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Enforcement and Public Corruption: Evidence from US States
Alt, James E.; Dreyer Lassen, David - 2010
We use high-quality panel data on corruption convictions, new panels of assistant U.S. attorneys and relative public … greater prosecutor resources result in more convictions for corruption, other things equal. We find more limited, recent … previously identified correlates and causes of corruption. By explicitly determining the allocation of prosecutorial resources …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320997
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The Ethics of Accepting a Bribe : An Empirical Study of Opinion in the USA, Brazil, Germany and China
Hernandez, Teresa - 2014
This paper presents the results of an empirical study of attitudes toward bribe taking in the largest economies on four continents – the USA, Brazil, Germany and China. The authors use the Human Beliefs and Values Survey data to examine several demographic variables, including gender, age,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055212
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Enforcement and Public Corruption : Evidence from US States
Alt, James E.; Lassen, David Dreyer - 2010
We use high-quality panel data on corruption convictions, new panels of assistant U.S. attorneys and relative public … greater prosecutor resources result in more convictions for corruption, other things equal. We find more limited, recent … previously identified correlates and causes of corruption. By explicitly determining the allocation of prosecutorial resources …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014191902
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Attitudes Toward Accepting a Bribe : A Longitudinal Study of the USA
Hernandez, Teresa; McGee, Robert W. - 2014
This study examined the changing attitudes in the United States on the ethics of accepting a bribe. The study used data gathered as part of the Human Values surveys for 1981 and 2006 in the United States. The study found that opposition to bribery declined over time. Several demographic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014037340
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COVID-19 and the 2020 US Presidential Election : Did the Pandemic Cost Donald Trump Reelection?
Noland, Marcus; Zhang, Yiwen Eva - 2021
By Election Day 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic had killed 234,244 Americans and caused the sharpest macroeconomic downturn in US history. Regression analysis shows that in a “no pandemic” counterfactual or a counterfactual in which the severity of the pandemic was mitigated by 30 percent,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013238675
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Bottlenecks for Evidence Adoption
Della Vigna, Stefano; Kim, Woojin; Linos, Elizabeth - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Governments increasingly use RCTs to test innovations before scale up. Yet, we know little about whether and how they incorporate the results of the experiments into policy-making. We follow up with 67 U.S. city departments which collectively ran 73 RCTs in collaboration with a national Nudge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334363
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Efficient and inefficient welfare states
Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre; Sangnier, Marc - 2011
This paper shows that cross country differences in the generosity and the quality of the welfare state are associated with differences in the trustworthiness of their citizens. We show that generous, transparent and efficient welfare states in Scandinavian countries are based on the civicness of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274587
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Efficient and inefficient welfare states
Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre; Sangnier, Marc - 2011
inefficient welfare states, as a function of the civicness of the citizens. -- welfare state ; trust ; civism ; corruption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009125029
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The impact of corruption on apprehension level of immigrants : a study of the United States immigration
Buzurukov, Bilol; Lee, Byeong-wan - 2014
This paper demonstrates the effect of country level corruption on illicit behavior of individuals in a foreign country … States from corruption-ridden countries are more likely to be apprehended than individuals from less corrupt countries are. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010425986
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Determinants of immigrant apprehensions : the case of U.S. immigration
Buzurukov, Bilol; Lee, Byeong-wan - 2015
techniques highlight the home country's social ills such as corruption, theft and homicide as key determinants. Also included in … host country. These results suggest that chronic socio-economic problems such as corruption, crimes, and poverty in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011382483