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Gender and Bureaucratic Corruption: Evidence from Two Countries / Francesco Decarolis, Raymond Fisman, Paolo Pinotti, Silvia Vannutelli, Yongxiang Wang.

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Book
Author/Creator:
Decarolis, Francesco.
Contributor:
National Bureau of Economic Research.
Fisman, Raymond.
Pinotti, Paolo.
Vannutelli, Silvia.
Wang, Yongxiang.
Series:
Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w28397.
NBER working paper series no. w28397
Language:
English
Physical Description:
1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
Place of Publication:
Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2021.
Summary:
We examine the correlation between gender and bureaucratic corruption using two distinct datasets, one from Italy and a second from China. In each case, we find that women are far less likely to be investigated for corruption than men. In our Italian data, female procurement officials are 34 percent less likely than men to be investigated for corruption by enforcement authorities; in China, female prefectural leaders are as much as 75 percent less likely to be arrested for corruption than men. While these represent correlations (rather than definitive causal effects), both are very robust relationships, which survive the inclusion of fine-grained individual and geographic controls.
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January 2021.

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