Beekman, Gonne; Bulte, Erwin H.; Nillesen, Eleonora E.M. - In: European Journal of Political Economy 30 (2013) C, pp. 70-79
We study how corruption affects economic activities of households in rural Liberia. A proxy of corruption of community leaders is obtained by directly monitoring the diversion of inputs associated with a development project. We measure quantities of these inputs twice; before and after the chief...