The Transition of Corruption: From Poverty to Honesty

Authors

• Gundlach
• E.
• Paldam
• M.

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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.