Subject Pool Effects in a Corruption Experiment: A Comparison of Indonesian Public Servants and Indonesian Students

We report results from a corruption experiment with Indonesian public servants and Indonesian students. Our results suggest that the Indonesian public servant subjects have a significantly lower tolerance of corruption than the Indonesian students. We find no evidence that this is due to a selection...

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Main Authors: Alatas, Vivi, Cameron, Lisa, Chaudhuri, Ananish, Erkal, Nisvan, Gangadharan, Lata
Format: Journal Article
Language:EN
Published: 2012
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spelling okr-10986-55002021-04-23T14:02:22Z Subject Pool Effects in a Corruption Experiment: A Comparison of Indonesian Public Servants and Indonesian Students Alatas, Vivi Cameron, Lisa Chaudhuri, Ananish Erkal, Nisvan Gangadharan, Lata Bureaucracy Administrative Processes in Public Organizations Corruption D730 Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law K420 Formal and Informal Sectors Shadow Economy Institutional Arrangements O170 We report results from a corruption experiment with Indonesian public servants and Indonesian students. Our results suggest that the Indonesian public servant subjects have a significantly lower tolerance of corruption than the Indonesian students. We find no evidence that this is due to a selection effect. The reasons given by the subjects for their behaviour suggest that the differences in behavior across the subject pools are driven by their different real life experiences. For example, when abstaining from corruption, public servants more often cite the need to reduce the social costs of corruption as a reason for their actions, and when engaging in corruption, they cite low government salaries or a belief that corruption is a necessary evil in the current environment. In contrast, students give more simplistic moral reasons. We conclude by emphasizing that results obtained from different subject pools can complement each other in illuminating different aspects of the same problem. 2012-03-30T07:33:08Z 2012-03-30T07:33:08Z 2009 Journal Article Experimental Economics 13864157 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5500 EN http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Journal Article Indonesia
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topic Bureaucracy
Administrative Processes in Public Organizations
Corruption D730
Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law K420
Formal and Informal Sectors
Shadow Economy
Institutional Arrangements O170
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Administrative Processes in Public Organizations
Corruption D730
Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law K420
Formal and Informal Sectors
Shadow Economy
Institutional Arrangements O170
Alatas, Vivi
Cameron, Lisa
Chaudhuri, Ananish
Erkal, Nisvan
Gangadharan, Lata
Subject Pool Effects in a Corruption Experiment: A Comparison of Indonesian Public Servants and Indonesian Students
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description We report results from a corruption experiment with Indonesian public servants and Indonesian students. Our results suggest that the Indonesian public servant subjects have a significantly lower tolerance of corruption than the Indonesian students. We find no evidence that this is due to a selection effect. The reasons given by the subjects for their behaviour suggest that the differences in behavior across the subject pools are driven by their different real life experiences. For example, when abstaining from corruption, public servants more often cite the need to reduce the social costs of corruption as a reason for their actions, and when engaging in corruption, they cite low government salaries or a belief that corruption is a necessary evil in the current environment. In contrast, students give more simplistic moral reasons. We conclude by emphasizing that results obtained from different subject pools can complement each other in illuminating different aspects of the same problem.
format Journal Article
author Alatas, Vivi
Cameron, Lisa
Chaudhuri, Ananish
Erkal, Nisvan
Gangadharan, Lata
author_facet Alatas, Vivi
Cameron, Lisa
Chaudhuri, Ananish
Erkal, Nisvan
Gangadharan, Lata
author_sort Alatas, Vivi
title Subject Pool Effects in a Corruption Experiment: A Comparison of Indonesian Public Servants and Indonesian Students
title_short Subject Pool Effects in a Corruption Experiment: A Comparison of Indonesian Public Servants and Indonesian Students
title_full Subject Pool Effects in a Corruption Experiment: A Comparison of Indonesian Public Servants and Indonesian Students
title_fullStr Subject Pool Effects in a Corruption Experiment: A Comparison of Indonesian Public Servants and Indonesian Students
title_full_unstemmed Subject Pool Effects in a Corruption Experiment: A Comparison of Indonesian Public Servants and Indonesian Students
title_sort subject pool effects in a corruption experiment: a comparison of indonesian public servants and indonesian students
publishDate 2012
url http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5500
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