include general social trust, trust in co-workers, trust in neighbours, and trust in police. In addition, some Canadian …Our results reveal sufficiently strong linkages between trust and well-being to support much more study of how trust … differences in trust levels among individuals. New experimental data from Canada show that wallets are far more likely to be …

We analyze the organization of corruption in a state agency. The dual mandate of the Democratic Republic of the Congo …'s traffic police agency is to manage traffic and to enforce the traffic code. We first document that, in the capital's branch … bribes paid by drivers, of which 63% is generated through a "quota scheme:" managers at police stations ask agents posted at …

on an anti-drunken driving campaign in Rajasthan, India. In each police station, sobriety checkpoints were either rotated …Should police activity be narrowly focused and high force, or widely-dispersed but of moderate intensity? Critics of …, the police may take advantage of this period to intervene intensively in the most productive location. We propose a multi …

-scale randomized trials conducted in collaboration with the state police of Rajasthan, India sought to increase police efficiency and … improve interactions with the public. In a sample of 162 police stations serving almost 8 million people, the first experiment … tested four interventions recommended by police reform panels: limitations of arbitrary transfers, rotation of duty …

anti-corruption enforcement affect the expected quality of governance through candidate self-selection. We also show that …

that considers the implications of trust networks. A bond of trust may permit an implicit quid pro quo to substitute for a … bribe, which reduces corruption. Appropriate networks are more easily established in small towns, by long-term residents of … battle against corruption faced by policy-makers in rapidly urbanizing countries with high fertility. I show that victims of …

? 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 …%. Subsequent reforms that made use of authenticated transaction data to determine allocations to the program coincided with large …

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

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 …