Female Officials are Less Corrupt Than Men (IMAGE)
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New research by Francesco Decarolis and Paolo Pinotti, Professors at Bocconi University, Milan, suggests that women may be significantly less corrupt than men. Women at different levels of government bureaucracy in both China and Italy are much less likely to be suspected of corruption and arrested for it. These results are of clear policy relevance. They suggest an intriguing idea for fighting corruption in public office: assigning women bureaucrats to work at tasks involving higher risks of corruption.
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Weiwei Chen
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