In this article, we examine whether and to what extent the gender composition of a panel of three judges may have an impact on its decision in a civil law system characterized by a very large representation of females among judges. From a database of 2000 decisions from French Courts of Appeal, we show that the gender composition of panels of judges have a significant effect on the amounts of child support. More specifically, our results show that panels composed of three female judges set higher child support amounts than mixed panels, regardless of the gender of the creditor. In addition, the diminishing effect of the panel’s gender mix is particularly pronounced when the creditor is a man and the mixed panel is composed of two women and one man.

在本文中，我们研究了由三名法官组成的小组的性别组成是否会在何种程度上影响其在以法官中女性比例很高为特征的民法体系中的决定。从法国上诉法院的2000项判决数据库中，我们显示出法官小组的性别组成对子女抚养费的数额有重大影响。更具体地说，我们的结果表明，由三名女法官组成的专家小组设定的子女抚养费要高于混合专家小组，而与债权人的性别无关。此外，如果债权人是男人，而混合小组由两名妇女和一名男子组成，则小组的性别混合效应会特别明显。