corruption. Students who demonstrate lower levels of prosocial preferences in the laboratory games are also more likely to prefer … corruption do not systematically predict job preferences. We find that a screening process that chooses the highest ability … applicants would not alter the average propensity for corruption among the applicant pool. Our findings imply that differential …

This paper develops and tests two efficiency wage models of corruption in the civil service. Under fair wage models …, civil service wages are an important determinant of corruption. Under shirking models, the level of wages is of secondary … importance, as potential bribes dwarf wage income. The empirical evidence points to a negative relationship between corruption …

corruption. Numerous studies suggest a relationship between the design of civil service systems and corruption, but few studies … actually test this theoretical link. We hypothesize that corruption levels depend on the presence or absence of particular … bargaining rights; we also assess the impact of wages on corruption levels. We test these hypotheses using World Bank data from a …

We investigate an agent-based model for the emergence of corruption in public contracts. Thereare two types of agents … corruption in the system by the fractions of corrupt and honest agents for asymptotictimes. We study the effects of the group … representing the institutional controlof corruption. We characterize the fractions of honest and corrupt agents as functions of …

Adequate wages are an important tool to shield public officials from special interests and corruption. But what is the … significantly more likely to prevent corruption in public procurement, a key area of illicit interactions between the state and … limit corruption, but also foster the use of violence as an alternative tool to influence policymaking …

the recent anti-corruption campaign. An analysis of a separate cross-city dataset corroborates the key conclusion …