Bonica, Adam; Chilton, Adam; Goldin, Jacob; Rozema, Kyle; … - 2017
We present a new measure of judicial ideology based on judicial hiring behavior. Specifically, we utilize the ideology … of the law clerks hired by federal judges to estimate the ideology of the judges themselves. These Clerk-Based Ideology … (CBI) scores complement existing measures of judicial ideology in several ways. First, CBI scores can be estimated for …