Evidence from high-income countries suggests that judges often exhibit in-group bias, favoring litigants that share an identity with the judge. However, there is little evidence on this phenomenon from the Global South. Collecting the available universe of High Court decisions in Kenya, this paper leverages the random assignment of cases to judges to evaluate the existence of in-group bias along gender and ethnic lines. It finds that, relative to...
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2022/03/07
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WPS9956
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2022/03/07
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Do Judges Favor Their Own Ethnicity and Gender? : Evidence from Kenya
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Development Impact Evaluation
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