We show that isolated capital cities are robustly associated with greater levels of corruption across US states, in …

the informal sector is moving from rural to urban locations. While the secular trend for India's manufacturing …

corruption. Students who demonstrate lower levels of prosocial preferences in the laboratory games are also more likely to prefer … corruption do not systematically predict job preferences. We find that a screening process that chooses the highest ability … applicants would not alter the average propensity for corruption among the applicant pool. Our findings imply that differential …

? The core design challenge is managing the tradeoff between Type-II errors of inclusion (including corruption) against Type … the delivery of India's largest social protection program (subsidized food) in the state of Jharkhand. By itself … results highlight that attempts to reduce corruption in welfare programs by making ID requirements more stringent can also …

Evidence on the implementation of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act suggests that the available work is … administrative costs and local corruption. Administrative reforms by the center can have perverse effects. Policy implications are …

facilitating political capture and corruption …