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We present an infinite-horizon model of moral standards where self-esteem and unconscious drives play key roles. In the model, an individual receives random temptations (such as bribe offers) and must decide which to resist. Individual actions depend both on conscious intent and a type...
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Evidence on the relationship between political contributions and legislators' voting behavior is marred by concerns about endogeneity in the estimation process. Using a legislator's offspring sex mix as an exogenous variable, we employ a two-stage least squares estimation procedure to predict...
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to be lower. We identify such countries using measures of corruption and transparency in arms trade. We also suggest a …
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In this paper, I examine the role of household income in determining who bribes and how much they bribe in health care in Peru and Uganda. I find that rich patients are more likely than other patients to bribe in public health care: doubling household consumption increases the bribery...
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are desperate, vulnerable, or demanding services particularly prone to corruption. The effect is strongest for bribery of …
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banking was the progeny of the corruption associated with bank chartering and reflected social, political and economic … backlashes against corruption dating to the late-1810s. Three strands of political thought -- Antimasonic egalitarianism …
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This paper studies the effect of corruption on foreign direct investment. The sample covers bilateral investment from … the tax rate on multinational firms or the corruption level in a host country reduces inward foreign direct investment … (FDI). An increase in the corruption level from that of Singapore to that of Mexico is equivalent to raising the tax rate …
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? The core design challenge is managing the tradeoff between Type-II errors of inclusion (including corruption) against Type … results highlight that attempts to reduce corruption in welfare programs by making ID requirements more stringent can also …
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administrative costs and local corruption. Administrative reforms by the center can have perverse effects. Policy implications are …
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subsidy awards and depressed the influence of their corruption-related expenditures. We also examine the impact of these … changes: subsidies became significantly positively associated with future innovation after the anti-corruption campaign and …
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