Untangling the Causal Effects of Sex on Judging
dc.contributor.author | Boyd, Christina L. | |
dc.contributor.author | Epstein, Lee | |
dc.contributor.author | Martin, Andrew D. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-12-04T15:57:04Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-12-04T15:57:04Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2010-04 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Christina L. Boyd, Lee Epstein, and Andrew D. Martin. 2010. “Untangling the Causal Effects of Sex on Judging.” American Journal of Political Science. 54: 389-411. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/116101 | |
dc.description.abstract | We explore the role of sex in judging by addressing two questions of long-standing interest to political scientists: whether and in what ways male and female judges decide cases distinctly—“individual effects”—and whether and in what ways serving with a female judge causes males to behave differently—“panel effects.” While we attend to the dominant theoretical accounts of why we might expect to observe either or both effects, we do not use the predominant statistical tools to assess them. Instead, we deploy a more appropriate methodology: semiparametric matching, which follows from a formal framework for causal inference. Applying matching methods to 13 areas of law, we observe consistent gender effects in only one—sex discrimination. For these disputes, the probability of a judge deciding in favor of the party alleging discrimination decreases by about 10 percentage points when the judge is a male. Likewise, when a woman serves on a panel with men, the men are significantly more likely to rule in favor of the rights litigant. These results are consistent with an informational account of gendered judging and are inconsistent with several others | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc. | en_US |
dc.title | Untangling the Causal Effects of Sex on Judging | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Political Science | |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | LSA Dean's Office | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | University at Buffalo, SUNY | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Northwestern University School of Law | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/116101/1/ajps10.pdf | |
dc.identifier.source | American Journal of Political Science | en_US |
dc.identifier.orcid | 0000-0002-6532-0721 | en_US |
dc.identifier.name-orcid | Martin, Andrew; 0000-0002-6532-0721 | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Political Science |
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