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are poorly enforced. We investigate whether sellers differ in innate honesty (incur private cost to provide good quality …
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Increasing the share of women in politics is regularly promoted as a means of reducing corruption. In this paper, we … data on attitudes towards corruption with data from incentivized experiments. While we find little evidence of a gender gap … corruption can be seen among experienced politicians, particularly women. However, this seeming hardening in attitudes among …
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resultant prosperity. We also emphasize that enforcing regulations is a complex task given corruption, informal markets, and the …
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March and July 2021, we elicit willingness to act against fraud and corruption in the provision of health services by … the COVID-19 peak in their state of residence, we find evidence of a large and significant increase in anti-corruption … activism post peak. Our data suggest that this surge in activism can be attributed to heightened perceptions of corruption in …
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presence of a discriminating inefficient business ecosystem, women entrepreneurs use non-market strategies such as corruption … to alter decisions in their favour. Thus, an effort to reduce corruption at an immature stage, when these societal …
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Who gets elected to political office? The negative selection hypothesis posits that the inherently dishonest run for office, expecting to earn political rent. Alternatively, the positive selection hypothesis suggests that individuals join politics to make a difference. Developing country...
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programs. This is an important issue affecting both the supply of local public goods and the incidence of corruption. To the …
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following issues: (a) how do irregularities and instances of corruption persist in spite of safeguards and thereby find the … deficiencies of the current procurement processes and control mechanisms, (b) recommending appropriate corruption prevention …
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Corruption has become an increasingly salient issue in India today, spawning both enormous interest from the media as … policy options under discussion, and the actual evidence base drawn from empirical research on corruption. We attempt to … bridge this gap, directly addressing the particular challenges that corruption in India poses. Academic evidence supports the …
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Corruption is known to inhibit economic growth. The dearth of data on actual bribe payments, however, has been the … corruption. This paper tests whether increased access to information on corruption affects prices and price dispersion of bribes …
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