Gender Gap in Perceived Judicial Qualifications and Ambition

A dataset supporting research on gender disparities in the U.S. federal judicial pipeline. It contains the data and code to reproduce analyses from the article 'Leaks in the Judicial Pipeline: Evidence of a Gender Gap in Perceived Qualifications and Ambition for the Federal Bench' by Dancey, Logan, Kjersten Nelson, and Eve Ringsmuth, published in Political Research Quarterly. The data was published by the author via Harvard Dataverse and was last updated on 2026-05-28.

Use Cases

• Reproduce statistical analyses on gender gaps based on the provided .do files and data.
• Study perceived qualifications for the federal bench based on the survey or experimental data described.
• Analyze ambition levels for judicial office based on the gender gap evidence mentioned.
• Investigate factors contributing to leaks in the judicial pipeline based on the article's findings.

Strengths

• Includes replication materials (.do files) for full reproducibility of the published study.
• Associated with a peer-reviewed article in Political Research Quarterly.
• Last updated date is explicitly provided: 2026-05-28.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Harvard Dataverse

Collection Method

Likely contains survey or experimental data collected for the associated research article.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-28 03:27:01.

Geography

Likely focuses on the United States federal judicial system.