Wage cuts, Social Distributional Preferences, and Political Corruption

• In Event: Experiments on Taxes, Corruption, and Prejudice

Brief Overview

In this paper, we provide causal evidence on the effects of an exogenous wage cut on political corruption, while holding selection constant, the potential independent effect of selection on corruption, and how they interact to affect social norms.

Author

• Carlos G. Scartascini, Inter-American development bank