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particular be true for petty corruption where small amounts of bribes are involved and the detection rate is rather low. To … conducting a real effort task in every period. Independent of the treatments we already find high rates of corruption in very … observed in the corruption experiment. We explain our findings by a systematic underestimation of the overall probability of …
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We analyze the spread of policies dealing with international trafficking in human beings. Arguing that countries are unlikely to make independent choices, we identify pressure, externalities and learning or emulation as plausible diffusion mechanisms for spatial dependence in anti-trafficking...
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the case of metal crime, where in the face of big increases in value driven by world commodity prices, the incidence of …
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This paper analyzes the relationship between gender and corruption, controlling for country-specific heterogeneity in a … the involvement of women in society and the absence of corruption. However, once country-fixed effects are acknowledged … corruption by 2.5 index points (scale from zero to ten). Surprisingly, the link between the share of women in the labor force and …
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real choropleth geographical world maps, we utilize the data from the World Values Survey (WVS) to arrive at robust …
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In this paper we present and test a theory of how political corruption, found in many transition and emerging market … institutions that do not punish political corruption result in political connectedness of firms that in turn has a negative effect …
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This paper empirically investigates the relationship between corruption and the emigration of those with high, medium … and low levels of educational attainment. The empirical results indicate that as corruption increases the emigration rate … levels of educational attainment, however, increases at initial levels of corruption and then decreases beyond a certain …
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How should we interpret the World Values Survey (WVS) trust question? We conduct an experiment in India, a low trust …
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We examine the effects of emigration and remittances on the corruption experience of migrant household members staying … in the countries of origin. We hypothesize that the effects of emigration on corruption can be both positive (via migrant …
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less likely to adopt a mandatory vaccination policy. One unit of the Corruption Perception Index (scaled from 0 to 10) is … that is lower by 10 pp. In addition, Google Trends data show that public interest in corruption is correlated with interest … in vaccination. The insight from our analysis is that corruption affects not only the supply but also the demand for …
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