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You Owe Me
Malmendier, Ulrike - 2012
In many cultures and industries gifts are given in order to influence the recipient, often at the expense of a third party. Examples include business gifts of firms and lobbyists. In a series of experiments, we show that, even without incentive or informational effects, small gifts strongly...
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Dishonesty and Selection into Public Service
Hanna, Rema - 2013
selection into government may contribute, in part, to corruption. They also emphasize that screening characteristics other than … 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 …
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Horizontal and Vertical Conflict : Experimental Evidence
Galiani, Sebastian - 2016
Two types of political conflicts of interest pervade many of the world's societies. A horizontal conflict of interest arises when different constituencies support different policies, while a vertical conflict of interest emerges when those in charge of running the government acquire and retain...
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Equilibrium Consequences of Corruption on Firms : Evidence from China's Anti-Corruption Campaign
Ding, Haoyuan; Fang, Hanming; Lin, Shu; Shi, Kang - 2022
We use China's recent anti-corruption campaign as a natural experiment to examine the (market expected) equilibrium … consequences of (anti-)corruption. We argue that the announcement of inspections of provincial governments by the Central … Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) on May 17, 2013 represents a significant departure of past norms of anti-corruption …
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Education for All? A Nationwide Audit Study of School Choice
Bergman, Peter; McFarlin Jr., Isaac - 2021
School choice may allow schools to impede access to students perceived as costlier to educate. To test this, we sent emails from fictitious parents to 6,452 charter schools and traditional public schools subject to school choice in 29 states and Washington, D.C. The fictitious parent asked...
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Efficiency-Morality Trade-Offs in Repugnant Transactions : A Choice Experiment
Elias, Julio - 2016
conducted an online choice experiment to characterize preferences for the morality and efficiency of payments to kidney donors …
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Conveniently Upset : Avoiding Altruism by Distorting Beliefs About Others
Di Tella, Rafael - 2011
In this paper we present the results from a "corruption game" (a dictator game modified so that the second player can …
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Embezzlement Versus Bribery
Fan, C. Simon - 2010
Corrupt officials can use their positions to enrich themselves in two ways. They can steal from the state budget--embezzling or misspending funds--or they can demand extra payments from citizens in return for services--bribery. In many circumstances, embezzlement is less distortionary than...
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Looking Beyond the Incumbent : The Effects of Exposing Corruption on Electoral Outcomes
Chong, Alberto - 2011
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 …
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The Control of Politicians in Normal Times and Times of Crisis : Wealth Accumulation by U.S. Congressmen, 1850-1880
Querubin, Pablo - 2011
We employ a regression discontinuity design based on close elections to estimate the rents from a seat in the U.S. congress between 1850-1880. Using census data, we compare wealth accumulation among those who won or lost their first race by a small margin. We find evidence of significant returns...
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