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Title: | Can Bribery Buy Health? Evidence from Post-Cmmunist Countries |
Authors: | Mavisakalyan, A. Otrachshenko, V. Popova, O. |
Issue Date: | 2021 |
Publisher: | Academic Press Inc. Elsevier BV |
Citation: | Mavisakalyan A. Can Bribery Buy Health? Evidence from Post-Cmmunist Countries / A. Mavisakalyan, V. Otrachshenko, O. Popova // Journal of Comparative Economics. — 2021. — Vol. 49. — Iss. 4. — P. 991-1007. |
Abstract: | 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. © 2021 Association for Comparative Economic Studies. |
Keywords: | BRIBERY CORRUPTION HEALTH POST-COMMUNIST COUNTRIES |
URI: | http://elar.urfu.ru/handle/10995/111941 |
Access: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
RSCI ID: | 46073133 |
SCOPUS ID: | 85105823216 |
WOS ID: | 000756859700007 |
PURE ID: | 28947708 |
ISSN: | 0147-5967 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.jce.2021.04.006 |
metadata.dc.description.sponsorship: | We thank Steven Bond-Smith, Alan Duncan, Jan Feld, Silvia Salazar and the participants of BCEC Research Development Series 2019 for valuable comments. The authors gratefully acknowledge the research travel support under Australia–Germany Joint Research Cooperation Scheme (DAAD PPP Australia 2019 funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research ). Vladimir Otrachshenko acknowledges the funding by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) from funds of Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation (BMZ), SDGnexus Network (Grant No. 57526248 ), program “exceed - Hochschulexzellenz in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit”. |
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