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Do higher salaries lower petty corruption? A policy experiment on West Africa’s highways

Working paper 9 Feb 2016 State and Political Economy

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  • Can raising salaries reduce police corruption in Ghana?

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Jeremy Foltz

Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Kweku Opoku-Agyemang

Research Fellow, University of California - Berkeley
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