bribery and show that bribing for any type of public service, not just for health services, has an adverse impact. We also …Corruption is pervasive, but we know little about its effects on individual lives. This paper examines whether living … in a corrupt society has deleterious effects on health. Using individual-level data from 28 post-communist countries, we …

In this paper, we study the evolution of corruption patterns in 27 postcommunist countries during the period 1996 …-2012 using the Control of Corruption Index and the corruption category Markov transition probability matrix. This method allows … us to generate the long-run distribution of corruption among the post-communist countries. Our empirical findings suggest …

distinguish between market corruption (impersonal bribery), and network (or parochial) corruption which is conditional on the … market corruption. Yet, network corruption, unlike bribery, is not able to "grease the wheels" and is not associated with …Economists tend to reduce all corruption to impersonal market-like transactions, ignoring the role of social ties in …