bribery and show that bribing for any type of public service, not just for health services, has an adverse impact. We also …Corruption is pervasive, but we know little about its effects on individual lives. This paper examines whether living … in a corrupt society has deleterious effects on health. Using individual-level data from 28 post-communist countries, we …

In this paper, we study the evolution of corruption patterns in 27 postcommunist countries during the period 1996 …-2012 using the Control of Corruption Index and the corruption category Markov transition probability matrix. This method allows … us to generate the long-run distribution of corruption among the post-communist countries. Our empirical findings suggest …

bribery, 25 years after the fall of communist rule. Data come from a large representative survey, conducted in post …. Overall, our findings suggest that the proclivity to corruption of the former Communist party members has been transmitted … through family and thus sustained over time, contributing to corruption decades after the demise of the Socialist bloc. …

-rated health. While the first welfare gap in happiness has closed recently, the second transition gap in self-perceived gap only …-rated health. Although the gap in self-perceived health for transition nations in Eastern Europe is present in a basic model, it … "Good" or "Very Good" health compared to other transition and non-transition countries. Controlling for communist party …

electricity suppliers. Outages may have an adverse impact on the household's welfare including the health of household members … investigates whether there is a relationship between outages and the health of children. Specifically, I study the differences in …