Insiders and Outsiders: Does Forbidding Sexual Harassment Exacerbate Gender Inequality?

Ideas Have Consequences: The Impact of Law and Economics on American Justice

“…For example,Chen and Sethi (2011) use data fromBoyd et al (2010) andSunstein et al (2006), who code 19 case characteristics as determined by the lower court for 415 gender-discrimination Circuit Court cases, and nd that case characteristics are uncorrelated with judicial panel composition. Other papers examine whether the sequence of judges assigned to cases in each Circuit Court mimics a random process.…”

Judicial Compliance in District Courts

“…2 At the Circuit Courts, en banc review of the decision by the full number of judges is possible, but rare. Regarding random assignment, we refer the reader to tests of random assignment of judges in cases on sexual harassment (Chen and Sethi, 2012), eminent domain (Chen and Yeh, 2013), free speech , and abortion . in a variety of settings.…”

How Do Rights Revolutions Occur? Free Speech and the First Amendment

“…Senior judges can opt out of death penalty cases in some Circuits, but they would do so before random assignment. Chen and Sethi (2011) Even if judges are randomly assigned, because our data comprise published opinions, several additional issues need to be considered: settlement, publication, and strategic use of keywords or citation. In Courts of Appeals, judges are revealed very late, after litigants file their briefs, sometimes only a few days before the hearing, if there is a hearing, which gives little opportunity and incentive for settlement upon learning the identity of the panel.…”