Calendrier du 31 mai 2022
Paris Trade Seminar
Du 31/05/2022 de 14:30 à 16:00
PSE, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, salle R1-09
GANAPATI Sharat (Georgetown)
Urban Welfare: Tourism in Barcelona
écrit avec T. Allen, S. Fuchs, A. Graziano, R. Madera, and J. Montoriol-Garriga
Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 31/05/2022 de 12:30 à 13:30
R2.01 (PSE)
FRéMEAUX Nicolas (LEMMA, Université Paris Panthéon-Assas)
A justice rendered by women for women? What judicial intervention does to gender wealth gap
écrit avec Sibylle Gollac
In order to understand the role of law and justice in the gender wealth gap in contemporary France, we study the influence of the judges' gender on decisions related to marital separations. We use a unique dataset of 3,000 judicial cases with detailed information about both the judges and the cases. We do not find any systematic effect of the judges' gender. The latter does not affect the decisions related to child physical custody and child support. However, female judges tend to grant a lower share of spousal compensatory benefits but when a benefit is granted, its value is larger than those granted by male judges. Moreover, we do not detect that decisions rendered by male or female judges are systematically closer to one of the litigants' claim. The limited effect of judicial intervention on gender inequality between separated men and women is not due to the discretion of judges but rather due to the litigants' claims and the importance that female as male judges give to these claims in their decision-making process. Information used and organizational constraints faced by judges as well as peer effects can explain these results, which question the hypothesis of a feminist justice or a justice “rendered by women for women”.