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Untangling the Causal Effects of Sex on Judging

  1. Christina L. Boyd1,
  2. Lee Epstein2,
  3. Andrew D. Martin3

Article first published online: 9 APR 2010

DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5907.2010.00437.x

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American Journal of Political Science

American Journal of Political Science

Volume 54, Issue 2, pages 389–411, April 2010

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Boyd, C. L., Epstein, L. and Martin, A. D. (2010), Untangling the Causal Effects of Sex on Judging. American Journal of Political Science, 54: 389–411. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-5907.2010.00437.x

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  1. 1

    University at Buffalo, SUNY

  2. 2

    Northwestern University School of Law

  3. 3

    Washington University in St. Louis

*Winner of the 2008 Pi Sigma Alpha award for the best paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association. We thank the Center for Empirical Research in the Law, the Weidenbaum Center at Washington University, the National Science Foundation, the Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy, and the Northwestern University School of Law for supporting our research; Cass Sunstein, David Schkade, Lisa M. Ellman, and Andres Sawicki for sharing their data; Shari Diamond, Sarah Fischer, William Landes, Kevin Quinn, Richard Posner, Nancy Staudt, Kim Yuracko, the editor and anonymous reviewers of the American Journal of Political Science, and participants at faculty workshops at Dartmouth College, Stony Brook University, the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois, the University of Pennsylvania, and Washington University for providing useful comments; and Delia Bailey, Kathryn Jensen, Hyung Kim, Zachary Levinson, Jessica Silverman, and Jennifer Solomon for supplying excellent research assistance. The project's web site (http://epstein.law.northwestern.edu/research/genderjudging.html) houses a full replication archive, including the data and documentation necessary to reproduce our results.

  1. Christina L. Boyd is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, University at Buffalo, SUNY, 520 Park Hall, Buffalo, NY 14260 (cLboyd@buffalo.edu). Lee Epstein is Henry Wade Rogers Professor, Northwestern University School of Law, 357 E. Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL 60611 (lee-epstein@northwestern.edu). Andrew D. Martin is Professor in the Department of Political Science and School of Law, Washington University in St. Louis, Campus Box 1063, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130 (admartin@wustl.edu).

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