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Social Audits and MGNREGA Delivery: Lessons from Andhra Pradesh

Afridi, Farzana; Iversen, Vegard - 2014

panel data set assembled from official social audit reports, we study the impact of these audits on MGNREGA delivery in … are laid out and credibly enforced. Our findings suggest a changing anatomy of corruption, where transgressors keep one …

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Social Audits and MGNREGA Delivery: Lessons from Andhra Pradesh

Afridi, Farzana; Iversen, Vegard - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

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Measuring Performance: Ranking State Success over Two Decades in India

Afridi, Farzana; Dhillon, Amrita; Chaudhuri, Arka Roy; … - 2021

This paper proposes new composite measures of relative and dynamic state performance to improve governance and delivery of public programs in developing countries with a federal structure. We rank the performance of 19 major Indian states on two large development programs launched by the Indian...

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Bribery in Health Care in Peru and Uganda

Hunt, Jennifer - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

In this paper, I examine the role of household income in determining who bribes and how much they bribe in health care in Peru and Uganda. I find that rich patients are more likely than other patients to bribe in public health care: doubling household consumption increases the bribery...

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Corruption and Mental Health: Evidence from Vietnam

Sharma, Smriti; Singhal, Saurabh; Tarp, Finn - 2020

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 …

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Trust and Bribery : The Role of the Quid Pro Quo and the Link with Crime

Hunt, Jennifer - 2004

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 …

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The determinants of asset stripping: theory and evidence from the transition economies

Campos, Nauro F.; Giovannoni, Francesco - 2005

During the transition from plan to market, managers and politicians succeeded in maintaining control of large parts of the stock of socialist physical capital. Despite the obvious importance of this phenomenon, there have been no efforts to model, measure and investigate this process...

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Bureaucratic rents and life satisfaction

Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - 2006

correlates with perceptions of corruption. We find judicial independence to be of major relevance for a tamed bureaucracy. …

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Public sector pay and corruption: measuring bribery from micro data

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2006

This study is the first to provide a systematic measure of bribery using micro-level data on reported earnings, household spending and asset holdings. We use the compensating differential framework and the estimated sectoral gap in reported earnings and expenditures to identify the size of...

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Corruption and bureaucratic structure in a developing economy

Bennett, John; Estrin, Saul - 2006

We address the impact of corruption in a developing economy in the context of an empirically relevant hold-up problem …

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