“…In addition, given the illegal nature of the phenomenon, reliable observational data on corruption are often hard to obtain, which in turn has led to a surge in research using data from the economic lab. This recent literature has offered experimental evidence on several (behavioral) aspects relating to corruption, such as social norms and culture (Cameron et al, 2009 ; Barr and Serra, 2010 ; Salmon and Serra, 2017 ; Schram et al, 2019 ), gender (Alatas et al, 2009 ), monitoring and punishment (Abbink et al, 2002 ; Armantier and Boly, 2011 ; Serra, 2012 ; Ryvkin et al, 2017 ), wages and appointment procedures of public officials (Azfar and Nelson, 2007 ), legal immunity for bribe givers (Abbink et al, 2014 ), transparency (Khadjavi et al, 2017 ; Parra et al, 2019 ), audience effects and observability (Salmon and Serra, 2017 ; García-Gallego et al, 2020 ).…”