likely to be successful, we construct proxies for a number of demographic variables in the US and for corruption across … also replicate results from two separate published papers establishing the correlates of corruption at both the state and … country level. Finally, we construct the first index of corruption in US cities and study its correlates. -- Internet …

In this study we analyze the effects of corruption on income inequality and poverty. Our analysis advances the existing … literature in four ways. First, instead of using corruption indices assembled by various investment risk services, we use an … objective measure of corruption: the number of public officials convicted in a state for crimes related to corruption. Second …