The paper investigates the effects of checks and balances on corruption. Within a presidential system, effective … government and elected, rather than appointed, state supreme court judges are associated with lower corruption and, furthermore …

High-quality data on state-level inequality and incomes, panel data on corruption convictions, and careful attention to … institutional environment the corruptible employee's or official's decision to engage in corruption is affected by relative wages … of inequality, which indicate diminished prospects facing those convicted of corruption. In US states over 25 years we …

High-quality data on state-level inequality and incomes, panel data on corruption convictions, and careful attention to … institutional environment the corruptible employee’s or official’s decision to engage in corruption is affected by relative wages … of inequality, which indicate diminished prospects facing those convicted of corruption. In US states over 25 years we …

We show that isolated capital cities are robustly associated with greater levels of corruption across US states. In … helps explain the connection between isolated capitals and corruption. In addition, we provide some evidence that this …

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 …

High-quality data on state-level inequality and incomes, panel data on corruption convictions, and careful attention to … institutional environment the corruptible employee's or official's decision to engage in corruption is affected by relative wages … of inequality, which indicate diminished prospects facing those convicted of corruption. In US states over 25 years we …

specific type of abuse of power by government officials: corruption in office. Specifically, I fit negative binomial … corruption per capita than states with the opposite characteristics …

Using state level data on corruption convictions from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Public Integrity Section (PIN … corruption convictions tend to be higher in politically important states. However, this effect decreases in magnitude and becomes … statistically insignificant when states have a governor of the same political party as the president. Thus, corruption convictions …