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anexperimentalevaluationofananticorruptioninterventionamongukrainianuniversitystudents
Journal article

An experimental evaluation of an anti-corruption intervention among Ukrainian university students

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  • Denisova-Schmidt, Elena School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of St. Gallen (HSG), Switzerland
  • Huber, Martin ORCID Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
  • Prytula, Yaroslav Lviv Business School of the Ukrainian Catholic University, Ukraine
  • 2016
Published in:
  • Eurasian Geography and Economics. - Informa UK Limited. - 2016, vol. 56, no. 6, p. 713-734
Anti-corruption campaigns
Corruption
Academic integrity
University
Students
Ukraine
Experiment
Randomized trial
Economics and Econometrics
Geography
Planning and Development
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 anticorruption 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.
Faculty
Faculté des sciences économiques et sociales et du management
Department
Département d'économie politique
Language
  • English
Classification
Economics
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green
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