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proposition that greater transparency and voice lowers corruption even in highly hierarchical and unequal societies …
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This paper presents a randomized field experiment on reducing corruption in over 600 Indonesian village road projects … traditional top-down monitoring can play an important role in reducing corruption, even in a highly corrupt environment …
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Effective policy-making requires that voters avoid electing malfeasant politicians. However, as our simple learning model emphasizing voters' prior beliefs and updating highlights, informing voters of incumbent malfeasance may not entail sanctioning. Specifically, electoral punishment of...
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This paper uses a randomized field experiment to examine several approaches to reducing corruption. I measure missing … suggest that traditional top-down monitoring can play an important role in reducing corruption, even in a highly corrupt …
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A number of studies document an in-group bias in social dilemma situations. While group structure and dynamics are important in shaping in-group favouritism, less attention has been paid to individual characteristics affecting favouritism. Using data from dictator games conducted among 523...
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The dissertation contributes to three important issues in development economics, i.e. corruption behavior, the … methods. Chapter 1 examines corruption (anti-social behavior) across Sub-Saharan Africa. In this chapter, we consider the … micro-economic determinants of corruption behavior and provides implications for institutions. In addition, the 2004 World …
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