This blog is a big fan of papers which use innovative ways to gauge some micro/macro issue.
This paper by Raymond Fisman and Edward Miguel use a similar way to track corruption in an econony.
NY City is place to large no. of diplomats. Before 2002, these diplomats could engage in parking violations, get tickets but were not really liable to pay penalties. A law after 2002 changed this. So, the authors look at these violations and analyse it with corruption in their home countries. They find that people who violate more happen to be from more corrupt countries!
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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