The Effect of Own-Gender Juries on Conviction Rates

Hoekstra, Mark; Street, Brittany

doi:10.3386/w25013

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“…When we could not find the name in the TSE data, or the probability of being feminine (masculine) was less than 90%, we manually assigned the gender using internet searches of the authors. 15 Abrevaya and Hamermesh (2012), Hoekstra (2018) and Card, DellaVigna, Funk, and Iriberri (2020) use similar procedures to identify gender.…”

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Are women less persistent? Evidence from submissions to a nationwide meeting of economics

Pereda¹,

Brenck²

2022

Applied Economics

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Female underrepresentation in high-profile career positions has relevant impacts on firms' outcomes and public policies. In the academic profession, women's participation decreases as they evolve in their career. To understand the lack of women in the field of economics in Brazil, we investigate the decision to submit papers to the largest conference in the country (Brazilian Meeting of Economics), as an important achievement in the profession. We explore a novel panel dataset of researchers and match them with web-scraped data of their résumés to test gender differences in the probability of submitting an article one year after having an article (same or new) rejected in the previous year. Our findings suggest that women desist 5.9 percentage points more than men when facing rejection. We also find evidence that younger women give up more and that the quality of the undergraduate program matters to determine the difference in the desistance rate between men and women. We argue that higher quality institutions might self-select women who are more competitive.

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Are women less persistent? Evidence from submissions to a nationwide meeting of economics

Pereda¹,

Brenck²

2022

Applied Economics

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“…For names with a probability greater than 90% of being feminine (masculine), the author's gender was identified as woman (man). 30 From these data we calculated basic statistics on the evolution of women's participation over time.…”

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Gender differences in the academic career of economics in Brazil

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In this paper, we study the underrepresentation of women in economics in Brazil by analysing the evolution of their academic careers and their participation in two leading national economics conferences. To depict the path of women in the profession, we use novel data collected from annual surveys carried out by the Brazilian Women in Economics research group, data from the ANPEC exam, the unified admission exam for graduate programmes in economics and secondary data provided by the two main economics associations in Brazil. We find that it is more difficult for women to progress to tenure, and, therefore, there are “leaks in the academic career pipeline”. There are also persistent gender differences in the choice of research fields, as women mostly research on applied microeconomics.

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“…One historical pre-post design shows that the inclusion of women on juries impacted on conviction rates in female-salient cases [ 23 ], while another found gender effects conditional on race in North Carolina [ 4 ]. Using data from several counties in Florida, Hoekstra and Street [ 5 ] find that own-gender juries result in lower conviction rates for drug charges, but not other charges.…”

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Gender differences in the prosecution of police assault: Evidence from a natural experiment in Sweden

Eck

Crabtree

2020

PLoS ONE

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States often seek to regulate the use of police force though citizen complaint systems. This paper examines these systems, specifically, whether patterns of bias found in other juridical contexts are mirrored in the adjudication of police assault. The analysis focuses on prosecutors as the first instance of adjudication who determine whether to move forward with investigation, effectively deciding the majority of cases. We ask whether prosecutor sex is associated with the probability that a police assault claim will be investigated. We leverage a natural experiment in Sweden where prosecutors are assigned through a modified lottery system, effectively randomizing appointment. Our findings suggest that prosecutor gender plays a role in judicial outcomes: women prosecutors are 16 percentage points more likely to investigate claims of police assault than their male counterparts. These findings have implications for scholars interested in state human rights abuses, democratic institutions, and judicial inequality.

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The Effect of Own-Gender Juries on Conviction Rates

Cited by 7 publications

References 26 publications

Are women less persistent? Evidence from submissions to a nationwide meeting of economics

Are women less persistent? Evidence from submissions to a nationwide meeting of economics

Gender differences in the academic career of economics in Brazil

Gender differences in the prosecution of police assault: Evidence from a natural experiment in Sweden

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