While anti-corruption policies are generally believed to be crucial for investment and economic growth, we argue that such policies may backfire by impairing local officials’ incentives to grow the economy in a society featuring weak formal institutions and a state-led development model where...

Health, as an important human capital, is fundamental for bureaucrats to properly perform duties so as to deliver the function of the state. Based on a nationally representative longitudinal survey and using a difference-in-differences identification strategy, we study whether and how the recent...