How should we interpret the World Values Survey (WVS) trust question? We conduct an experiment in India, a low trust …

this paper, we assess whether and how corruption affects cooperation using a public good game experiment. Overall …Corruption is a widespread phenomenon. Nevertheless, causal evidence on the effects of corruption is still lacking. In …, contributions to the public good are reduced by 30% when participants have the possibility to bribe the punishment authority. Two …

Understanding corruption is at the heart of treating the dysfunctionality of many countries’ public sectors. Yet, most … corruption research suffers from one common problem: There is no “objective” measure of public-sector corruption for a cross …-section of countries. Most studies on the determinants or the effects of corruption rely on indicators of corruption perception …

corruption. This study makes use of outcome-equivalent games to examine participants' willingness to engage in these two types of … corruption. The results show people are more likely to undertake bribery than embezzlement, and this is attributed to the joint … decision-making dynamic of bribery, which shapes the responsibility for the outcome of corruption to be shared between the …

present a model, a laboratory experiment, and a simple crosscountry regression supporting this view. We model an economy with …

/stick ; high-stakes incentives ; rewards ; punishment ; Economics of Religion …

industrialized world. Several scholars argue that corruption is one of the major obstacles to increase tax revenues but focus on … perceived corruption and remain on the macro-level. This study uses mirco-level data from the Afrobarometer survey wave 5 and … thus relates personal corruption experiences to tax morale. The nationally representative survey includes information about …