Podcasts Science Improbable Research Episode #1090: Obesity of Politicians, Corruption in Countries

Episode #1090: Obesity of Politicians, Corruption in Countries

Published: March 13, 2022, 4 p.m.

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The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that make people LAUGH, then THINK.

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In the Ig Informal Lectures, some days after the ceremony, the new Ig Nobel Prize winners attempt to explain what they did, and why they did it. We released these lectures one at a time.

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In Podcast Episode #1090, Marc Abrahams presents the 2021 Ig Nobel Prize for Economics winners Pavlo Blavatskyy. They received the prize for discovering that the obesity of a country\\u2019s politicians may be a good indicator of that country\\u2019s corruption.

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  • REFERENCE: \\u201cObesity of Politicians and Corruption in Post\\u2010Soviet Countries,\\u201d Pavlo Blavatskyy, Economic of Transition and Institutional Change, vol. 29, no. 2, 2021, pp. 343-356.
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The video for this lecture\\u2014graphs, charts and all\\u2014can be found online at www.IMPROBABLE.com.

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Seth Gliksman, Production Assistant

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