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Corruption is believed to be a major factor impeding economic development, but the importance of legal enforcement … versus cultural norms in controlling corruption is poorly understood. To disentangle these two factors, we exploit a natural … generates a revealed preference measure of government officials' corruption based on real-world behavior taking place in the …
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absenteeism or shirking from legislative sessions; in contrast, non-pecuniary motives, proxied by home-country corruption …
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We study the wealth accumulation of Indian parliamentarians using public disclosures required of all candidates since 2003. Annual asset growth of winners is on average 3 to 6 percentage points higher than runners-up. By performing a within-constituency comparison where both runner-up and winner...
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Evidence from Uganda confirms that corruption retards development even more than taxation does …
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