Identifying Judicial Empathy: Does Having Daughters Cause Judges to Rule for Women's Issues?
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 Appea...
Gespeichert in:
| Veröffentlicht in: | American journal of political science 2015-01, Vol.59 (1), p.37-54 |
|---|---|
| Hauptverfasser: | , |
| Format: | Artikel |
| Sprache: | eng |
| Schlagworte: | |
| Online-Zugang: | Volltext |
| Tags: |
Tag hinzufügen
Keine Tags, Fügen Sie den ersten Tag hinzu!
|
| container_end_page | 54 |
|---|---|
| container_issue | 1 |
| container_start_page | 37 |
| container_title | American journal of political science |
| container_volume | 59 |
| creator | Glynn, Adam N. Sen, Maya |
| description | 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. |
| doi_str_mv | 10.1111/ajps.12118 |
| format | Article |
| fullrecord | <record><control><sourceid>jstor_proqu</sourceid><recordid>TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1718062165</recordid><sourceformat>XML</sourceformat><sourcesystem>PC</sourcesystem><jstor_id>24363595</jstor_id><sourcerecordid>24363595</sourcerecordid><originalsourceid>FETCH-LOGICAL-c5298-83ef54bd08f79cb5e8a4e56b31736082d4664ac81cb8b7b027472faa002aea803</originalsourceid><addsrcrecordid>eNqFkc1P20AQxVeolUihF-6VVuqhFZLpfu-6lwoSCkGoRXwoPVRarZ11cHC8Ycem5L-vXQOHHtq5jEbv92Y0egjtUXJAu_rklms4oIxSs4VGVAqSyJToV2hESMoSaSTfRm8AlqSbRcpH6Od07uumLDZlvcBn7bzMS1fh49XaNbebz3gSPOBT99CrE9cubhsfAY9dC76nF53aBHzZVh4XIeJZWPn6A-ApQOvhyy56XbgK_NunvoNuvh5fj0-T8-8n0_HheZJLlprEcF9Ikc2JKXSaZ9IbJ7xUGaeaK2LYXCglXG5onplMZ4RpoVnhHCHMeWcI30Efh73rGO67w41dlZD7qnK1Dy1YqqkhilEl_48qybhKidAd-v4vdBnaWHePdJSQUitK-9v7A5XHABB9YdexXLm4sZTYPhPbZ2L_ZNLBdIB_lZXf_IO0h2cXV8-ed4NnCU2ILx4muOIy7T9KBr2Exj--6C7eWaW5lnb27cROflyJiyNh7Iz_BkUYpTA</addsrcrecordid><sourcetype>Aggregation Database</sourcetype><iscdi>true</iscdi><recordtype>article</recordtype><pqid>1645576110</pqid></control><display><type>article</type><title>Identifying Judicial Empathy: Does Having Daughters Cause Judges to Rule for Women's Issues?</title><source>Worldwide Political Science Abstracts</source><source>Wiley-Blackwell Full Collection</source><source>JSTOR</source><creator>Glynn, Adam N. ; Sen, Maya</creator><creatorcontrib>Glynn, Adam N. ; Sen, Maya</creatorcontrib><description>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.</description><identifier>ISSN: 0092-5853</identifier><identifier>EISSN: 1540-5907</identifier><identifier>DOI: 10.1111/ajps.12118</identifier><identifier>CODEN: AJPLB4</identifier><language>eng</language><publisher>Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd</publisher><subject>Appellate courts ; Children ; Clothing Industry ; Courts ; Daughters ; Empathy ; Employment discrimination ; Experiments ; Females ; Feminism ; Gender discrimination ; Interpersonal relations ; Judges ; Judges & magistrates ; Judicial discretion ; Liberalism ; Parents & parenting ; Republicanism ; Sex ; Sons ; Textile Industry ; U.S.A ; Votes ; Voting ; Voting Behavior ; Women</subject><ispartof>American journal of political science, 2015-01, Vol.59 (1), p.37-54</ispartof><rights>2015 Midwest Political Science Association</rights><rights>2014, Midwest Political Science Association</rights><rights>2015 by the Midwest Political Science Association</rights><lds50>peer_reviewed</lds50><oa>free_for_read</oa><woscitedreferencessubscribed>false</woscitedreferencessubscribed><citedby>FETCH-LOGICAL-c5298-83ef54bd08f79cb5e8a4e56b31736082d4664ac81cb8b7b027472faa002aea803</citedby><cites>FETCH-LOGICAL-c5298-83ef54bd08f79cb5e8a4e56b31736082d4664ac81cb8b7b027472faa002aea803</cites></display><links><openurl>$$Topenurl_article</openurl><openurlfulltext>$$Topenurlfull_article</openurlfulltext><thumbnail>$$Tsyndetics_thumb_exl</thumbnail><linktopdf>$$Uhttps://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/24363595$$EPDF$$P50$$Gjstor$$H</linktopdf><linktohtml>$$Uhttps://www.jstor.org/stable/24363595$$EHTML$$P50$$Gjstor$$H</linktohtml><link.rule.ids>314,776,780,799,1411,27901,27902,45550,45551,57992,58225</link.rule.ids></links><search><creatorcontrib>Glynn, Adam N.</creatorcontrib><creatorcontrib>Sen, Maya</creatorcontrib><title>Identifying Judicial Empathy: Does Having Daughters Cause Judges to Rule for Women's Issues?</title><title>American journal of political science</title><addtitle>American Journal of Political Science</addtitle><description>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.</description><subject>Appellate courts</subject><subject>Children</subject><subject>Clothing Industry</subject><subject>Courts</subject><subject>Daughters</subject><subject>Empathy</subject><subject>Employment discrimination</subject><subject>Experiments</subject><subject>Females</subject><subject>Feminism</subject><subject>Gender discrimination</subject><subject>Interpersonal relations</subject><subject>Judges</subject><subject>Judges & magistrates</subject><subject>Judicial discretion</subject><subject>Liberalism</subject><subject>Parents & parenting</subject><subject>Republicanism</subject><subject>Sex</subject><subject>Sons</subject><subject>Textile Industry</subject><subject>U.S.A</subject><subject>Votes</subject><subject>Voting</subject><subject>Voting Behavior</subject><subject>Women</subject><issn>0092-5853</issn><issn>1540-5907</issn><fulltext>true</fulltext><rsrctype>article</rsrctype><creationdate>2015</creationdate><recordtype>article</recordtype><sourceid>7UB</sourceid><recordid>eNqFkc1P20AQxVeolUihF-6VVuqhFZLpfu-6lwoSCkGoRXwoPVRarZ11cHC8Ycem5L-vXQOHHtq5jEbv92Y0egjtUXJAu_rklms4oIxSs4VGVAqSyJToV2hESMoSaSTfRm8AlqSbRcpH6Od07uumLDZlvcBn7bzMS1fh49XaNbebz3gSPOBT99CrE9cubhsfAY9dC76nF53aBHzZVh4XIeJZWPn6A-ApQOvhyy56XbgK_NunvoNuvh5fj0-T8-8n0_HheZJLlprEcF9Ikc2JKXSaZ9IbJ7xUGaeaK2LYXCglXG5onplMZ4RpoVnhHCHMeWcI30Efh73rGO67w41dlZD7qnK1Dy1YqqkhilEl_48qybhKidAd-v4vdBnaWHePdJSQUitK-9v7A5XHABB9YdexXLm4sZTYPhPbZ2L_ZNLBdIB_lZXf_IO0h2cXV8-ed4NnCU2ILx4muOIy7T9KBr2Exj--6C7eWaW5lnb27cROflyJiyNh7Iz_BkUYpTA</recordid><startdate>201501</startdate><enddate>201501</enddate><creator>Glynn, Adam N.</creator><creator>Sen, Maya</creator><general>Blackwell Publishing Ltd</general><general>Wiley Subscription Services, Inc</general><scope>BSCLL</scope><scope>AAYXX</scope><scope>CITATION</scope><scope>7UB</scope><scope>8BJ</scope><scope>FQK</scope><scope>JBE</scope></search><sort><creationdate>201501</creationdate><title>Identifying Judicial Empathy: Does Having Daughters Cause Judges to Rule for Women's Issues?</title><author>Glynn, Adam N. ; Sen, Maya</author></sort><facets><frbrtype>5</frbrtype><frbrgroupid>cdi_FETCH-LOGICAL-c5298-83ef54bd08f79cb5e8a4e56b31736082d4664ac81cb8b7b027472faa002aea803</frbrgroupid><rsrctype>articles</rsrctype><prefilter>articles</prefilter><language>eng</language><creationdate>2015</creationdate><topic>Appellate courts</topic><topic>Children</topic><topic>Clothing Industry</topic><topic>Courts</topic><topic>Daughters</topic><topic>Empathy</topic><topic>Employment discrimination</topic><topic>Experiments</topic><topic>Females</topic><topic>Feminism</topic><topic>Gender discrimination</topic><topic>Interpersonal relations</topic><topic>Judges</topic><topic>Judges & magistrates</topic><topic>Judicial discretion</topic><topic>Liberalism</topic><topic>Parents & parenting</topic><topic>Republicanism</topic><topic>Sex</topic><topic>Sons</topic><topic>Textile Industry</topic><topic>U.S.A</topic><topic>Votes</topic><topic>Voting</topic><topic>Voting Behavior</topic><topic>Women</topic><toplevel>peer_reviewed</toplevel><toplevel>online_resources</toplevel><creatorcontrib>Glynn, Adam N.</creatorcontrib><creatorcontrib>Sen, Maya</creatorcontrib><collection>Istex</collection><collection>CrossRef</collection><collection>Worldwide Political Science Abstracts</collection><collection>International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)</collection><collection>International Bibliography of the Social Sciences</collection><collection>International Bibliography of the Social Sciences</collection><jtitle>American journal of political science</jtitle></facets><delivery><delcategory>Remote Search Resource</delcategory><fulltext>fulltext</fulltext></delivery><addata><au>Glynn, Adam N.</au><au>Sen, Maya</au><format>journal</format><genre>article</genre><ristype>JOUR</ristype><atitle>Identifying Judicial Empathy: Does Having Daughters Cause Judges to Rule for Women's Issues?</atitle><jtitle>American journal of political science</jtitle><addtitle>American Journal of Political Science</addtitle><date>2015-01</date><risdate>2015</risdate><volume>59</volume><issue>1</issue><spage>37</spage><epage>54</epage><pages>37-54</pages><issn>0092-5853</issn><eissn>1540-5907</eissn><coden>AJPLB4</coden><abstract>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.</abstract><cop>Oxford</cop><pub>Blackwell Publishing Ltd</pub><doi>10.1111/ajps.12118</doi><tpages>18</tpages><oa>free_for_read</oa></addata></record> |
| fulltext | fulltext |
| identifier | ISSN: 0092-5853 |
| ispartof | American journal of political science, 2015-01, Vol.59 (1), p.37-54 |
| issn | 0092-5853 1540-5907 |
| language | eng |
| recordid | cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1718062165 |
| source | Worldwide Political Science Abstracts; Wiley-Blackwell Full Collection; JSTOR |
| subjects | Appellate courts Children Clothing Industry Courts Daughters Empathy Employment discrimination Experiments Females Feminism Gender discrimination Interpersonal relations Judges Judges & magistrates Judicial discretion Liberalism Parents & parenting Republicanism Sex Sons Textile Industry U.S.A Votes Voting Voting Behavior Women |
| title | Identifying Judicial Empathy: Does Having Daughters Cause Judges to Rule for Women's Issues? |
| url | https://sfx.bib-bvb.de/sfx_tum?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&ctx_tim=2025-02-07T16%3A44%3A00IST&url_ver=Z39.88-2004&url_ctx_fmt=infofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rfr_id=info:sid/primo.exlibrisgroup.com:primo3-Article-jstor_proqu&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Identifying%20Judicial%20Empathy:%20Does%20Having%20Daughters%20Cause%20Judges%20to%20Rule%20for%20Women's%20Issues?&rft.jtitle=American%20journal%20of%20political%20science&rft.au=Glynn,%20Adam%20N.&rft.date=2015-01&rft.volume=59&rft.issue=1&rft.spage=37&rft.epage=54&rft.pages=37-54&rft.issn=0092-5853&rft.eissn=1540-5907&rft.coden=AJPLB4&rft_id=info:doi/10.1111/ajps.12118&rft_dat=%3Cjstor_proqu%3E24363595%3C/jstor_proqu%3E%3Curl%3E%3C/url%3E&disable_directlink=true&sfx.directlink=off&sfx.report_link=0&rft_id=info:oai/&rft_pqid=1645576110&rft_id=info:pmid/&rft_jstor_id=24363595&rfr_iscdi=true |