Can bribery buy health? Evidence from post-communist countries

Abstract

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Effects of Corruption Control on the Number of Undernourished People in Developing Countries

“…The first effect is more noticeable to people because it impacts their lives. Corruption is one of the possible causes of low service quality, creating a shadowy atmosphere in which misconduct is protected and laws are not effectively enforced in many developing countries [ 119 , 120 ]. Individuals who live in more corrupt countries are frequently less satisfied with their lives than those in less corrupt ones [ 121 ].…”

“…Bribery victims are statistically more likely than non-paying counterparts to experience food insecurity [ 71 ]. Bribes consume a proportion of their money, reducing their food intake [ 120 ]. They also may be forced to pay bribes to acquire access to natural resources [ 119 ].…”

Mining and Mistrust in Government

“…The individual-level data we use comes from the Life in Transition Surveys (LiTS), a collection of nationally representative cross-sectional household surveys on public attitudes and perceptions carried out by the World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in 2006 in the countries of the former communist bloc. LiTS provides good quality data on a comprehensive set of individual-level indicators and has been used in other political economy studies on the region (Aksoy and Tumen, 2021;Anderson, 2021;Becker et al, 2016;Corrado, 2020;Grosfeld et al, 2013;Grosjean, 2011;Guriev and Melnikov, 2018;Mavisakalyan et al, 2021). This is the first study that uses LiTS to explore the consequences of natural resource extraction in the countries of the former communist bloc.…”