Corrupt activities are seldom observed directly. Naturally, everyone involved in such
behavior has good reasons to remain silent. Much progress has been made in cross-country …

John Gerring's exceptional textbook has been thoroughly revised in this second edition. It
offers a one-volume introduction to social science methodology relevant to the disciplines of …

The annual Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), published by Transparency International
(TI), has had a pivotal role in focusing attention on corruption. Despite recent critiques of the …

A substantial body of recent research looks at differences in the behavior of men and women
in diverse economic transactions. We contribute to this literature by investigating gender …

Most of the empirical studies that analyze the impact of corruption on investment have three
common features: they employ country‐level data on investment, corruption is measured at …

We let students play a corruption game, embedded into a variant of the ultimatum game.
Those allotted the role of public servants chose between whistleblowing, opportunism and …

This article uses survey and experimental data from prison inmates and comparable non-
inmates to examine the drivers of rising criminality in China. We find that China's high sex …

In Corruption in Latin America the reader is presented with an alternative starting point for
understanding corruption in this key region. The author asserts that corruption is a stable …

In this article we examine the effectiveness of bonuses and fines in an “inspection game,”
where costly inspection allows an authority to detect whether or not an individual complies …

Scholars generally assume that authoritarian regimes will not curb corruption because
autocrats benefit from it politically, use anti-corruption campaigns as excuses to purge rivals …