ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that the well-documented empirical relationship between gender and corruption is the product of multiple causal mechanisms that push and pull against one another. In some contexts, mechanisms linking gender and corruption push in the same direction and create a strong, statistically significant relationship between the two. In other contexts, these mechanisms can cancel each other out to create a weak relationship or none at all. The chapter’s key conclusion is that future research should focus on separately identifying the multiple causal mechanisms that make women less susceptible to corruption than men with particular emphasis on how institutional, social or individual characteristics can condition or modify the relationship.
