Bureaucrats hired through connections are more dishonest and less pro-social: behavioral evidence from four countries

• In Event: Composition of the Civil Service: Who Serves and Why?

Brief Overview

Connection-based recruitment attracts and selects bureaucrats who are more dishonest and less pro-social. We test this argument with two behavioral games and original survey data from over 3,800 bureaucrats in Bangladesh, Ghana, Malawi, and Nepal.

Authors

• Jan Meyer-Sahling, University of Nottingham

• Kim Sass Mikkelsen, Roskilde University

• Virginia Oliveros, Tulane University

• Christian Schuster, University College London

• Brigitte Seim, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

• Rachel Sigman, University of Denver