@article{Sophistication:2974,
      recid = {2974},
      author = {Cao, Siying},
      title = {Quantifying Economic Reasoning in Court: Judge Economics  Sophistication and Pro-business Orientation},
      publisher = {University of Chicago},
      school = {Ph.D.},
      address = {2021-06},
      pages = {109},
      abstract = {By applying computational linguistics tools to the  analysis of US federal district courts’ decisions from 1932  to 2016, I quantify the rise of economic reasoning in court  cases that range from securities regulation to antitrust  law. I then relate judges’ level of economic reasoning to  their training.  I find that significant judge  heterogeneity in economics sophistication can be explained  by attendance at law schools that have a large presence of  the law and economics faculty. Finally, for all regulatory  cases from 1970 to 2016, I hand code whether the judge  ruled in favor of the business or the government. I find  that judge economics sophistication is positively  correlated with a higher frequency of pro-business  decisions even after controlling for political ideology and  a rich set of other judge covariates.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/2974},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.2974},
}