This paper examines if money matters in education by looking at whether missing resources due to corruption affect … student outcomes. We use data from the auditing of Brazil's local governments to construct objective measures of corruption … of corruption across municipalities and controlling for student, school, and municipal characteristics, we find a …

This paper examines if money matters in education by looking at whether missing resources due to corruption affect … student outcomes. We use data from the auditing of Brazil's local governments to construct objective measures of corruption … of corruption across municipalities and controlling for student, school, and municipal characteristics, we find a …

to weak steering and supervision, lack of accountability, and heightened corruption risks (the sceptical view). Hitherto … paper addresses the competing views by studying on Sweden, a country with a dramatic growth in the number of MOCs since the … and a survey-based corruption measure for all 290 Swedish municipalities. Ultimately questioning the 'optimistic view …

-ups in a low-corruption setting: Sweden. We disaggregate the analysis to individual entrepreneurs, focus on corruption in …Does corruption affect the incentives for potential entrepreneurs to start businesses? The traditional view holds that … novel approach to this question, we combine a local government corruption index and individual-level register data on start …

This research adds to the literature on the nexus between government and corruption by examining further the influence … of government decentralization on corruption. Previous research has focused primarily on fiscal decentralization. We … both in terms of the scope of services offered and the size of the population served – has a bearing on corruption within …

corruption, privatization, and inter-municipal cooperation. A combination of theory and empirical evidence provides depth and …

of corruption. These findings suggest that the gains in market power derive from public demand shifts towards politically …