TY - BOOK ID - 103614977 TI - Deep IV in law : appellate decisions and texts impact sentencing in trial courts AU - Huang, Zhe AU - Zhang, Xinyue AU - Wang, Ruofan AU - Chen, Daniel L. PY - 2022 SN - 100929637X 100929640X 1009296396 1009296388 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Appellate courts KW - Sentences (Criminal procedure) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:103614977 AB - Do US Circuit Courts' decisions on criminal appeals influence sentence lengths imposed by US District Courts? This Element explores the use of high-dimensional instrumental variables to estimate this causal relationship. Using judge characteristics as instruments, this Element implements two-stage models on court sentencing data for the years 1991 through 2013. This Element finds that Democratic, Jewish judges tend to favor criminal defendants, while Catholic judges tend to rule against them. This Element also finds from experiments that prosecutors backlash to Circuit Court rulings while District Court judges comply. Methodologically, this Element demonstrates the applicability of deep instrumental variables to legal data. ER -