least favorable to them and that are often associated with “grand corruption”: when corrupt actors are few and politically … Colombian School Meals Program. Nevertheless, informal audits and text messages to parents appear to curb corruption in the …

This paper examines whether countries with higher income have less corruption. Earlier studies, utilizing pure cross …-section regressions, establish a strong association between income and corruption but do not consider factors (presumably, long … for such factors, we show that the statistical association between income and corruption disappears. …

Previous research has found a negative effect of corruption on growth in the United States. However, some theory … suggests corruption might have a positive impact in places with dysfunctional political institutions. This paper investigates … whether the corruption-growth link is conditional on the extent of government involvement across U.S. states. Even though no …

In Is corruption influenced by economic growth? Are legal institutions such as the 'Right to Information Act (RTI) 2005 …' in India effective in curbing corruption? Using a novel panel dataset covering 20 Indian states and the periods 2005 and … 2008 we estimate the causal effects of economic growth and law on corruption. To tackle endogeneity concerns we use forest …

We study how natural resources can feed corruption and how this effect depends on the quality of the democratic … institutions. Our game-theoretic model predicts that natural resources lead to an increase in corruption if the quality of the … corruption depends on the quality of the democratic institutions. In particular, resource abundance is positively associated with …

We study how natural resources can feed corruption and how this effect depends on the quality of the democratic … institutions. Our game-theoretic model predicts that resource rents lead to an increase in corruption if the quality of the … countries to test this theoretical prediction. Our estimates confirm that the relationship between resource rents and corruption …

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

political accountability, either by encouraging sanctions upon non-compliant public agents or simply by reducing the …

, development and accountability with program outcomes. Our findings have important implications for both the design and …