An interesting recent paper by Jetter and Parmeter (World Development 2018), (J-P), provides a useful robustness analysis of the significant determinants of cross-country corruption and identifies institutions and literacy as key influences, but a nation’s culture is shown to not matter. Whereas J-P consider a range of potential influences on corruption, their findings are based on a single measure of corruption. This note considers two additional widely used measures of corruption and tests the robustness of J-P’s findings. Results show support for a number of J-P’s findings but also show the sensitivity of their main findings to the sample size, and that the influence of culture is shown to be not insignificant. This suggests appropriate caution be used in framing policies, especially when they are based on a single measure of variables that are plagued by measurement issues.

中文翻译：

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“通过全球腐败决定因素排序：制度和教育问题——而非文化”的复制（世界发展 2018）

Jetter 和 Parmeter 最近发表的一篇有趣的论文（World Development 2018），(JP) 对跨国腐败的重要决定因素进行了有用的稳健性分析，并将制度和识字率确定为关键影响因素，但表明一个国家的文化并不重要. 虽然 JP 考虑了一系列对腐败的潜在影响，但他们的调查结果是基于对腐败的单一衡量标准。本说明考虑了另外两个广泛使用的腐败衡量标准，并测试了 J-P 调查结果的稳健性。结果显示支持 J-P 的许多发现，但也显示了他们的主要发现对样本量的敏感性，并且文化的影响并非微不足道。这表明在制定政策时要适当谨慎，