Material Type  

 학위논문

 

0017160520

Date and Time of Latest Transaction  

20250211151033

ISBN  

9798383421017

DDC  

305

Author  

Laneuville Teixeira Garcia, Helena.

Title/Author  

Essays in Gender Economics.

Publish Info  

[S.l.] : Yale University., 2024

Publish Info  

Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024

Material Info  

115 p.

General Note  

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-02, Section: A.

General Note  

Advisor: Humphries, John Eric.

학위논문주기  

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2024.

Abstracts/Etc  

요약In the first chapter, I identify a gender promotion gap among judges in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and characterize its labor-demand and labor-supply-related drivers. To do so, I construct a novel dataset that measures characteristics, skills, and observable performance on the job and the process of career advancement. Women take significantly longer to be promoted within the Trial Court and, consequently, acquire less experience with larger court districts. At the end of their career, they are four times less likely than men to reach the Appeals Court. On the labor supply side, women are 14% less likely to seek career advancement within the Trial Court, which accounts for 40% of the gender promotion gap at this stage. On the labor demand side, another 41% of this gap can be explained by a differential probability of receiving a promotion when applying. Among applicants for merit-based promotions, female candidates are 21% less likely to be successful than their male counterparts. This effect is not explained by an observable difference in skills at the time of hiring or productivity on the job. In the second chapter, Vitor Possebom and I investigate the impact of judges' gender on the outcome of domestic violence cases. We use data from criminal cases in Sao Paulo, Brazil, between 2011 and 2019, which are randomly allocated to judges within a court district. We compare conviction rates by judge's gender and find that a domestic violence case assigned to a female judge is 31% (10 p.p) more likely to result in conviction than a case assigned to a male judge with similar career characteristics. To show that this decision gap rises due to different gender perspectives about domestic violence instead of rising due to female judges being tougher than male judges, we compare it against gender conviction rate gaps in similar types of crimes. We find that the gender conviction rate gap for domestic violence cases is significantly larger than the same gap for other misdemeanor cases (3 p.p. larger) and for other physical assault cases (8 p.p. larger). Lastly, we identify two channels that drive this gender conviction rate gap for domestic violence cases: gender identity and gender-based differences in evidence interpretation.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Gender studies.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Law.

Index Term-Uncontrolled  

Domestic violence

Index Term-Uncontrolled  

Gender bias

Index Term-Uncontrolled  

Gender gap decomposition

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Gender promotion gap

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Judicial decisions

Added Entry-Corporate Name  

Yale University Economics

Host Item Entry  

Dissertations Abstracts International. 86-02A.

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