Hunt, Jennifer; Laszlo, Sonia - In: World Development 40 (2012) 2, pp. 355-372
We use data on households’ bribery of public officials in Peru and Uganda to analyze the distribution by income of the burden of bribery, the mechanisms leading to it, and the payoffs to bribery. We show the burden of bribery is not borne disproportionately by the poor. Among bribers, the poor...