The plough, gender roles, and corruption

Gautam Hazarika ()

Economics of Governance, 2018, vol. 19, issue 2, No 3, 163 pages

Abstract: Abstract Cross-country empirical studies of corruption using ordinary least squares commonly find that nations in which women play a greater role in economic and public life suffer less corruption. This has been a controversial finding since measures of women’s participation in the economy and politics are likely endogenous. This study uses an aspect of national ancestral geography as a novel instrumental variable in the estimation of the true causal effects of gender upon corruption. It thereby finds that ordinary least squares estimates of the effects of gender upon corruption are biased. This conclusion is upheld in time-series fixed-effects estimation.

Keywords: Gender; Corruption; Gender norms (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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Working Paper: The Plough, Gender Roles, and Corruption (2017)
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