%S TSE Working Paper
%A Elliott Ash
%A Sam Asher
%A Aditi Bhowmick
%A Sandeep Bhupatiraju
%A Daniel L. Chen
%A Tatanya Devi
%A Christoph Goessmann
%A Paul Novosad
%A Bilal Siddiqi
%T Measuring Gender and Religious Bias in the Indian Judiciary
%X We study judicial in-group bias in Indian criminal courts, collecting data onover 80 million legal case records from 2010–2018. We exploit quasi-random assignment of judges and changes in judge cohorts to examine whether defendant outcomes are affected by being assigned to a judge with a similar religious or gender identity. We estimate tight zero effects of in-group bias. The upper end of our 95% confidence interval rejects effect sizes that are one-fifth of those in most of the prior literature.
%B TSE Working Paper
%V 22-1395
%D 2022
%C Toulouse
%I TSE Working Paper
%L publications46525