Some rather surprising results
I just came across an interesting paper that provides evidence against my prior belief that increasing civil service salaries would lower corruption.
It’s called, DO HIGHER SALARIES LOWER PETTY CORRUPTION? A POLICY EXPERIMENT ON WEST AFRICA’S HIGHWAYS
by Foltz and Opoku-Agyemang (heres a link).
Here’s the abstract:
In one of the most ambitious public sector reform experiments in Africa, the Ghana government doubled its police officer salaries in 2010 in part to mitigate petty corruption on its roads. Neighboring countries in the West African region left their police salaries unchanged. Using unique data on bribes paid from over 2,100 truck trips in West Africa and representing over 45,000 bribe opportunities, we evaluate the reform impacts on petty corruption using a difference-in-difference method that exploits the exogenous policy experiment. By following bribes paid by the same trucks in different countries as well as to different civil servants in Ghanaian…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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