student outcomes. We use data from the auditing of Brazil's local governments to construct objective measures of corruption …This paper examines if money matters in education by looking at whether missing resources due to corruption affect … of corruption across municipalities and controlling for student, school, and municipal characteristics, we find a …

Political institutions can affect corruption. We use audit reports from an anti-corruption program in Brazil to … construct new measures of political corruption in local governments and test whether electoral accountability affects the … corruption practices of incumbent politicians. We find significantly less corruption in municipalities where mayors can get …

enhancing political and judiciary accountability. We do so in the context of Brazil's anti-corruption program, which randomly …Political corruption is considered a major impediment to economic development, and yet it remains pervasive throughout … the world. This paper examines the extent to which government audits of public resources can reduce corruption by …

In this paper we present the results from a "corruption game" (a dictator game modified so that the second player can …

Does information about rampant political corruption increase electoral participation and the support for challenger … copious corruption not only decreases incumbent support in local elections in Mexico, but also decreases voter turnout …

Recent years have seen a remarkable expansion in economists' ability to measure corruption. This, in turn, has led to a … new generation of well-identified, microeconomic studies. We review the evidence on corruption in developing countries in … light of these recent advances, focusing on three questions: how much corruption is there, what are the efficiency …