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 …

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 …

arise as key statistics to characterize social welfare. We apply this framework to a randomized field experiment on … simulations quantify the optimal take-up incentives that exploit observed and unobserved heterogeneity in selection and welfare …

conducted an online choice experiment to characterize preferences for the morality and efficiency of payments to kidney donors …

Adequate wages are an important tool to shield public officials from special interests and corruption. But what is the … significantly more likely to prevent corruption in public procurement, a key area of illicit interactions between the state and …' behavior rather than improved selection. These findings reveal how -- in the presence of criminal groups -- higher wages may …

the recent anti-corruption campaign. An analysis of a separate cross-city dataset corroborates the key conclusion …