Recent literature highlights a paradox in corruption prevention messaging: instead of reducing tolerance for corruption …, such campaigns can inadvertently intensify it by priming the existence of corruption while failing to diminish citizens … combating corruption often backfire among individuals with preexisting negative perceptions of corruption, we posit that an …

An influential body of scholarship argues that corruption behaves as a selffulfilling prophecy. The idea of this work … is that levels of corruption emerge endogenously as a result of a society-wide coordination game in which ther individual … returns to corrupt behavior are a function of how disposed towards corruption the other members of society are perceived as …

accountability. We validate these predictions through a laboratory experiment, finding that corruption rates significantly rise when …While the literature extensively explores the structural enablers of corruption and its adverse effects on economic … performance, less is known about how the state of the economy influences corruption and political accountability. To address this …

-income countries. We implement a field experiment in the slums of two major Indian cities, where inadequate access to sanitation …

health behaviour campaigns and the persistence of misinformation. We implement a field experiment among a representative …

This paper uses willingness to pay (WTP) data from a field experiment in Hyderabad, India in 2013 to determine whether …

Widespread misconceptions can be critical, especially in times of crisis. Through a field experiment, we study how to … misinformation related to the COVID-19 pandemic in a hard-to-reach population - India’s slum residents. We randomly allocate …