Mavisakalyan, Astghik and Otrachshenko, Vladimir and Popova, Olga (2021) Can bribery buy health? Evidence from post-communist countries. JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE ECONOMICS, 49 (4). pp. 991-1007. ISSN 0147-5967, 1095-7227
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Corruption is pervasive, but we know little about its effects on individual lives. Using individual-level data from 28 post-communist countries, we demonstrate that bribing for public services worsens self-assessed health. We account for endogeneity of bribery and show that bribing for any type of public service, not just for health services, has an adverse impact. We also find that bribery lowers the quality of services received. Moreover, there are potentially high indirect costs of bribery since, as we show, it comes at the expense of cutting food consumption. These findings suggest that corruption is a potentially important source behind the poor health outcomes in many developing countries.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | INFORMAL PAYMENTS; MARITAL-STATUS; CORRUPTION; CARE; INSTITUTIONS; COSTS; INEQUALITIES; REGIONS; POVERTY; QUALITY; Bribery; Corruption; Health; Post-communist countries |
| Subjects: | 300 Social sciences > 320 Political science |
| Divisions: | Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IESES) |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Sep 2022 07:03 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Sep 2022 07:03 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/47239 |
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