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The changing relationship between gender and corruption1

In: Handbook on Gender and Corruption in Democracies

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  • Justin Esarey
  • Maya Dalton

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Greater representation of women in government is strongly associated with less corruption in that government among democracies. In this chapter, we show that the empirical association between women’s representation and corruption has gotten smaller over the last 40 years. We probe the etiology of this decline using instrumental variables analysis, allowing us to eliminate simultaneity and confounding as barriers to causal inference. Our results indicate that the negative effect of corruption on women’s representation has grown weaker during this period, but the causal impact of increased women’s representation on reducing corruption remained relatively stable. We theorize that corruption networks might be less effective now than they once were at protecting their operations via excluding women from public office because of increased women’s representation worldwide.

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  • Justin Esarey & Maya Dalton, 2024. "The changing relationship between gender and corruption1," Chapters, in: Tiffany D. Barnes & Emily Beaulieu (ed.), Handbook on Gender and Corruption in Democracies, chapter 11, pages 125-136, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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