12 & 13/11/2026 - Foyer Royal - Aula Magna
Please register via this form :Identity and Policy Design workshop
Economic decisions are often shaped by social identity, through norms, group membership, or self-image. The study of its implications for behavior is expanding to an increasingly broad set of groups and norms (e.g., gender, race, class, age, caste), and its normative implications are receiving growing attention. In this workshop, we aim to bring together researchers working on theory and empirics, on positive and normative questions alike, to inform better policy design.
Organisers: Eve Colson -Sihra, François Maniquet, Amma Panin
Program
Day 1, Thursday 12th November
12:30 | Arrival of participants and lunch |
13:45 | Welcome from conference organisers:
François Maniquet, Amma Panin and Eve Colson Sihra Francesca Monti, CORE Research Director |
14:00 | Keynote: Nicola Gennaioli (Bocconi University)
"Cognitive Economics"
Chair: Amma Panin |
15:00 | Coffee break |
| | Session: Work and hiring | Chair: Joseph Gomes |
15:30 | Suanna Oh (Paris School of Economics)
"Absent but Not Idle: the Social Roots of Demand for Flexible Work" |
16:15 | Lore Vandewalle (KU Leuven)
"Hiring Women vs. Hiring Men: Experimental Evidence on Workers and Firms in Bangladesh" |
17:00 | Véronique Gille (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement and Université Paris-Dauphine)
"Merit, Identity, and Redistribution: Experimental Evidence on Affirmative Action" |
17:45 | End of day 1 |
19:00 | Conference dinner (by invitation) |
Day 2, Friday 13th November
08:30 | Welcome with coffee |
| | Session: Norms and social pressure | Chair: Benoît Decerf |
09:00 | Eve Colson-Sihra (The University of Edinburgh)
"The Malleability of Gender Differentiation: Evidence from the Meat Gender Gap" |
09:45 | Max Mueller (Toulouse School of Economics)
"Under Parents' Watch: The Effect of Parental Observability on Educational Choices" |
10:30 | Coffee break |
11:00 | Marc Fleurbaey (Paris School of Economics)
"Markets, norms, and the crowding out of personal relationships" |
11:45 | Poster pitches |
12:15 | Poster session and walking lunch |
| | Session: Narratives | Chair: Johannes Johnen |
14:00 | Mohamed Saleh (The London School of Economics and Political Science)
"Narrative Morphing: A Historical Political Economy Approach" |
14:45 | Karine Moukaddem (UCLouvain)
"Media Narratives, Violence Against Women, and Women's Autonomy in Post-Uprising Egypt" |
15:30 | Coffee break |
| | Session: Groups and homophily | Chair: Eve Colson-Sihra |
16:00 | Yann Bramoullé (Aix-Marseille University)
"Axiomatic foundations of homophily measures with continuous characteristics" |
16:45 | Anujit Chakraborty (University of California, Davis)
"Learning About Outgroups: The Impact of Broad Versus Deep Interactions" |
17:30 | Closing drink |
18:15 | End of the conference |
Poster Presenters
- Auguste Debroise, UNamur
- Mathilde Sage, UNamur and UCLouvain
- Justin Mutambeshya, KU Leuven
- Lore Vandewalle, KU Leuven
- Martin Fernandez Sanchez, LISER
- Amma Panin, UCLouvain
- François Maniquet, UCLouvain
- Clarice Manuel, UCLouvain
- Sonia Giurumescu, UCLouvain
