Misunderestimating Corruption
Corruption estimates rely largely on self-reports of affected individuals and officials. Yet, survey respondents are often reticent to tell the truth about sensitive subjects, leading to downward biases in survey-based corruption estimates. This paper develops a method to estimate the prevalence of...
Main Authors: | Kraay, Aart, Murrell, Peter |
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Format: | Journal Article |
Language: | en_US |
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MIT Press
2016
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23941 |
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