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ArticleInternational review of law and economics2021

How has the Covid19 pandemic impacted the courts of law? Evidence from Brazil.

Caio Castelliano, Peter Grajzl, Eduardo Watanabe

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Article in International review of law and economics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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3 authors.

Caio CastellianoUniversity of Brasilia, Brazil.
Peter GrajzlWashington and Lee University, USA.
Eduardo WatanabeUniversity of Brasilia, Brazil.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We provide empirical insight into the consequences of the Covid19 pandemic for the administration of justice. Drawing on a comprehensive monthly panel of Brazilian labor courts and using a difference-in-difference approach, we show that the pandemic has had a large and persistent deleterious effect on adjudicatory efficacy, leading to a massive decrease in the clearance rate and an increase in court backlogs. The pandemic has affected how courts dispose adjudication cases, expectedly causing a plummeting in the share of disputes resolved via trial hearings and, less predictably, exerting a temporally non-linear effect on the share of in-court settlements. Notably, we find no evidence of an effect of the pandemic on efficacy in enforcement. Although the pandemic led to an increase in the share of new filings requiring enforcement, any effect on the relative use of enforcement to execute court-ordered payments has been intermittent and temporary. The intensity of the pandemic has been an important moderating factor.

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AdjudicationBrazilCourtsCovid19EnforcementLabor justice

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PMID36536656
PMCPMC9754149

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