those without. Using the recent anti-corruption campaign in China as a quasi-experiment, we investigate how endeavors for … counter-corruption affect inequality and potential cronyism in bureaucratic employment through inter-generational transmission … more than 5 percentage points. Moreover, we explore potential mechanisms through which anti-corruption efforts have …

policy makers about the limits of transparency in curtailing "grey" types of corruption. …

The paper studies the effect of additional government revenues on political corruption and on the quality of … endogenous entry of political candidates. The evidence refers to municipalities in Brazil, where federal transfers to municipal … implications of the theory and identify the causal effect of larger federal transfers on political corruption and the observed …

This paper examines whether access to information enhances political accountability. Based upon the results of Brazil …'s recent anti-corruption program that randomly audits municipal expenditures of federally-transferred funds, it estimates the … effects of the disclosure of local government corruption practices upon the re-election success of incumbent mayors. Comparing …

reports of an anti-corruption program in Brazil, to test whether the possibility of re-election affects the level of rents …Political corruption is a concern of many modern democracies. It weakens democratic institutions, restricts public … determines corruption is limited. This paper uses a novel dataset of political corruption in local governments, constructed from …

Conventional wisdom depicts corruption as a tax on incumbent firms. This paper challenges this view in two ways. First …, by arguing that corruption matters not so much because of the value of the bribe ("tax"), but because of another less … studied feature of corruption, namely bribe unavoidability. Second, we argue that the social costs of corruption arise not …

student outcomes. We use data from the auditing of Brazil's local governments to construct objective measures of corruption … does matter for student achievement. -- corruption ; test scores ; local governments ; Brazil …This paper examines if money matters in education by looking at whether missing resources due to corruption affect …

We investigate the distributional consequences of a corruption-fighting initiative in Romania targeting the endemic … for teachers and students. We find that the campaign was effective in reducing corruption and, in particular, that … poverty status we show that curbing corruption led to a worrisome score gap increase between poor and non-poor students …

While there is substantial corruption in developing countries, the costs imposed by corruption on individuals and … households are little understood. This study examines the relationship between exposure to local corruption and mental health, as …-to-day petty corruption is positively associated with psychological distress. Our results are robust to a variety of specification …

funds. We use data from Brazil's federal legislature, which grants each federal legislator a budget to fund public projects … limits also reduce distortions, but come at the cost of more corruption, which makes it a welfare-reducing policy. …