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Emily Nix
@emilynix100.bsky.social
Labor economist and professor @USC @USCMarshall. NOLA born and raised, UNC @MoreheadCain BA and Yale PhD educated. Views are my own.

Website: sites.google.com/site/emilyenix/
It suggests that justice systems can do better by victims, and views can change. More work is needed to understand how to convert this into lasting and more broad-based change, but this work provides a glimmer of hope for improvements. [5/5]
October 16, 2025 at 11:51 PM
And that story is in my view a cautiously positive one. Female judges dramatically change their propensity to grant divorces when there is domestic violence after #MeToo. However, this effect is not persistent and not there for male judges. Still, this shows some promise. [4/5]
October 16, 2025 at 11:51 PM
We leverage the timing of the #MeToo movement in China combined with a big data collection exercise to examine how this movement impacted judge's decisions. The paper does a lot of work to carefully estimate effects, but the conditional raw means really tell the story. [3/5]
October 16, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Too often, victims of GBV are failed by criminal justice systems. Restraining orders are denied, divorces are prevented, and the list goes on. This inaction can lead to lives lost. In this paper we try to understand how and whether attitudes of judges can change. [2/5]
October 16, 2025 at 11:51 PM