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 …

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

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