vigilante justice, as represented by peer-to-peer punishment, to delegated policing, as represented by the "hired gun" mechanism …

We analyze the organization of corruption in a state agency. The dual mandate of the Democratic Republic of the Congo … profits and distortions beyond those that would be made possible via corruption by individual state officials …

experiment with over 28,000 welfare program administrators and over 19,000 beneficiaries in Indonesia to elicit the 'marginal … disutility from corruption,' i.e., the trade-between more generous social assistance and losses due to corruption and fraud …. Merely mentioning corruption reduced perceived program success, equivalent to distributing more than 20 percent less aid …

arise when monitoring corruption is difficult relative to monitoring the provision of public services, and politically …-important groups of citizens do not bear the full cost of corruption. The existence of such systems can distort the effective incidence … of the tax burden, reduce the incentives of government to fight corruption, and legitimize bribe-taking …

Corruption is a widespread phenomenon in many developing and transitional economies. China is a country in profile both … in the prevalence of corruption, and in its attempts to root out corruption. The recent anti-corruption campaign in China … also provides unusual amount of data to study the causes and consequences of corruption, which will have implications for …

cost of corruption, in the context of public transport. We first document that police stops can lead to long bribe … officers. We then examine a field experiment that re-routes drivers in randomly selected days to lines on which they do not …

We conduct parallel surveys of legislators and citizens in three countries to study their tolerance for corruption. In …-offs between, for example, probity and efficiency: both perceive corruption as undesirable but prevalent. These novel descriptive … data further reveal that legislators generally have accurate beliefs about public opinion on corruption and understand its …

test of the theory implements a laboratory experiment, where important features of the theory can be exogenously imposed …. We complement our lab experiment with a field experiment, where we rely on biological models complemented by economic …, our study showcases the benefits of combining data from both lab and field experiments to deepen our understanding of the …