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The Welfare Costs of Corruption
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Abstract Corruption has been shown to affect a variety of economic indicators, especially GDP per capita. However, as GDP is not a genuine indicator of welfare, it may reflect the welfare costs of corruption only in an incomplete way. This paper uses self-rated subjective well-being as an empirical approxima... view more
Corruption has been shown to affect a variety of economic indicators, especially GDP per capita. However, as GDP is not a genuine indicator of welfare, it may reflect the welfare costs of corruption only in an incomplete way. This paper uses self-rated subjective well-being as an empirical approximation to general welfare and shows that cross-national welfare - operationalized in this way - is affected by corruption not only indirectly, through GDP, but also directly, through non-material factors. The paper estimates the size of these effects as well as their monetary equivalent. The direct effect - not previously investigated in the corruption literature - is found to be substantially larger than the indirect effect.... view less
Document language
English
Publication Year
2008
Page/Pages
p. 1839-1849
Journal
Applied Economics, 40 (2008) 14
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/00036840600905225
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)