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| dc.contributor.author | Gillanders, Robert | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-06-15T15:58:02Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-06-15T15:58:02Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2011-11 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10197/3680 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper examines the effect that experiencing corruption has on an individual’s mental health using microeconomic data from the Afrobarometer surveys. The results show a statistically significant and economically meaningful effect in both binary and ordered probit models using both an experience of corruption index and a simple binary variable. Having to pay a bribe to obtain documents and permits, to avoid problems with the police or to access medical care emerge as the arenas in which corruption can have a damaging effect on mental health. Some evidence is presented that an individual needs to experience such corruption more than ‘once or twice’ for this effect to become evident. | en |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Not applicable | en |
| dc.format.extent | 200109 bytes | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | University College Dublin. School of Economics | en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | UCD Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series | en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | WP11/26 | en |
| dc.relation.requires | Economists Online Collection & RePEc | en |
| dc.subject | Mental Health | en |
| dc.subject | Corruption | en |
| dc.subject | Well-Being | en |
| dc.subject | Sub-Saharan Africa | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Mental health--Africa, Sub-Saharan | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Corruption--Psychological aspects--Africa, Sub-Saharan | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Well-being--Africa, Sub-Saharan | en |
| dc.title | The mental health cost of corruption: evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa | en |
| dc.type | Working Paper | en |
| dc.internal.availability | Full text available | en |
| dc.internal.webversions | http://www.ucd.ie/t4cms/WP11_26.pdf | en |
| dc.status | Not peer reviewed | en |
| dc.neeo.contributor | Gillanders|Robert|aut| | en |
| dc.description.othersponsorship | Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences | en |
| dc.description.admin | ti, sp, ab - kpw5/12/11 | en |
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