Arbeitspapier
Reexamining the link between gender and corruption: The role of social institutions
In this paper we reexamine the link between gender inequality and corruption. We review the literature on the relationship between representation of women in economic and political life, democracy and corruption, and bring in a new previously omitted variable that captures the level of discrimination against women in a society: social institutions related to gender inequality. Using a sample of developing countries we regress corruption on the representation of women, democracy and other control variables. Then we add the subindex civil liberties from the OECD Gender, Institutions and DevelopmentDatabase as the measure of social institutions related to gender inequality. The results show that corruption is higher in countries where social institutions deprive women of their freedom to participate in social life, even accounting for democracy and representation of women in political and economic life as well as for other variables. Our findings suggest that, in a context where social values disadvantage women, it might not be enough to push democratic reforms and to increase the participation of women to reduce corruption.
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Englisch
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Series: Discussion Papers ; No. 24
Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations; Corruption
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
Gender inequality
Corruption
Ziegler, Maria
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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20.09.2024, 08:22 MESZ
Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Branisa, Boris
- Ziegler, Maria
- Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Courant Research Centre - Poverty, Equity and Growth (CRC-PEG)
Entstanden
- 2010
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