Gender Attitudes in the Judiciary: Evidence from U.S. Circuit Courts

Elliott Ash, Daniel L. Chen and Arianna Ornaghi
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Daniel L. Chen: Toulouse School of Economics
Arianna Ornaghi: University of Warwick

QAPEC Discussion Papers from Quantitative and Analytical Political Economy Research Centre

Abstract: Do gender attitudes influence interactions with female judges in U.S. Circuit Courts? In this paper, we propose a novel judge-specific measure of gender attitudes based on use of gender-stereotyped language in the judge’s authored opinions. Exploiting quasi-random assignment of judges to cases and conditioning on judges’ characteristics, we validate the measure showing that slanted judges vote more conservatively in gender-related cases. Slant influences interactions with female colleagues: slanted judges are more likely to reverse lower-court decisions if the lower-court judge is a woman than a man, are less likely to assign opinions to female judges, and cite fewer female authored opinions.

Keywords: Gender attitudes; judiciary; stereotypes; NLP JEL Classification: J70; J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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Journal Article: Gender Attitudes in the Judiciary: Evidence from US Circuit Courts (2024)
Working Paper: Gender attitudes in the judiciary: evidence from U.S. circuit courts (2024)
Working Paper: Gender Attitudes in the Judiciary:Evidence from U.S. Circuit Courts (2020)
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