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dc.contributor.author | VAES, Diego | - |
dc.contributor.author | BIELEN, Samantha | - |
dc.contributor.author | Grajzl, Peter | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-06-01T10:50:19Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2023-06-01T10:50:19Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2023 | - |
dc.date.submitted | 2023-05-26T12:04:01Z | - |
dc.identifier.citation | 10th International Meeting in Law & Economics, University Paris Nanterre, 25-26/05/2023 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/40246 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Impartiality is a central goal of the judiciary. However, a body of literature documented that judges often exhibit bias in decision-making. In the context of asylum adjudication, evidence of disparities in decision-making is also apparent. While the existing "refugee roulette" literature mainly focuses on the relationship between the judge's or the refugee's gender and the asylum decision, the impact of same-gender judge-refugee pairings on asylum appeal outcomes only received limited attention. This paper studies the existence of gender-based ingroup bias in Belgian asylum appeals by examining a novel dataset of 23,248 verdicts of the Belgian Council for Alien Law Litigation. Using a difference-indifference approach, we show that a judge-refugee gender match results in significantly higher chances for the refugee of receiving a favorable decision (about 35% from the mean value of a favorable decision for a refugee). In addition, we also provide evidence that ingroup bias is more pronounced in verdicts in which asylum authorities more strongly contest asylum narrative credibility, which we quantify by estimating a structural topic model, a state-of-the-art machine learning method. This paper is one of the first to examine gender-based ingroup bias in asylum appeals. This is a high-stakes context because of the direct and far-reaching consequences of the decision for the asylum seeker. The findings of positive gender-based ingroup bias are of direct interest to policymakers in creating awareness about the consequences of refugee-judge gender pairings within asylum courts. | - |
dc.language.iso | en | - |
dc.subject.other | Judicial bias | - |
dc.subject.other | Gender | - |
dc.subject.other | Ingroup bias | - |
dc.subject.other | Asylum appeals | - |
dc.title | Gender-Based Ingroup Bias in the Application of Belgian Asylum Law | - |
dc.type | Conference Material | - |
local.bibliographicCitation.conferencedate | 25-26/05/2023 | - |
local.bibliographicCitation.conferencename | 10th International Meeting in Law & Economics | - |
local.bibliographicCitation.conferenceplace | University Paris Nanterre | - |
local.bibliographicCitation.jcat | C2 | - |
local.type.specified | Conference Material - Abstract | - |
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local.uhasselt.international | no | - |
item.fulltext | With Fulltext | - |
item.fullcitation | VAES, Diego; BIELEN, Samantha & Grajzl, Peter (2023) Gender-Based Ingroup Bias in the Application of Belgian Asylum Law. In: 10th International Meeting in Law & Economics, University Paris Nanterre, 25-26/05/2023. | - |
item.contributor | VAES, Diego | - |
item.contributor | BIELEN, Samantha | - |
item.contributor | Grajzl, Peter | - |
item.accessRights | Open Access | - |
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