How Honesty Drain Impoverishes Places Where Rule Abiding is Low
The newly observed phenomenon of “honesty drain” can subtract human capital and economic resources from areas where the tendency to break rules is higher, according to “Rule Breaking, Honesty and Migration”, a paper by Massimo Anelli, (Bocconi Department of Social and Political Sciences), Andrea Ichino (European University Institute) and Tommaso Colussi (Catholic University, Milan), published in Journal of Law and Economics.