Katharina Brütt, who explores the question of:
When Gender Favoritism Fades: Intersectionality and the Limits of Self-Image

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Katharina examines how intersectionality alters the expression of gender-based stereotypes in economic allocation decisions. Based on a self-signaling theory, she and her team propose that adding identity dimensions beyond gender decreases the self-image premium from favoring usually disadvantaged individuals. In the seminar, Katharine discusses about her findings that reveal that in candidate-selection decisions, women are favored when gender is the sole observable identity, consistent with self-image concerns and even though intersectionality reverses explicit gender favoritism, competence beliefs are not affected.