This paper examines if money matters in education by looking at whether missing resources due to corruption affect … student outcomes. We use data from the auditing of Brazil's local governments to construct objective measures of corruption … of corruption across municipalities and controlling for student, school, and municipal characteristics, we find a …

Corruption is harmful for public finances and appears closely related to fiscal deficits. We open a new avenue in … addressing the effects of corruption on public deficits through fiscal decentralization. For a sample of 31 OECD countries over … the period 1986–2010, we find that fiscal decentralization contributes to mitigating the adverse effects of corruption on …

Previous studies on the effect of government size on corruption have produced mixed results. In an attempt to explain … these ambiguous results, this study investigates the effect of government size on corruption by taking into account the role … indicate that an increase in government size can lead to a decrease in corruption if the democracy level is sufficiently high …

corruption, privatization, and inter-municipal cooperation. A combination of theory and empirical evidence provides depth and …