Do Masculine Names Help Female Lawyers Become Judges? Evidence from South Carolina
Do Masculine Names Help Female Lawyers Become Judges? Evidence from South Carolina
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DOI：
10.1093/aler/ahp008
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发表时间：
2009-03-01
影响因子：
1.5
通讯作者：
McLaughlin, Patrick A.
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作者：
Coffey, Bentley;Walker, John E.;McLaughlin, Patrick A.
本文提供了波西亚假设的第一个实证检验：具有男性绰号的女性在法律的职业生涯中更成功。利用南卡罗来纳州的微观数据，我们寻找一个人的进步，以法官和他/她的名字的阳刚之气之间的相关性，我们构建的联合经验分布的名字和性别在国家的整个人口的登记选民。我们发现了有力的证据，表明名义上男性化的女性比其他女性更受青睐。因此，我们的研究结果支持Portia假说。
This paper provides the first empirical test of the Portia Hypothesis: Females with masculine monikers are more successful in legal careers. Utilizing South Carolina microdata, we look for correlation between an individual's advancement to a judgeship and his/her name's masculinity, which we construct from the joint empirical distribution of names and gender in the state's entire population of registered voters. We find robust evidence that nominally masculine females are favored over other females. Hence, our results support the Portia Hypothesis.