Holden, Richard; Keane, Michael P.; Lilley, Matthew - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 12 (2021) 3, pp. 981-1019
Using data on essentially every U.S. Supreme Court decision since 1946, we estimate a model of peer effects on the Court. We estimate the impact of justice ideology and justice votes on the votes of their peers. To identify the peer effects, we use two instruments that generate plausibly...