according to municipal population. …

student outcomes. We use data from the auditing of Brazil's local governments to construct objective measures of corruption …

This paper examines whether access to information enhances political accountability. Based upon the results of Brazil …

reports of an anti-corruption program in Brazil, to test whether the possibility of re-election affects the level of rents …

across Brazil's municipal governments. The analysis exploits discontinuities in wages across municipalities induced by a … constitutional amendment defining caps on the salary of local legislatures according to municipal population. Our main findings show …