corruption. Students who demonstrate lower levels of prosocial preferences in the laboratory games are also more likely to prefer … corruption do not systematically predict job preferences. We find that a screening process that chooses the highest ability … applicants would not alter the average propensity for corruption among the applicant pool. Our findings imply that differential …

Transparency is usually thought to reduce favoritism and corruption by facilitating monitoring by outsiders, but there … aggregates favoritism (nationalistic bias from own-country judges) and corruption (vote trading), actually increased slightly …

care fraud. In this paper, we consider the diffusion of potentially fraudulent Medicare home health care billing in the … anti-fraud "strike force" offices. We hypothesize that patient-sharing across home health care agencies provides a …

combatting health care fraud. Between 2003 and 2017, Medicare spent $7.7 billion on 37.5 million regularly scheduled, non … more cost-effective than ex post ligation for preventing health care fraud …

Healthcare fraud imposes a sizable cost on U.S. public healthcare budgets and distorts health care provision. We … examine the economics of health care fraud and enforcement using theory and data and connect to a growing literature on the … topic. We first offer a new economic definition of health care fraud that captures and connects the wide range of activities …

characteristics, and state/year-level anti-fraud enforcement efforts. We show that increased enforcement leads certain types of types …

This paper develops a new approach to detecting electoral fraud. Our context involves repeaters, individuals voting in … the secret ballot itself reducing voter fraud. The pattern is also driven by smaller population counties, consistent with …