While there is substantial corruption in developing countries, the costs imposed by corruption on individuals and … households are little understood. This study examines the relationship between exposure to local corruption and mental health, as …-to-day petty corruption is positively associated with psychological distress. Our results are robust to a variety of specification …

panel data set assembled from official social audit reports, we study the impact of these audits on MGNREGA delivery in … Andhra Pradesh, India. Within a dynamic conceptual framework where beneficiaries, auditors and transgressors interact and … are laid out and credibly enforced. Our findings suggest a changing anatomy of corruption, where transgressors keep one …

We use data for 436 rural districts from the 2001 Census of India to examine whether different aspects of social … divisions help explain the wide variation in access to tap water across rural India. Studies linking social fragmentation to … for access to tap water in rural India. Communities that are heterogeneous in terms of caste (within the majority Hindu …

India. Using primary survey data, we find more program inefficiencies and leakages in village councils reserved for women …

India is a country characterized by a huge informal sector. At the same time, it is a country where the extent of … corruption in every sector is remarkably high. Stifling bureaucratic interference and corruption at every stage of economic … governance allowing substantial corruption in the system. Based on a study of 20 Indian states, we empirically show that higher …

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 …

corruption perceptions, and preferences for redistribution in Latin America. Our empirical study is guided by a theoretical model … which introduces taxes into Foellmi and Oechslin's (2007) general equilibrium model of non-collusive corruption. In this … model perceived corruption influences people's preferences for redistribution through two channels. On the one hand it …