Causes of corruption : evidence from China
By B. Dong, Benno Torgler. 2013
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This study explores the causes of corruption in China using provincial panel data. Using both fixed effects and instrumental variables approaches, we find that provinces with greater anti-corruption efforts, higher educational attainment, historic influence from Anglo-American church universities, greater openness, more access to media, higher relative wages of government employees and a greater representation of women in the legislature are markedly less corrupt; whereas social heterogeneity, regulation and resources abundance breed substantial corruption. We also find that fiscal decentralization depresses corruption significantly. Finally, we identify a positive relationship between corruption and economic development in China, which is driven primarily by the transition to a market economy.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Information Systems, Sociology and Political Science
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- Public Governance and Corporate Fraud: Evidence from the Recent Anti-corruption Campaign in China (2018, background): “Higher income further accelerates the spread of education and democratic institutions, which enables the public to better identify corrupt officials (Dong and Torgler 2013).”