全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Judicial Politics and Sentencing Decisions

G2TT

来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w24615
来源ID	Working Paper 24615
	Judicial Politics and Sentencing Decisions
	Alma Cohen; Crystal Yang
发表日期	2018-05-21
出版年	2018
语种	英语
摘要	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 to 3.0 more months than similar non-blacks and female defendants to 2.0 fewer months than similar males compared to Democratic-appointed judges, 65 percent of the baseline racial sentence gap and 17 percent of the baseline gender sentence gap, respectively. These differences cannot be explained by other judge characteristics and grow substantially larger when judges are granted more discretion.
主题	Public Economics ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; Labor Discrimination ; Other ; Law and Economics
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w24615
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/582289
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Alma Cohen,Crystal Yang. Judicial Politics and Sentencing Decisions. 2018.