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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hübler, Olaf
• Koch, Melanie
• Menkhoff, Lukas
• Schmidt, Ulrich

Titel

Corruption and cheating: Evidence from rural Thailand

Ist Teil von

• World development, 2021-09, Vol.145, p.1-43, Article 105526

Ort / Verlag

Amsterdam: Elsevier

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This study tests the prediction that perceived corruption reduces ethical behavior. Integrating a standard "cheating" experiment into a broad household survey in rural Thailand, we find tentative support for this prediction: respondents who perceive corruption in state affairs are more likely to cheat and, thus, to fortify the negative consequences of corruption. Interestingly, there is a small group of non-conformers. The main relation is robust to consideration of socio-demographic, attitudinal, and situational control variables. Attendance of others at the cheating experiment, stimulating the reputational concern to be seen as honest, reduces cheating, thus indicating transparency as a remedy.