The transition of corruption: From poverty to honesty

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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Year of publication:	2009
Authors:	Gundlach, Erich ; Paldam, Martin
Published in:	Economics Letters. - Elsevier, ISSN 0165-1765. - Vol. 103.2009, 3, p. 146-148
Publisher:	Elsevier
Subject:	Long-run development Corruption Biogeography

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Type of publication:	Article
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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