I investigate the relation between corruption and the composition of state government spending in the United States …. The analysis reveals that the United States is not immune to the adverse effects of corruption documented in cross …-country studies. Corruption lowers the share of state government spending devoted to higher education, and raises the share of …

Previous research using data on convictions for corruption-related crimes from the Public Integrity Section (PIN) of … the Department of Justice points to a positive correlation between the amount of corruption in a state and the amount of … corruption and disaster assistance using more detailed data on corruption convictions for an expanded time period. Our analysis …

A growing empirical literature examines the causes and consequences of public corruption in the United States; however …, most of these studies measure corruption using data on federal convictions that is of dubious quality and provenance. We … corruption prosecutions and convictions by type of state official and even by lead charge. We employ these data to construct a …

This paper investigates the relation between public corruption and the composition of state government expenditures in … the United States. The results suggest that the United States is not immune to the adverse effects of corruption that have … been documented using country-level expenditure data. In particular, I find that corruption reduces the share of spending …

We study the effect of links between politicians on corruption under prevailing clientelism. Connections between … oversight. The findings favor a venal view of corruption, where politicians divert resources for personal gain rather than to …

and corruption not only remain, they have become the primary development challenges of the 21st century. In particular …

greater economic influence of a nation Cameron (1978). Corruption is found to be influential in explaining the public …

This paper considers the effects of corruption and government spending on economic growth. It starts from an endogenous … growth model and extends it to account for the detrimental effects of corruption on the potentially productive components of … and the results show, first, that the growth rate is strongly influenced by the interaction between corruption and …

This paper considers the effects of corruption and government spending on economic growth. It starts from an endogenous … growth model and extends it to account for the detrimental effects of corruption on the potentially productive components of … and the results show, first, that the growth rate is strongly influenced by the interaction between corruption and …