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2016
- ISIDORE Id: 10670/1.87c29d...
- hal: hal-02105210
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Judicial decision-making Gender Family law K - Law and Economics/K.K3 - Other Substantive Areas of Law/K.K3.K36 - Family and Personal Law K - Law and Economics/K.K4 - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior/K.K4.K41 - Litigation ProcessSujets proches
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Bruno Jeandidier et al., « Does gender matter in the civil law judiciary ? Evidence from French child support court decisions », HAL SHS (Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société), ID : 10670/1.87c29d...
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This article assesses whether and to what extent gender matters in one particular area of the civil law system, family law. Using a dataset of 2,000 child support decisions from French courts of appeal, we show that in a civil law system like that in France, the gender of the judge does seem to matter. We find that this influence is likely to manifest itself in two ways. First, our results show that female and male judges do not make the same decisions : comparatively to the latter, the former are more generous, fixing higher amounts of child support (the difference represents between 8% and 17% of the average amount of child support), and make more pro-mother decisions, regardless of whether the mothers are debtors or creditors. The magnitude of these differences is greater when the panel is composed of three female judges, comparatively to mixed or all-male panels.
