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Bureaucratic Rents and Life Satisfaction

Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

correlates with perceptions of corruption. We find judicial independence to be of major relevance for a tamed bureaucracy. …

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Nobody Likes a Rat: On the Willingness and Consequences of Reporting Lies

Reuben, Ernesto; Stephenson, Matthew - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We investigate the intrinsic motivation of individuals to report, and thereby sanction, fellow group members who lie for personal gain. We further explore the changes in lying and reporting behavior that result from giving individuals a say in who joins their group. We find that enough...

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Driving Forces Behind Informal Sanctions

Falk, Armin; Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This paper investigates the driving forces behind informal sanctions in cooperation games and the extent to which theories of fairness and reciprocity capture these forces. We find that cooperators’ punishment is almost exclusively targeted towards the defectors but the latter also impose a...

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Impact of the 1999 Earthquakes on the Outcome of the 2002 Parliamentary Election in Turkey

Akarca, Ali T.; Tansel, Aysit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

, destruction and suffering, but also exposed rampant government corruption involving construction and zoning code violations. The … incompetence shown by the government in providing relief, the corruption allegations in regards to those efforts, and government … sensitivity shown by the electorate to real and perceived corruption implies that corruption problem will be tractable in Turkey …

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The Impact of Tax Morale and Institutional Quality on the Shadow Economy

Torgler, Benno; Schneider, Friedrich - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper analyses how tax morale and countries’ institutional quality affect the shadow economy, controlling in a multivariate analysis for a variety of potential factors. The literature strongly emphasizes the quantitative importance of these factors to understand the level and changes of...

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The Empire Is Dead, Long Live the Empire! Long-Run Persistence of Trust and Corruption in the Bureaucracy

Becker, Sascha O.; Boeckh, Katrin; Hainz, Christa; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Habsburg affiliation increases current trust and reduces corruption in courts and police. Falsification tests of spuriously …

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Is Leisure a Normal Good? Evidence from the European Parliament

Mocan, Naci; Altindag, Duha T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

per diem compensation increases it. We also show that corruption in home country has a negative effect on attendance for …

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Testing an EU-Candidate's Place on the Maps of Global Economic, Political and Social Values: The Case of Turkey

Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Following the attempt by Alesina and Guiliano (2013) to measure global culture and to project these measurements onto real choropleth geographical world maps, we utilize the data from the World Values Survey (WVS) to arrive at robust measurement scales of global economic, political and social...

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Good Girl, Bad Boy: Corrupt Behavior in Professional Tennis

Jetter, Michael; Walker, Jay K. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

This paper identifies matches on the male and female professional tennis tours in which one player faces a high payoff from being “on the bubble” of direct entry into one of the lucrative Grand Slam tournaments, while their opposition does not. Analyzing over 378,000 matches provides strong...

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Corrupting Learning: Evidence from Missing Federal Education Funds in Brazil

Ferraz, Claudio; Finan, Frederico S.; Moreira, Diana B. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper examines if money matters in education by looking at whether missing resources due to corruption affect … student outcomes. We use data from the auditing of Brazil's local governments to construct objective measures of corruption … of corruption across municipalities and controlling for student, school, and municipal characteristics, we find a …

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