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those without. Using the recent anti-corruption campaign in China as a quasi-experiment, we investigate how endeavors for … counter-corruption affect inequality and potential cronyism in bureaucratic employment through inter-generational transmission … more than 5 percentage points. Moreover, we explore potential mechanisms through which anti-corruption efforts have …
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Understanding corruption is at the heart of treating the dysfunctionality of many countries’ public sectors. Yet, most … corruption research suffers from one common problem: There is no “objective” measure of public-sector corruption for a cross …-section of countries. Most studies on the determinants or the effects of corruption rely on indicators of corruption perception …
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Social trust is a crucial ingredient for successful collective action. What causes social trust to develop, however, remains poorly understood. The quality of political institutions has been proposed as a candidate driver and has been shown to correlate with social trust. We show that this...
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Social trust is a crucial ingredient for successful collective action. What causes social trust to develop, however, remains poorly understood. The quality of political institutions has been proposed as a candidate driver and has been shown to correlate with social trust. We show that this...
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A growing literature relies on natural experiments to establish causal effects in macroeconomics. In diverse applications, natural experiments have been used to verify underlying assumptions of conventional models, quantify specific model parameters, and identify mechanisms that have major...
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