This paper utilizes a micro-level data set from 49 countries to address three issues: What determines corruption at the … individual level? What determines the perception of the extent of corruption in the country? Does corruption have a direct impact … corruption which portrays the extent of corruption as revealed byindividuals who live in those countries. The results show that …

This paper examines changes in individual real incomes in South Africa between 1995 and 2000. We document substantial …

about the quality and sustainability of this service-sector growth and its implications for economic development. We show …

The empirical literature on economic growth and development has moved from the study of proximate determinants to the … account the ancestral composition of current populations. The evidence suggests that economic development is affected by … economic development, biologically (via genetic or epigenetic transmission) and culturally (via behavioral or symbolic …

was checkered with political scandal and widespread corruption that would not seem unusual compared with the most corrupt … developing nation today. We construct a "corruption and fraud index" using word counts from a large number of newspapers for 1815 … corruption from 1870 to 1920, particularly from the late-1870s to the mid-1880s and again in the 1910s. At its peak in the 1870s …

charged language in the half century after 1870. From 1870 to 1920, when corruption appears to have declined significantly … seems a reasonable hypothesis that the rise of the informative press was one of the reasons why the corruption of the Gilded …

corruption. Students who demonstrate lower levels of prosocial preferences in the laboratory games are also more likely to prefer … corruption do not systematically predict job preferences. We find that a screening process that chooses the highest ability … applicants would not alter the average propensity for corruption among the applicant pool. Our findings imply that differential …