WiE Brown Bag Seminar - June

Join us for our sixth session of the WiE Brown Bag Seminar in 2026 featuring Katharina Brütt, an Assistant Professor at theVrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) at the School of Business and Economics and a candidate fellow at the Tinbergen Institute. Her research focuses on behavioural and experimental economics, with a particular emphasis on how beliefs are formed and how inaccurate beliefs shape the influence of gender and social identity in economic contexts. She is presenting joint work with Klarita Gërxhani and Arthur Schram.

When Gender Favoritism Fades: Intersectionality and the Limits of Self-Image

Abstract: 

We examine how intersectionality alters the expression of gender-based stereotypes in economic allocation decisions. Based on a self-signaling theory, we propose that adding identity dimensions beyond gender decreases the self-image premium from favoring usually disadvantaged individuals. We test this prediction in a multi-part experiment combining laboratory and field data from eight subject pools defined by gender,…