State history and corruption

Dorian Owen and Trung Vu

Economics Letters, 2022, vol. 218, issue C

Abstract: This paper explores the effect of state history, measured from 3500 BCE to 2000 CE, on control of corruption. Using cross-country data, we find that the relationship between the capacity to control corruption and accumulated statehood experience follows a hump-shaped (inverted-U) pattern. This result is robust to using alternative measures of state history or corruption, controlling for other measures of early development and contemporary determinants of corruption, and removing outliers.

Keywords: State history; Corruption; Deep roots (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D73 K42 N00 O11 O57 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2022.110774

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