Long‐run persistence of trust and corruption in the bureaucracy 2010-2015

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This paper seeks to study the long lasting effects of the Habsburg Empire's institutions on current trust on government entities, on the same territory. Towards this end, the authors use a micro dataset of the 2006 Life in Transition Survey (LiTS), collected by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in 29 countries between August and October 2006, that provides measures of trust and corruption in Eastern European countries. In each country, 1,000 households were surveyed, with 20 households coming from 50 different locations. They restrict the analysis to countries that are either successor states of the Habsburg Empire or neighboring countries thereof: Albania, Belarus, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Hungary, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Ukraine. Drawing on a variety of historical sources, they coded the location of each observation in the LiTS dataset in terms of its affiliation with the Habsburg Empire. A notable characteristic of the LiTS is that it requires respondents to declare the degree of intensity when answering questions.

Data collected from the Life in Transition Survey (LiTS) collected by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in 29 countries between August and October 2006; and other sources of information such as Hrvatski Povijesni Altlas (2003), Kinder and Hilgemann (2004), Leisering (2004), Magocsi (2002), Reden (1995), Rothaug (2001)

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-854139
Metadata Access https://datacatalogue.cessda.eu/oai-pmh/v0/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_ddi25&identifier=2d8e63b37448567300a4b748d8cbc7b0b1034360571d5ff0935c4fbaac80d89f
Provenance
Creator Becker , S, Monash University; Boeckh, K, Ios Regensburg; Woessmann, L, University of Munich
Publisher UK Data Service
Publication Year 2020
Funding Reference Economic and Social Research Council
Rights Sascha Becker , Monash University. Katrin Boeckh, Ios Regensburg. Ludger Woessmann, University of Munich; The Data Collection is available from an external repository. Access is available via Related Resources.
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Resource Type Numeric; Text
Discipline Economics; History; Humanities; Social and Behavioural Sciences
Spatial Coverage Albania; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Belarus; Bulgaria; Croatia; Czech Republic; Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia; Hungary; Moldova; Montenegro; Poland; Romania; Russia; Serbia; Slovakia; Slovenia; Ukraine