Political institutions can affect corruption. We use audit reports from an anti-corruption program in Brazil to … construct new measures of political corruption in local governments and test whether electoral accountability affects the … corruption practices of incumbent politicians. We find significantly less corruption in municipalities where mayors can get …

insights into what determines corruption and how to design policy to combat it. We estimate the model using data from Brazil to …In this paper, we develop a dynamic model of politicians who can engage in corruption. The model offers important … measure voters' willingness to pay for various commonly-proposed anti-corruption policies, such as increasing audit …

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

enhancing political and judiciary accountability. We do so in the context of Brazil's anti-corruption program, which randomly …Political corruption is considered a major impediment to economic development, and yet it remains pervasive throughout … the world. This paper examines the extent to which government audits of public resources can reduce corruption by …

Does combating corruption reduce clientelism? We examine the impact of a prominent anti-corruption program on …