This paper analyzes how changes in the concentration of political power affect long-run development. We study Brazil …

transfer program intended on reducing school dropout rates among children of poor households in Brazil. We show that while this …

Political institutions can affect corruption. We use audit reports from an anti-corruption program in Brazil to …

across Brazil's municipal governments. The analysis exploits discontinuities in wages across municipalities induced by a …

student outcomes. We use data from the auditing of Brazil's local governments to construct objective measures of corruption …

enhancing political and judiciary accountability. We do so in the context of Brazil's anti-corruption program, which randomly …

funds. We use data from Brazil's federal legislature, which grants each federal legislator a budget to fund public projects …