Does corruption grease or sand the wheels of economic growth? This paper uses metaanalysis techniques to systematically … evaluate the evidence addressing this question. It uses a data set comprising 460 estimates of the effect of corruption on … for institutions and trade openness (both are found to deflate the negative effect of corruption), authors' affiliation …

aftermath of major wars. Motivated by this fact, we offer a theory of political transitions which focuses on the impact of … evidence consistent with our theory is also provided. -- Autocracy ; democracy ; wars ; redistribution …

plays on the world stage. The main thesis of our work is that, despite the triumphant rhetoric praising the merits of …

implications of the theory and identify the causal effect of larger federal transfers on political corruption and the observed …The paper studies the effect of additional government revenues on political corruption and on the quality of … politicians, both with theory and data. The theory is based on a version of the career concerns model of political agency with …

This paper analyzes the relationship between gender and corruption, controlling for country-specific heterogeneity in a … the involvement of women in society and the absence of corruption. However, once country-fixed effects are acknowledged … corruption by 2.5 index points (scale from zero to ten). Surprisingly, the link between the share of women in the labor force and …

real choropleth geographical world maps, we utilize the data from the World Values Survey (WVS) to arrive at robust …

In this paper we present and test a theory of how political corruption, found in many transition and emerging market … institutions that do not punish political corruption result in political connectedness of firms that in turn has a negative effect …

This paper empirically investigates the relationship between corruption and the emigration of those with high, medium … and low levels of educational attainment. The empirical results indicate that as corruption increases the emigration rate … levels of educational attainment, however, increases at initial levels of corruption and then decreases beyond a certain …