Ethnic Diversity, Gender, and Corruption: An Experimental Study in Malaysia

Ethnic Diversity, Gender, and Corruption: An Experimental Study in Malaysia

The literature on gender and corruption posit that women are perceived as less corrupt than men. Yet these studies are devoid of ethnicity. This is concerning as the scholarship on ethnic politics argues that diversity is associated with higher levels of corruption. The extant literature, however, tends to treat gender and ethnicity as mutually exclusive…