Can bribery buy health? Evidence from post-communist countries
利用28个后共产主义国家的个人数据，研究发现贿赂公共服务会恶化自评健康，降低服务质量，并导致削减食品消费，揭示腐败是发展中国家健康不佳的重要来源。
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.