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

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

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 …

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 …

We address the impact of corruption in a developing economy in the context of an empirically relevant hold-up problem …

Cross-national empirical studies of corruption commonly find that nations in which women play a greater role in … economic and public life suffer less corruption. This finding has been controversial in that measures of women's participation … an instrumental variable towards estimating the true causal effect of gender upon corruption. The ensuing estimates …

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 …

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 …