Jobs for Justice(s): Corruption in the Supreme Court of India

Aney, Madhav Shrihari; Dam, Shubhankar; Ko, Giovanni

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“…Having imposed these restrictions, and excluding 33 cases involving first and second degree murder and aggravated rape, we end up with a sample of 9,234 unique case (juvenile) records from a total of 209 judges. 14 Table 1 presents the descriptive statistics for juveniles and judges. Panel A displays juvenile attributes while panel B presents judge characteristics.…”

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Emotional Judges and Unlucky Juveniles

Eren

Mocan

2018

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

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Employing the universe of juvenile court decisions in a US state between 1996 and 2012, we analyze the effects of emotional shocks associated with unexpected outcomes of football games played by a prominent college team in the state. We find that unexpected losses increase sentence lengths assigned by judges during the week following the game. Unexpected wins, or losses that were expected to be close contests ex ante have no impact. The effects of these emotional shocks are asymmetrically borne by black defendants. The impact of upset losses on sentence lengths is larger for defendants if their cases are handled by judges who received their bachelor's degrees from the university with which the football team is affiliated. Different falsification tests and a number of auxiliary analyses demonstrate the robustness of the findings. These results provide evidence for the impact of emotions in one domain on decisions in a completely unrelated domain among a uniformly highly educated group of individuals (judges) who make decisions after deliberation that involve high stakes (sentence lengths). They also point to the existence of a subtle and previously unnoticed capricious application of sentencing. (JEL D83, I23, J13, J15, K42, L83, Z21)

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Section: A Defendant Data and Lsu College Football Team Recordsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Emotional Judges and Unlucky Juveniles

Eren

Mocan

2018

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

100

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The Role of Justice in Development: The Data Revolution

Maqueda¹,

Chen²

2021

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The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the views of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World Bank and its affiliated organizations, or those of the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent.

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Jobs for Justice(s): Corruption in the Supreme Court of India

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Emotional Judges and Unlucky Juveniles

Emotional Judges and Unlucky Juveniles

The Role of Justice in Development: The Data Revolution

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