In this paper the Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) is constructed with Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Partial Least Squares (PLS). Using the SIGI, we test the effects of social institutions related to gender inequality on several development outcomes, such as female education,...

Corruption is notoriously hard to measure directly, and cross-country corruption indices thus often rely on indirect information such as country experts' or international businessmen's perceptions. Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index (CPI) is one such indicator that is often...