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CHEN Shuai 陈帅陳帥 @shuaichenecon.bsky.social · 7h

(12/12) These experiences underscore how critical it is to study violence & the justice system's response. If U'd like to know more details of our #NBER @nber.org WP 34345, please access via the links👇🏼👇🏼 We appreciate any feedback
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Gender-Based Violence and Judge Responses

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CHEN Shuai 陈帅陳帥 @shuaichenecon.bsky.social · 7h

(11/12) Not able to post this thread earlier as I was assaulted & robbed by a gang & have been recovering from concussion. This's 2nd time I'v experienced #violence since moving to UK 2 yrs ago. The previous case was closed w/o charges, as the police didn't pursue further action.

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CHEN Shuai 陈帅陳帥 @shuaichenecon.bsky.social · 7h

(10/12) Heterogeneity analyses indicate that the #MeToo effect was primarily driven by judges who exhibited a lower propensity to grant divorces before the movement, concentrated in cases involving children, and more pronounced in regions with gender-progressive attitudes.

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CHEN Shuai 陈帅陳帥 @shuaichenecon.bsky.social · 7h

(9/12) We also estimate a simpler DiD specification, comparing female judges' grant rates for DV cases for female vs male plaintiffs after vs before #MeToo (and similarly for male judges). This reveals a significant increase in DV divorce petitions granted by female judges only

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CHEN Shuai 陈帅陳帥 @shuaichenecon.bsky.social · 7h

(8/12) Event studies reveal flat pre-trends and a jump in the year the movement occurs. To rule out alternative explanations, such as some other shock affecting female judge rulings around the same time, we estimate the impacts on grant rates for divorce petitions w/o DV.

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CHEN Shuai 陈帅陳帥 @shuaichenecon.bsky.social · 7h

(7/12) 1st estimates of a triple-difference design comparing female to male judges for female vs male plaintiffs after vs before #MeToo confirm conditional raw means & demonstrate female judges' grant rates for DV divorce cases increase relative to male judges following #MeToo.

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CHEN Shuai 陈帅陳帥 @shuaichenecon.bsky.social · 7h

(6/12) Plotting conditional average divorce grant rates separately for male and female judges reveals an uptick in divorce grants for female judges just after #MeToo, but no impact for male judges.

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CHEN Shuai 陈帅陳帥 @shuaichenecon.bsky.social · 7h

(5/12) We use a series of event studies and difference-in-differences (DiD) designs to estimate whether the #MeToo social movement changed judges' views such that they were more likely to grant divorces to female petitioners suffering from domestic violence.

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CHEN Shuai 陈帅陳帥 @shuaichenecon.bsky.social · 7h

(4/12) To carry out our analysis, we collected all publicly available divorce cases seen by judges in China from 2017-2019, before and after #MeToo in China. Using natural language processing, we extract key characteristics of the cases from publicly posted written descriptions.

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CHEN Shuai 陈帅陳帥 @shuaichenecon.bsky.social · 7h

(3/12) The #MeToo movement in China spurred a national awareness of the prevalence and costs of gender-based violence and harassment. This movement was sudden and unexpected, and was particularly salient for women across China.

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CHEN Shuai 陈帅陳帥 @shuaichenecon.bsky.social · 7h

(2/12) In China, only 37% of divorce petitions citing domestic violence (DV) are granted, with evidence suggesting judges often prioritize preserving marriages even in cases of abuse. We investigate whether judicial rulings in DV cases are malleable by #MeToo social movement.

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CHEN Shuai 陈帅陳帥 @shuaichenecon.bsky.social · 7h

🚨New Working Paper🚨

(1/12) W/ amazing Xiqian Cai, Zhengquan Cheng & @emilynix100.bsky.social, we've written a new paper

Gender-Based Violence and Judge Responses

to study whether judicial rulings shift in response to broader social change

@uniofleicester.bsky.social @usc.edu @marshall.usc.edu

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NBER @nber.org · 1d

In China, only 37 percent of domestic violence divorce petitions succeed. After the #MeToo movement, female judges became percentage points more likely to grant them—showing judicial responses are malleable, from Xiqian Cai, @shuaichenecon.bsky.social, Cheng, and Nix www.nber.org/papers/w34345

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Sara Lowes @saralowes.bsky.social · Aug 14

Hiring a full-time pre-doc. Please apply! Thank you!! employment.ucsd.edu/research-ass...

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Federico Trombetta @icotrombetta.bsky.social · Aug 4

🚨Davide Cipullo, Tommaso Colussi, Domenico Rossignoli and I are excited to open the call for the 2nd UniCatt Political Economy workshop! We have 2 great keynotes: Alessandra Casella and David Yanagizawa-Drott. Send us your papers (theory or empirics) and let us meet in Milano on December 18.

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Orkun Saka @orkunsaka.bsky.social · Jul 28

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CHEN Shuai 陈帅陳帥 @shuaichenecon.bsky.social · Jul 27

FYI: These chapters have been published as the @nber.org Working Papers and accessible via www.nber.org/papers?facet...

Working Papers

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CHEN Shuai 陈帅陳帥 @shuaichenecon.bsky.social · Jul 27

Loving the new Handbook of Culture & Economic Behavior (Benjamin Enke, Paola Giuliano, @nathannunn.bsky.social, Leonard Wantchekon)--fantastic work! Grateful to the editors & authors for the insightful, well-structured chapters. As a cultural/political economy fan, I've found it enriching&inspiring!

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CHEN Shuai 陈帅陳帥 @shuaichenecon.bsky.social · Jun 2

Very happy to see that this paper is published online at the Journal of Population Economics.

Link to the Open Access article 👇🏼
doi.org/10.1007/s001...

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CHEN Shuai 陈帅陳帥 @shuaichenecon.bsky.social · Jun 2

Very happy to see that this paper is published online at the Journal of Population Economics.

Link to the Open Access article 👇🏼
doi.org/10.1007/s001...

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CHEN Shuai 陈帅陳帥 @shuaichenecon.bsky.social · Mar 7

Saw the photos online from my Alma Mater—Xiamen University, and would like to share them here ❤️❤️

#WomensDay2025 (tomorrow)

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Abi Adams @abicadams.bsky.social · Feb 12

I put together an overview of recent developments in the literature on gender-based violence for @AEAjournals

There's enough material for 2x 1.5hr lectures. I've covered the material in labor & gender economics classes

I hope they can be helpful!

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ea7v9...

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CHEN Shuai 陈帅陳帥 @shuaichenecon.bsky.social · Jan 22

Glad to receive the physical copies of the latest issue of The Journal of Law and Economics in which my paper appears! What cute little books and great New Year’s gifts!!❤️❤️ Thank you @uchicagopress.bsky.social!!

Excited to read other super interesting papers in the same issue as well!!🤓🤓

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Anna Bindler @annabindler.bsky.social · Jan 17

If you are a junior researcher working on economics of crime, submit your paper to this great workshop! 👇

Aria Golestani @ariagolestani.bsky.social · Jan 16

📣 Submit your crime paper by Feb 14.

🔸 4th Workshop on the Economics of Crime for Junior Scholars
🔸 29-30 May, 2025
🔸 Quattrone Center, UPenn
🔸 Keynote: @amandayagan.bsky.social
🔹 Send your paper to:
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CHEN Shuai 陈帅陳帥 @shuaichenecon.bsky.social · Jan 7

#ASSA2025 is always one of my favorite conferences. Learned ab fascinating #economics studies of colleagues around the world, discussed my own research w/ experts in the fields, caught up w/ old friends & made new friends.

Fulfilling 3 days! Thank you #SF!! I❤️U, goodbye!! 🥰🤗👋🏼