An experimental evaluation of an anti-corruption intervention among Ukrainian university students
BP2-STS
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01.11.2015
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Anti-Corruption Campaigns
Corruption
Academic Integrity
University
Students
Ukraine
Experiment
Randomized Trial
English
In this paper, we investigate experimentally the effect of an anti-corruption intervention -an info folder based on materials developed by Transparency International- on Ukrainian university students’ willingness to participate in an anti-corruption campaign and their general attitude toward corruption. In a survey of 600 students in the Ukrainian city of Lviv, individuals were randomly exposed to either the anti-corruption folder (treatment group) or a folder with information about Lviv (control group). The results suggest that students who have previous experience with bribing are more open to the campaign, while the effect on the total sample is not statistically significant. Furthermore, the intervention increases the overall perception that corruption is a (long-term) part of society rather than a temporary phenomenon. Finally, students with experience in corrupt practices tend to adopt a more negative view of corruption. For those without such experiences, however, we find some indication that the treatment could bolster the acceptance of corruption by instructing the students about its dissemination. The effects of this intervention are therefore ambivalent and appear to depend on the students’ previous exposure to corruption.
- Collections
- Faculty
- Faculté des sciences économiques et sociales et du management
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Economics
- Series statement
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- Working Papers SES ; 462
- License
- License undefined
- Identifiers
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- RERO DOC 257507
- RERO R008295575
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/304736
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