Sextortion and corruption

Doris Aja-Eke; Robert Gillanders; Idrissa Ouedraogo; Windkouni Haoua Eugenie Maiga

doi:10.1080/13504851.2023.2289894

Sextortion and corruption

Doris Aja-Eke
, Robert Gillanders
, Idrissa Ouedraogo
, Windkouni Haoua Eugenie Maiga

Department of Economics

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We show that the standard economic and institutional factors that predict corruption do not significantly correlate with the share of people who have either experienced sextortion (sexualized forms of corruption) personally or know someone who has. However, sextortion is more common in more corrupt countries. Although the perception that sextortion is common falls with corruption. These results suggest that corruption both facilitates and masks sexual predation.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	830-834
Number of pages	5
Journal	Applied Economics Letters
Volume	32
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2023.2289894
Publication status	Published - 30 Mar 2025

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