Identity and Policy Design workshop

November 12 & 13, 2026

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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 and 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-Sirha
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
Martin Fernandez Sanchez, LISER
Amma Panin, UCLouvain
François Maniquet, UCLouvain
Clarice Manuel, UCLouvain
Sonia Giurumescu, UCLouvain

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Identity and Policy Design workshop

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November 12 & 13, 2026

Program

Day 1, Thursday 12th November

Day 2, Friday 13th November