicating Comparative Evidence and Extending it to the Mediterranean and MENA Regions." Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, 5, 100171.

7. Kirchner-Hausler, A., Schonbrodt, F. D., Uskul, A. K., Vignoles, V. L., Rodriguez-Bailon, R., Castillo, V. A., Cross, S. E., Gezici-Yalcin, M., Harb, C., Husnu, S., Ishii, K., Karamaouna, P., Kafetsios, K., Kateri, E., Matamoros-Lima, J., Miniesy, R., Na, J., Ozkan, Z., Pagliaro, S., Psaltis, C., Rabie, D., Teresi, M., & Uchida, Y. (Dec. 2022). "Proximal and Distal Honor Fit and Subjective Well-Being in the Mediterranean Region." Journal of Personality, 92(1), 38-54.

Other Publications

1. Rabie, D. & Sevilla, A. (2025). Banning NDAs in Universities: A First Step Toward a Better Culture in the Economic Profession. Royal Economic Society.

Work in Progress

1. Rabie, D., Nicklisch, A., & Muehlheusser, G., "Are Higher Order Risk Preferences Correlated with Choice Inconsistency in Time and Risk Games?"

2. Rabie, D., Jin, S., Uskul, A. K., Lee, J., Miniesy, R., Na, J. "Masculinity, Religiosity or Other? Beliefs about Women's Cooperation and Punishment Behaviour in Egypt, South Korea, and the United Kingdom".

3. Rabie, D., Franco Vega, I., Fasolo, B., Galizzi, M. M., Henz, U., Chadborn, T. & Martinus, A. ``Parenting Programme Uptake and Retention in Low and Middle Income Countries: Strategic Behavioural Analysis".

Dr Rabie's research focuses on understanding the individual decision-making process, and how differences in cultures and institutions may influence individual behaviour. To address these questions, Dr Rabie conducts both fundamental research in economics, and behavioural research at the intersection of economics and psychology, providing new applications to standing economic theories and building on theoretical insights from the psychology literature. In her research, Dr Rabie employs students and non-students subjects pools and collaborates on multiple multi-country research projects.