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Ash, Elliott, Asher, Sam, Bhowmick, Aditi, Bhupatiraju, Sandeep, Chen, Daniel L.
, Devi, Tatanya, Goessmann, Christoph, Novosad, Paul and Siddiqi, Bilal
(2022)
Measuring Gender and Religious Bias in the Indian Judiciary.
TSE Working Paper, n. 22-1395, Toulouse
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Abstract
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.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
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| Language: | English |
| Date: | December 2022 |
| Place of Publication: | Toulouse |
| JEL Classification: | J15 - Economics of Minorities and Races; Non-labor Discrimination J16 - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination K4 - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior O12 - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development |
| Subjects: | B- ECONOMIE ET FINANCE |
| Divisions: | TSE-R (Toulouse) |
| Institution: | Université Toulouse 1 Capitole |
| Site: | UT1 |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Dec 2022 13:57 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Jun 2023 07:42 |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:tse-fr.eu:127633 |
| URI: | https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/46525 |
