Foreign aid, women in parliament and corruption: empirical evidence from the 2000s

Elias Shukralla and William Allan ()
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William Allan: Siena College

Economics Bulletin, 2011, vol. 31, issue 1, 519-533

Abstract: Using data for the 2000s, this paper explores the impact of foreign aid and the percentage of women in parliament on corruption. In doing so, it combines the aid – corruption literature with the literature that addresses the impact of gender on corruption. We also inquire if aid is more effective in countries with a larger participation of women in parliament. We find that neither aid nor the percentage of women in parliament affects perceived corruption in a significant way. Moreover, the impact of aid on corruption does not seem to be affected by the share of women in parliament.On the other hand,a long-established democracy is consistently found to be significant in affecting corruption.Our results are robust to various specifications, alternative measures of corruption and use of estimation techniques.

Keywords: Foreign aid; women in parliament; corruption (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-02-14
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