Olken, Benjamin; Pande, Rohini - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Recent years have seen a remarkable expansion in economists' ability to measure corruption. This, in turn, has led to a … new generation of well-identified, microeconomic studies. We review the evidence on corruption in developing countries in … light of these recent advances, focusing on three questions: how much corruption is there, what are the efficiency …