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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 …
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Habsburg affiliation increases current trust and reduces corruption in courts and police. Falsification tests of spuriously …
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The paper studies the effect of additional government revenues on political corruption and on the quality of … implications of the theory and identify the causal effect of larger federal transfers on political corruption and the observed … transfers increase political corruption and reduce the quality of candidates for mayor …
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entrepreneur. We focus on the size of the government, on freedom from corruption, and on 'market freedom' defined as a cluster of … extent of corruption. A cluster of institutional indicators representing 'market freedom' is only significant in some … specifications. Freedom from corruption is significantly related to entrepreneurial entry, especially when the richest countries are …
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In this paper we investigate the effect of family connections to politicians on individuals' labor market outcomes. We combine data for Italy over almost three decades from longitudinal social security records on a random sample of around 1 million private sector employees with the universe of...
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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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. Overall, our findings suggest that the proclivity to corruption of the former Communist party members has been transmitted … through family and thus sustained over time, contributing to corruption decades after the demise of the Socialist bloc …
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We analyze the provision of infrastructure by a foreign investor when the domestic bureaucracy is corrupt, but puts some weight on domestic welfare. The investor may pay a bribe in return for a higher provisional contract price. After the investment has been sunk, the bureaucracy may hold up the...
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particular be true for petty corruption where small amounts of bribes are involved and the detection rate is rather low. To … conducting a real effort task in every period.Independent of the treatments we already find high rates of corruption in very … observed in the corruption experiment. We explain our findings by a systematic underestimation of the overall probability of …
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In this paper we present and test a theory of how political corruption, found in many transition and emerging market … institutions that do not punish political corruption result in political connectedness of firms that in turn has a negative effect …
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