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. …

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 …