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Journal Article

The Transition of Corruption: From Poverty to Honesty

Economics Letters

Authors

  • Gundlach
  • E.
  • Paldam
  • M.

Publication Date

JEL Classification

B25 O1

Key Words

biogeography

corruption

Long-run development

Prehistoric measures of biogeography are used as instruments for modern income levels. We find that our instrumented incomes explain the cross-country pattern of corruption just as well as actual incomes, so the long-run causality appears to be entirely from income to corruption.

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