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Climate change has stimulated growing interest in the influence of temperature on cognition, mood and decision making …. This paper is the first investigation of the impact of temperature on the outcomes of criminal court cases. It is motivated … by Heyes and Saberian (2019, AEJ: Applied Economics), who found strong effects of temperature on judges' decisions in …
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a trial judge's sex and race have very large effects on his or her decision making. These results have important …
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, and legal decision-making. Social cognition research indicates that implicit racial biases are automatic, pervasive, and … are often facilitated by stereotypes. Decision-making theory teaches that memory errors can not only affect the results of … individual decision-making processes, but also that group deliberations are unlikely to resolve these errors. The author argues …
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This paper exploits the diversity of panels at the court of appeals in the state of São Paulo to address the role of career backgrounds and ideology in shaping the response of judicial decisions to a major shift in jurisprudence on drug offenses. The Brazilian constitution reserves 80% of the...
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The post-grant review proceedings set up at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent and Trial Appeal Board by the America Invents Act of 2011 have transformed the relationship between Article III patent litigation and the administrative state. Not surprisingly, such dramatic change has...
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, affect judicial decision-making? Many of these questions have been put to the experimental test. The paper provides a …
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time parties will not be provided a reasoned decision explaining the success or failure of the challenge. Recently, however … of challenge decisions shines a light on the decision-making process, so that both its strengths and its weaknesses …
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In this paper, we examine the relationship between temperature and human conception rates and project the impacts of … climate change by the mid-twenty-first century. Using complete administrative data on 6.8 million pregnancies between 1980 and … exposure, but a partial rebound is observed after that. Absent adaptation, climate change is projected to increase seasonal …
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We examine the impact of temperature shocks and climate change on household financial behaviour in Viet Nam. To do so …, we first estimate the effect of temperature on household borrowing and savings using Vietnamese longitudinal data that … matches satellite reanalysis temperature data with household information over the period 2008 to 2016. We find that an …
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