the recent anti-corruption campaign. An analysis of a separate cross-city dataset corroborates the key conclusion …

The temporal persistence and geographical prevalence of corruption in the world have provoked a vast amount of research … contributing factor to corruption. The assumption is that when salaries are low but expectations for service remains high …; hence, corruption arises. Accordingly, increased pay level is assumed to be effective in deterring corruption. Using China …

-in-differences identification strategy, we study whether and how the recent anti-corruption campaign in China shapes the health of public sector … pronounced among the PSEs who are more exposed to corruption ex ante. Further analyses demonstrate that the mechanisms underlying … an unintended health consequence of China’s anti-corruption campaign …