Chaudhuri, Ananish; Iversen, Vegard; Jensenius, Francesca R. - 2020
Increasing the share of women in politics is regularly promoted as a means of reducing corruption. In this paper, we … look for evidence of a gender gap in dishonesty among elected representatives, as well as how this changes with time in … office. Based on a sample of 356 inexperienced and experienced local politicians in West Bengal, India, we combine survey …