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The Speed of Justice Dakar Regional Court, Senegal

Impact Evaluation Concept Note. Florence Kondylis Mamadou Lo Mandiogou Ndiaye Mattea Stein Souleymane Teliko. The Speed of Justice Dakar Regional Court, Senegal. Background. Assumption: The speed of justice affects demand for legal resolution of business disputes the business climate

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The Speed of Justice Dakar Regional Court, Senegal

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  1. Impact Evaluation Concept Note Florence Kondylis Mamadou Lo MandiogouNdiaye Mattea Stein SouleymaneTeliko The Speed of JusticeDakar Regional Court, Senegal

  2. Background • Assumption: The speed of justice affects • demand for legal resolution of business disputes • the business climate • Problem: • No evidence on how to increase speed of justice • No direct evidence on what this impact is at the firm level • The Reform Unit of the MoJ in Senegal is working with DIME to get answers

  3. Intervention Summary • Treatment Delay Reminders • Increase salience of information on treatment delays for the various actors <<>> identified bottlenecks • President of chambers • Pre-trial Judges • Clerks (greffiers) • Increase treatment speed • Measure impact of variation in speed at the firm level • Does it work at scale (when all cases are subject to reminder pop-ups?) • Test on larger set of cases (Commercial and Civil) using regression discontinuity design (RDD)

  4. Evaluation Questions • Can a simple personnel economics intervention increase the speed of justice? • Why? [Perception of increased scrutiny vs. planning tool, etc] • Run qualitative judge interviews before/after roll out to try to get at the channels of impact • [Testing impact of paper-based version of the same intervention would be the “ideal” test. Not feasible: too few judges.] • Can a decrease in treatment delays have an impact at the firm level? • Survival of the firm • Decision to invest, employ, expand • Perception of justice system and demand for legal resolution of business disputes (through series of hypothetical situations) • What is the potential for this type of interventions to improve the business climate?

  5. Evaluation Design • Unit of intervention: Court case (Total: 1,800) • Random assignment: • 900 treated: appear in pop-up windows • 900 control: do not appear in any pop-up windows • Court actors received pop-ups: • All president of chambers (manage judges) • All pre-trial judges • All clerks • Only cases they are in charge of appear in their pop-ups

  6. Pop-Up Chambre President 1/2

  7. Pop-Up Chambre President 2/2

  8. Pop-UpClerk 1/2

  9. Pop-UpClerk 2/2

  10. Pop-UpPre-trial Judge 1/2

  11. Pop-UpPre-trial Judge 2/2

  12. Sampling and Data • Court-level data: • Administrative data collected directly through the court software (all agents enter the various treatment steps into an interface) • Date of entry and dates of various steps entered >> compute duration and speed • Identify firms for tracking in the firm-level survey • Firm-level data: • 2 planned rounds of survey collection • One at the outset • One 1 year later • Issue of censoring: not all cases will be completed over the period of the trial >> use duration models

  13. Thank you!

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