Regulation and U.S. State-Level Corruption

Sanchari Choudhury ()
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Sanchari Choudhury: Southern Methodist University

2018 Stata Conference from Stata Users Group

Abstract: I exploit a panel data set on U.S. for the time span 1990-2013 to evaluate the causal impact of government regulation on bureaucratic corruption. Despite the stylized fact that corruption and regulation are positively correlated, there is a lack of empirical evidence to substantiate a causal relationship. Using novel data on federal regulation of industries (Al-Ubaydli and McLaughlin 2015), and convictions of public officials from the Public Integrity Section, I apply a stochastic frontier approach to account for one-sided measurement error in bureaucratic corruption and the Lewbel (2012) identification strategy to control for potential endogeneity of regulation. Results are striking. Based on the preferred model, there is evidence of endogeneity of regulation and absence of a causal link between regulation and corruption. However, if any of the above two econometric issues are ignored, evidence of a spurious relationship between corruption and regulation is found.

Date: 2018-08-02
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