trust in local leaders, while corruption not only detracts from trust in local and regional leaders, it increases the public …

We estimate the size of the likely unofficial income of a household with a government official by the difference …, and the proportion also increases with rank. Third, government officials are not underpaid, and their unofficial incomes … are not a compensation for low government salaries. Additionally, evidence suggests unofficial incomes have declined since …

-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 …

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 …, government officials may demand more compensation from informal or even illegal channels than what is officially sanctioned …

In this study we explore in detail the causes of corruption in China using two different sets of data at the regional … level (provinces and cities). We observe that regions with more anti-corruption efforts, histories of British rule, higher … openness, more access to media and relatively higher wages of government employees are markedly less corrupt; while social …