Can campaign promises change voter behavior, even where clientelism and vote buying are pervasive? We elicit …

Does combating corruption reduce clientelism? We examine the impact of a prominent anti-corruption program on … clientelism using a novel representative survey of rural Brazilians. Randomized audits reduce politicians' provision of campaign …

hires are relatively more qualified. Our results suggest a potential upside to patronage as campaign connections create new …

We analyze the organization of corruption in a state agency. The dual mandate of the Democratic Republic of the Congo … profits and distortions beyond those that would be made possible via corruption by individual state officials …

disutility from corruption,' i.e., the trade-between more generous social assistance and losses due to corruption and fraud …. Merely mentioning corruption reduced perceived program success, equivalent to distributing more than 20 percent less aid …. However, respondents were not sensitive to the amount of corruption--respondents were willing to trade off $2 of additional …

arise when monitoring corruption is difficult relative to monitoring the provision of public services, and politically …-important groups of citizens do not bear the full cost of corruption. The existence of such systems can distort the effective incidence … of the tax burden, reduce the incentives of government to fight corruption, and legitimize bribe-taking …

Corruption is a widespread phenomenon in many developing and transitional economies. China is a country in profile both … in the prevalence of corruption, and in its attempts to root out corruption. The recent anti-corruption campaign in China … also provides unusual amount of data to study the causes and consequences of corruption, which will have implications for …

cost of corruption, in the context of public transport. We first document that police stops can lead to long bribe …

We conduct parallel surveys of legislators and citizens in three countries to study their tolerance for corruption. In …-offs between, for example, probity and efficiency: both perceive corruption as undesirable but prevalent. These novel descriptive … data further reveal that legislators generally have accurate beliefs about public opinion on corruption and understand its …