Individual Attitudes Toward Corruption : Do Social Effects Matter?

Using individual-level data for 35 countries, the authors investigate the microeconomic determinants of attitudes toward corruption. They find women, employed, less wealthy, and older individuals to be more averse to corruption. The authors also pr...

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Main Authors:	Gatti, Roberta, Paternostro, Stefano, Rigolini, Jamele
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:	ANTI-CORRUPTION AVERAGE LEVEL AVERAGE RESPONSES BIDDING BRIBERY BUREAUCRAT BUREAUCRATIC CORRUPTION CORRUPTION COUNTRY AVERAGE COUNTRY DATA CRIME DECENTRALIZATION DEGREE OF CORRUPTION DEVELOPED COUNTRIES DISCRIMINATION ECONOMIC ACTIVITY ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE ECONOMICS EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE EMPIRICAL STUDIES EQUILIBRIUM EXPENDITURE FISCAL FISCAL DECENTRALIZATION GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS GROWTH RATES HUMAN RESOURCES INCOME INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIOR INFLATION MISGOVERNANCE MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS NATIONAL LEVEL NATIONS OPIUM POLICY INSTRUMENTS POLITICAL ECONOMY POVERTY REDUCTION PRODUCTIVE RESOURCES PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION PUBLIC SPENDING REPRESENTATIVITY SAMPLE SIZE SOCIAL CAPITAL SOCIAL INTERACTIONS SOCIAL NETWORKS THEORETICAL MODELS TRANSPARENCY UNEMPLOYMENT URBANIZATION WILLINGNESS TO PAY MICROECONOMIC ANALYSIS ALLOCATION OF RESOURCES SOCIAL ETHICS SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT ATTITUDES CORRUPT PRACTICES
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/08/2510114/individual-attitudes-toward-corruption-social-effects-matter http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18137

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Summary:	Using individual-level data for 35 countries, the authors investigate the microeconomic determinants of attitudes toward corruption. They find women, employed, less wealthy, and older individuals to be more averse to corruption. The authors also provide evidence that social effects play an important role in determining individual attitudes toward corruption, as these are robustly and significantly associated with the average level of tolerance of corruption in the region. This finding lends empirical support to theoretical models where corruption emerges in multiple equilibria and suggests that "big-push" policies might be particularly effective in combating corruption.

Individual Attitudes Toward Corruption : Do Social Effects Matter?

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