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Professional Interactions and Hiring Decisions : Evidence from the Federal Judiciary

Battaglini, Marco; Harris, Jorgen; Patacchini, Eleonora - 2022

We examine the effect of hearing cases alongside female judicial colleagues on the probability that a federal judge hires a female law clerk. Federal judges are assigned to cases and to judicial panels at random and have few limitations on their choices of law clerks: these two features make the...

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The Impact of Student Debt on Education, Career, and Marriage Choices of Female Lawyers

Sieg, Holger - 2017

choices of young female lawyers. Our model accounts for several important institutional features of the labor market for … lawyers, including differences in the work hours across occupational tracks and learning about the prospects of promotion to … marriage prospects, career prospects, and investments in educational quality of female lawyers. The analysis also provides new …

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Judicial Politics and Sentencing Decisions

Cohen, Alma - 2018

This paper investigates whether judge political affiliation contributes to racial and gender disparities in sentencing using data on over 500,000 federal defendants linked to sentencing judge. Exploiting random case assignment, we find that Republican-appointed judges sentence black defendants...

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Is Your Lawyer a Lemon? Incentives and Selection in the Public Provision of Criminal Defense

Agan, Amanda - 2018

-attorney differences across cases in which they are assigned versus retained. The selection of low-quality lawyers into assigned counsel …

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Racial Bias and In-Group Bias in Judicial Decisions : Evidence from Virtual Reality Courtrooms

Bielen, Samantha - 2018

students, economics students, practicing lawyers and judges are randomly assigned to watch with VR headsets, the trials that … a small sample of judges and prosecutors with the sample of lawyers provides results that are very similar to those … obtained from the analysis of lawyers.Institutional subscribers to the NBER working paper series, and residents of developing …

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The Effect of Pollution and Heat on High Skill Public Sector Worker Productivity in China

Kahn, Matthew E. - 2019

The quality of governance depends on public sector worker productivity. We use micro data from China to document that judges are less productive on polluted days. Building on the insights of Alchian and Kessel (1962), we discuss the role of organization design and the incentives of public versus...

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Judging Judge Fixed Effects

Frandsen, Brigham R. - 2019

We propose a test for the identifying assumptions invoked in designs based on random assignment to one of many "judges.'' We show that standard identifying assumptions imply that the conditional expectation of the outcome given judge assignment is a continuous function with bounded slope of the...

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The Market for Lawyers : The Determinants of the Demand for and Supply Oflawyers

Pashigian (Deceased), B. Peter - 2021

Some additional evidence on the comparative effect of income, regulation, and other variables on the demand for lawyers … demand for lawyers. Section I presents a theoretical model of the demand for and supply of lawyers. The empirical … compares the actual number of lawyers with the number that would have existed if lawyers earned a normal return on their …

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Beauty, Productivity and Discrimination : Lawyers' Looks and Lucre

Biddle, Jeff; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2021

or because better-looking lawyers are able to obtain greater pecuniary gains for their clients …

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Don't Spread Yourself Too Thin : The Impact of Task Juggling on Workers' Speed of Job Completion

Coviello, Decio - 2011

We show that task juggling, i.e., the spreading of effort across too many active projects, decreases the performance of workers, raising the chances of low throughput, long duration of projects and exploding backlogs. Individual speed of job completion cannot be explained only in terms of...

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