The Plough, Gender Roles, and Corruption

29 Pages Posted: 27 Dec 2016 Last revised: 2 Oct 2024

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Gautam Hazarika

University of Texas at Brownsville; IZA Institute of Labor Economics

Abstract

Cross-national empirical studies of corruption commonly find that nations in which women play a greater role in economic and public life suffer less corruption. This finding has been controversial in that measures of women's participation in the labour force and politics are potentially endogenous. This study uses an aspect of national ancestral geography as an instrumental variable towards estimating the true causal effect of gender upon corruption. The ensuing estimates indicate that ordinary least squares estimates of the coefficients of regressors measuring women's economic and political influ-ence, in regressions in which measured corruption is the dependent variable, are substantially biased.

Keywords: corruption, gender

JEL Classification: J16, D73

Suggested Citation

Hazarika, Gautam, The Plough, Gender Roles, and Corruption. IZA Discussion Paper No. 10426, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2889672

Gautam Hazarika (Contact Author)

University of Texas at Brownsville ( email )

Brownsville, TX 78520
United States

IZA Institute of Labor Economics

P.O. Box 7240
Bonn, D-53072
Germany

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