of transparency in an incentivized experiment. Transparency leads to less promise breaking but also to less generous …

hires are relatively more qualified. Our results suggest a potential upside to patronage as campaign connections create new …

keeping can(not) be observed. We identify the causal effects of transparency in a laboratory experiment. Transparency leads to …

Why are the poor susceptible to clientelism, and what factors shield them from the influence of vote buying? We explore … channelled through informal networks. To test our theory, we build the informal, family-based network linkages between voters and …

effects of opacity in a laboratory experiment and find that opacity leads to more generous promises, but also to more promise …

makers are selected? Through an experiment with 472 groups of citizens in Burkina Faso, this paper compares elected and …