Gender, Culture, and Corruption: Insights from an Experimental Analysis
By Vivi Alatas, Lisa Cameron, Ananish Chaudhuri, Nisvan Erkal, Lata Gangadharan. Southern Economic Journal, 2008
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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 differences in behavior when confronted with a common bribery problem. Our study departs from the previous literature on gender and corruption by using economic experiments. Based on data collected in Australia (Melbourne), India (Delhi), Indonesia (Jakarta), and Singapore, we show that while women in Australia are less tolerant of corruption than men in Australia, no significant gender differences are seen in India, Indonesia, and Singapore. Hence, our findings suggest that the gender differences reported in previous studies may not be as universal as stated, and may be more culture specific. We also explore behavioral differences by gender across countries and find larger variations in women’s behavior toward corruption than in men’s across the countries in our sample.
Subfields: Demography, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science
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- Women and corruption: What positions must they hold to make a difference? (2014, methodology): “The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) provides data for for the share of women in clerical positions and the share of women in decisionmaking positions.(5) Data for the percentage of women in parliament is compiled by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and has been taken from the World Bank”
- Reducing bureaucratic corruption: Interdisciplinary perspectives on what works (2018, unknown): “Alatas et al. (2009) find in laboratory bribery games in Australia, India, Indonesia, and Singapore that gender differences in tolerance for and willingness to engage in corruption emerge only in Australia. Frank et al. (2011) find that corrupt transactions are less likely to take place in laborator”