Data and Code for: Correction to “Temperature and Decisions: Evidence from 207,000 Court Cases” (by Heyes and Saberian AEJ: Applied Economics 11(2), 238-65, April 2019) and Reply to Comment by Spamann

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Project Citation:

Saberian, Soodeh. Data and Code for: Correction to “Temperature and Decisions: Evidence from 207,000 Court Cases” (by Heyes and Saberian AEJ: Applied Economics 11(2), 238-65, April 2019) and Reply to Comment by Spamann. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2022. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2022-09-21. https://doi.org/10.3886/E127263V1

Project Description

Summary: This paper evidenced sensitivity of US immigration judge decisions to temperature in the city of arbitration on date of adjudication. This note serves to correct errors noted since publication. Main results from both the main linear specifications are qualitatively unchanged, with estimated treatment effects similar in size to the original and retaining statistical significance at conventional levels. Some secondary results lose significance with erosion of sample size. We also acknowledge the additional finding by Spamann (2020) with respect to external validity.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: Comment; Reply ; immigration judges; Climate change; Temperature

JEL Classification:
      K32 Energy, Environmental, Health, and Safety Law
      K42 Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
      Q54 Climate; Natural Disasters and Their Management; Global Warming

Geographic Coverage: All immigration courthouses in the US

Time Period(s): 1/3/2000 – 8/31/2004

Collection Date(s): 6/1/2016 – 1/30/2017

Universe: Immigration judges in the United States.

Data Type(s): administrative records data

Methodology

Unit(s) of Observation: immigration case

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