法官的性格重要吗?德克萨斯州初审法院的种族、性别和党派关系

IF 1 3区社会学 Q3 ECONOMICS

American Law and Economics Review Pub Date : 2016-10-01 DOI:10.1093/ALER/AHW006

C. Lim, Bernardo S. Silveira, J. Snyder

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摘要

我们探讨了政府官员的行为如何随其种族、性别和政治取向而变化。具体来说，我们使用2004年至2013年大约50万起刑事案件的数据，分析了德克萨斯州地方法院的刑事判决。我们利用县内的随机案例分配，精确估计了法官的种族、性别和政治倾向的影响，这些影响在地理因素的条件下接近于零。然而，我们发现不同法官在量刑上存在很大的异质性。利用德克萨斯州地方法院独特的重叠结构，我们发现没有证据表明这种异质性是由法官迎合选民造成的。

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Do Judges’ Characteristics Matter? Ethnicity, Gender, and Partisanship in Texas State Trial Courts

We explore how government officials’ behavior varies with their ethnicity, gender, and political orientation. Specifically, we analyze criminal sentencing decisions in Texas state district courts using data on approximately half a million criminal cases from 2004 to 2013. We exploit randomized case assignments within counties and obtain precisely estimated effects of judges’ ethnicity, gender, and political orientation that are near zero, conditional on geographic factors. However, we find substantial cross-judge heterogeneity in sentencing. Exploiting a unique overlapping structure of Texas state district courts, we find no evidence that this heterogeneity is driven by judges pandering to voters.

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期刊介绍： The rise of the field of law and economics has been extremely rapid over the last 25 years. Among important developments of the 1990s has been the founding of the American Law and Economics Association. The creation and rapid expansion of the ALEA and the creation of parallel associations in Europe, Latin America, and Canada attest to the growing acceptance of the economic perspective on law by judges, practitioners, and policy-makers.