Identifying Judicial Empathy
Does Having Daughters Cause Judges to Rule for Women's Issues
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6229409 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Adam N Glynn (0000-0001-9038-9598, Emory University), Adam Glynn (Emory University), Malcolm Sen (0000-0001-5090-0814, Harvard University Press), Maya Sen (Harvard University) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 37-54 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0092-5853 • E-ISSN: 1540-5907 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/ajps.12118 |
| OpenAlex | W2152781747 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 83 |
| References cited | 45 |
In this article, we consider whether personal relationships can affect the way that judges decide cases. To do so, we leverage the natural experiment of a child's gender to identify the effect of having daughters on the votes of judges. Using new data on the family lives of U.S. Courts of Appeals judges, we find that, conditional on the number of children a judge has, judges with daughters consistently vote in a more feminist fashion on gender issues than judges who have only sons. This result survives a number of robustness tests and appears to be driven primarily by Republican judges. More broadly, this result demonstrates that personal experiences influence how judges make decisions, and this is the first article to show that empathy may indeed be a component in how judges decide cases
Affect (linguistics · Empathy · Leverage (statistics · Political science · Computer Science · Gender Politics and Representation · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Legal and Constitutional Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 83 |
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| Citations per year | 7,55 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 83 |