@article{Assignments:4029,
      recid = {4029},
      author = {del Villar Ortiz Mena, Francisco de Asis},
      title = {Detection of Irregular Assignments of Cases to Judges},
      publisher = {University of Chicago},
      school = {Ph.D.},
      address = {2022-06},
      pages = {80},
      abstract = {This thesis develops tools to detect irregular assignments  of cases to judges and applies them to Ecuador's judicial  system.It derives the sharp bounds on the overall,  court-specific, and judge-specific probabilities that a  case's assignment is inconsistent with existing  regulations.
The bounds rely on administrative case  assignment data and one, or both, of the following  assumptions: (i) that certain observed case characteristics  do not influence which judge a case should be assigned to,  and (ii) that the probability distribution over the judges  that each case should be assigned to is known (e.g.  uniform, random assignment).
I construct a database of all  publicly-available case assignments in Ecuador's district  courts, with over two million assignments from 2016 to 2020  and I find 6.6% of judges to be involved in irregular  assignments and 2.6% of assignments, or 58 thousand  assignments, to be irregular overall.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/4029},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.4029},
}