? The core design challenge is managing the tradeoff between Type-II errors of inclusion (including corruption) against Type … the delivery of India's largest social protection program (subsidized food) in the state of Jharkhand. By itself … corruption in welfare programs can also generate non-trivial costs in terms of exclusion and inconvenience to genuine …

Evidence on the implementation of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act suggests that the available work is … administrative costs and local corruption. Administrative reforms by the center can have perverse effects. Policy implications are …

corruption. Students who demonstrate lower levels of prosocial preferences in the laboratory games are also more likely to prefer … corruption do not systematically predict job preferences. We find that a screening process that chooses the highest ability … applicants would not alter the average propensity for corruption among the applicant pool. Our findings imply that differential …

Although the theoretical literature on corruption is well developed, empirical work in this area has lagged because it … has proven difficult to isolate corrupt behavior in the data. In this paper, we look for evidence of corruption in an … stables play a role in facilitating the corruption. In times of increased media scrutiny, the match rigging disappears …

This paper offers a new interpretation of the connection between openness and good governance. Assuming that corruption … display lower corruption in equilibrium. In data, naturally more open economies' do exhibit less corruption even after taking …

less corrupt governments receive more foreign aid. On the contrary, according to some measures of corruption, more corrupt … governments receive more aid. Also, we could not find any evidence that an increase in foreign aid reduces corruption. In summary …