Social Interactions and the Spread of Corruption: Evidence from the Health Sector of Vietnam
Social Interactions and the Spread of Corruption: Evidence from the Health Sector of Vietnam
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社会互动与腐败蔓延：来自越南卫生部门的证据
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2008
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V. Nguyen
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V. Nguyen
我们证明，社会互动可以传播社会中的轻微腐败。使用一个独特的健康数据集，从越南和控制省略的变量和反向因果关系，我们表明，医院选择的建议增加了患者的倾向，给医院工作人员贿赂，以及提高贿赂金额。我们加强了因果关系的解释表明，在较高的平均贿赂领域的建议接收者更有可能比那些从较低的贿赂活动的地区贿赂。这表明，通过社会互动提供的关于医院选择的建议也包含了贿赂医务人员以获得更好治疗的信息。我们的研究结果对政策制定者设计打击轻微腐败的战略具有重要意义
We demonstrate that social interactions can spread petty corruption in society. Using a unique health dataset from Vietnam and controlling for omitted variables and reverse causality, we show that advice on hospital choice increases the propensity of patients to give bribes to hospital staff as well as raises the bribe amount. We strengthen the causality interpretation by showing that advice receivers in areas of higher average bribery are more likely to bribe than those from areas of lower bribery activity. This suggests that advice on hospital choice, given through social interaction, also contains information on bribery to medical staff for better treatment. Our results have important implications for policymakers in designing strategies against petty corruption