A presentation by Arianna Ornaghi (Hertie School). This event is part of the Political Economy Lunch Seminar (PELS).
Do gender attitudes influence interactions with female judges in US 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 womanthan aman, are less likely to assign opinions to female judges, and cite fewer female-authored opinions.
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