In this paper, we examine the wage returns to an extra year of primary school using a policy reform in Egypt, which …

outcomes in Egypt between 2007 and 2018. We assess the effects not only on directly exporting industries but also on industries … Egypt as observed in other countries, as highlighted in the existing literature explaining the adverse effects of imports on … developing countries. Despite being more open to trade, trade-intensive industries in Egypt have not experienced a significant …

earning differences between genders in the case of Egypt. We use a cross-sectional micro-level dataset taken from the Egyptian …

earning differences between genders in the case of Egypt. We use a cross-sectional micro-level dataset taken from the Egyptian …

corruption. For this purpose, we designed and ran a lab experiment in Bonn (Germany) and Shanghai (China) with exactly the same …

We analyse policy makers' incentives to fight corruption under different institutional qualities. We find that 'public … officials', even when non-corrupt, significantly distort anti-corruption institutions by choosing a lower detection probability … legal equality can be considered worse in reducing corruption. Finally, corruption is significantly lower when the detection …

study corruption and the role of institutions and monitoring agencies when corruption takes place in a network structure. I … institutions and monitoring agencies to complement each other to prevent more effectively the act of corruption. I find that the … agencies can discourage corruption from the beginning …

It is by now generally agreed that government corruption is a serious impediment to economic growth. An intensive use …

We present controlled experimental evidence on how corruption affects the private provision of public goods. Subjects … subjects. We compare average contributions between two conditions with the same efficiency: a corruption condition, where an … administrator can expropriate part of contributions, and a control condition without corruption. Compared to the control condition …

How do corruption and the state apparatus interact, and how are they connected to the political and economic dimensions … effect of corruption on state power. Under general assumptions about fat-tailed risk, we show that, if fiscal capacity is … corruption is maintained at such a level that no erosion of state power is tolerated. Comparative statics shows the impacts of …