Borcan, Oana; Lindahl, Mikael; Mitrut, Andreea - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2012
This paper aims to understand how corruption responds to financial incentives and, in particular, it is an attempt to … identify the causal impact of a wage loss on the prevalence of corruption in the education sector. Specifically, we exploit the …—the Baccalaureate. To exploit the effect of an income shock on corruption, we use a difference-in-difference strategy and compare the …