The Speed of Justice

We benefited from generous suggestions from a large number of colleagues, especially Pierre Bachas, Matthieu Chemin, Daniel Chen, Decio Coviello, Jishnu Das, Simeon Djankov, Esther Duflo, Pascaline Dupas, Emma Frankham, Matthew Jackson, Amit Khandelwal, Sylvie Lambert, Arianna Legovini, John Loeser, Karen Macours, Ben Marx, Simon Quinn, Andrei Shleifer, and Christopher Woodruff. We are grateful to the Ministry of Justice of Senegal for their leadership in this work. We are indebted to Presidents Ly Ndiaye and Lamotte of the Court of Dakar and their staff for making all court files and archives available to us. We benefited from the advice of eminent magistrates throughout the study period, especially Mandiogou Ndiaye, Souleymane Teliko, and Klaus Decker. The tax administration data would not be available to us without support from the WWID team at PSE, in particular Bassirou Sarr and Leo Czajka, and the leadership of Bassirou Niasse and Mor Fall at the DGID. The authors acknowledge financial support from the EHESS Paris, KCP, RSB, the Senegal office of the World Bank, and the i2i fund. None of this work would have been possible without support from the DIME team. We thank Chloë Fernandez, Felicité Gomis, Pape Lo, Molly Offer-Westort, and Violaine Pierre for superb field work management. Edina Mwangi, Romaric Sodjahin, Sakina Shibuya, and Cyprien Batut provided excellent research assistance. All usual disclaimers apply, particularly that the views expressed in this paper do not engage the views of the World Bank and its members.

A supplemental appendix is available online at https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_01097.