“…3 Outside Europe, efforts to reproduce a more detailed description of cross-country gradients of corruption tolerance could be found only in the third round of the Afrobarometer (2005). 4 When it comes to effective comparison, studies have adopted mainly few available items (everyday situations to be characterized as justifiable or not, such as 'avoiding a fare on public transport' or 'someone accepting a bribe in the course of their duties') from the World Values Survey/European Values Study (WVS/EVS) as a proxy for TtC (Catterberg & Moreno, 2005;Gatti et al, 2003;Keller & Sik, 2009;Lavena, 2013;Malmberg, 2019;Moreno, 2002;Pisor & Gurven, 2015;Pop, 2012) or opted for other pre-existent questions that could somehow represent it (Chang & Huang, 2016;Chang & Kerr, 2017), with particular reference to the EB approach, i.e. the Index of Tolerance to Corruption composed of three conducts related to public-private interactions that may be seen as corrupt (if it is acceptable to give money, to give a gift, or to do a favor to get something from the public administration or a public service) created by the European Commission (2014).…”