FWO travel grant for a short stay at the Washington and Lee University at Lexington for the period of 29/10 untill 12/11/2018 (R-9286)

This is a joint project with professor Grajzl on sentencing in sexual assault cases adjudicated in Belgian courts. We examine the extent of gender in-group bias (preferential treatment of those with the same gender). Although racial in-group bias in the context of criminal courts has been researched, empirical research on gender in-group bias remains scarce and non-existent in the European context. Our identification strategy relies on a sample of defendants tried in the same court district for the same crime and subsequent

Keywords:economic analysis judge decisions., in-group bias, judge behavior

Disciplines:Law