This paper examines if money matters in education by looking at whether missing resources due to corruption affect … student outcomes. We use data from the auditing of Brazil's local governments to construct objective measures of corruption … of corruption across municipalities and controlling for student, school, and municipal characteristics, we find a …

corruption. We exploit the extension of one such policy, the Domestic Stability Pact (DSP), to Italian municipalities with less … extension of the DSP led to a substantial decrease in recorded corruption rates. This effect emerges only in areas in which the … naturally prone to corruptive phenomena. We also show that i) the reduction in corruption is linked to accountability incentives …

corruption. We exploit the extension of one such policy, the Domestic Stability Pact (DSP), to Italian municipalities with less … extension of the DSP led to a substantial decrease in recorded corruption rates. This effect emerges only in areas in which the … naturally prone to corruptive phenomena. We also show that i) the reduction in corruption is linked to accountability incentives …

Does political corruption erode civic values and foster dishonest behaviour? This paper tests this hypothesis – using … Mexico as an example – by combining data on local government corruption and cheating in school tests. Results show that …, following revelations of corruption by local officials, cheating in cognitive tests by secondary school students increases …

Does political corruption erode civic values and foster dishonest behaviour? I test this hypothesis in the context of … Mexico, by combining data on local government corruption and cheating in school tests. I find that, following revelations of … corruption by local officials, cheating in cognitive tests by secondary school students increases significantly. The effect is …

We study how policies limiting the spending capacity of local governments may reduce corruption. We exploit the … both recorded corruption rates and corruption charges per euro spent. This effect emerges only in areas in which the DSP … put a binding cap on municipal capital expenditures. The reduction in corruption is linked to accountability incentives as …

This paper studies the role of council size on government corruption in Brazil. We leverage on the discontinuous … corruption detected during federal audits. Results also show that having an extra councilor does not affect the size of the …

This paper studies the role of council size on government corruption in Brazil. We leverage on the discontinuous … corruption detected during federal audits. Results also show that having an extra councilor does not affect the size of the …

of corruption. These findings suggest that the gains in market power derive from public demand shifts towards politically …

increase the green multiplier. Interestingly, corruption positively affects all multipliers. I show that the effect of … corruption can be explained by its role in easing bureaucratic and regulatory burdens. These results suggest that taking national …