Abstract
This paper analyzes the micro-level data to identify the individual characteristics tolerating the bribery behavior in a developing economy. As an attempt to analyze the suspected states of severe corruption, this analysis employs a survey on the people’s recognition and values regarding the corruption in the Philippines. The results are as follows. First, people become more unwilling to justify the bribery if they completed their secondary and tertiary education, compared to the graduates of primary education solely. Second, the believers of a spiritual world, or religiously devout people, are more unwilling to tolerate such misconduct.
