eprintid: 23538 rev_number: 18 eprint_status: archive userid: 1482 importid: 105 dir: disk0/00/02/35/38 datestamp: 2018-03-15 10:38:22 lastmod: 2024-05-21 11:36:40 status_changed: 2024-05-21 11:36:40 type: monograph metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Chen, Daniel L. creators_name: Frankenreiter, Jens creators_name: Fillin-Yeh, Susan creators_idrefppn: 241586631 creators_idrefppn: 122652452 creators_halaffid: 1002422;441569 title: Judicial Compliance in District Courts ispublished: pub subjects: subjects_ECO abstract: Public enforcement of law relies on the use of public agents, such as judges, to follow the law. Are judges motivated only by strategic interests and ideology, as many models posit, rather than a duty to follow the law? We use the random assignment of U.S. Federal judges setting geographically-local precedent to document the causal impact of court decisions in a hierarchical legal system. We examine lower court cases filed before and resolved after higher court decisions and find that lower courts are 29-37% points more likely to rule in the manner of the higher court. The results obtain when the higher court case was decided in the same doctrinal area as the pending case and when the higher court case was decided on the merits. Reversals by the higher court have no significant effects. These results provide clean evidence that judges are motivated to follow the law and are not solely motivated by policy preferences. date: 2016-10 date_type: published publisher: IAST Working Paper official_url: http://iast.fr/pub/31136 faculty: tse divisions: tse language: en has_fulltext: TRUE view_date_year: 2016 full_text_status: public monograph_type: working_paper series: IAST Working Paper volume: 16-55 place_of_pub: Toulouse pages: 46 institution: Université Toulouse Capitole department: Toulouse School of Economics book_title: IAST Working Paper oai_identifier: oai:tse-fr.eu:31136 harvester_local_overwrite: department harvester_local_overwrite: faculty harvester_local_overwrite: institution harvester_local_overwrite: place_of_pub harvester_local_overwrite: pages harvester_local_overwrite: creators_name harvester_local_overwrite: creators_idrefppn harvester_local_overwrite: pending harvester_local_overwrite: creators_halaffid oai_lastmod: 2024-05-06T07:18:53Z oai_set: tse site: ut1 citation: Chen, Daniel L. , Frankenreiter, Jens and Fillin-Yeh, Susan (2016) Judicial Compliance in District Courts. IAST Working Paper, n. 16-55, Toulouse document_url: https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/23538/1/Judicial_Compliance_in_District_Courts_IRLE.pdf