This paper aims to understand how corruption responds to financial incentives and, in particular, it is an attempt to identify the causal impact of a wage loss on the prevalence of corruption in the education sector. Specifically, we exploit the unexpected wage cut in May 2010 that affected all...

We investigate the efficiency and distributional consequences of a corruptionfighting initiative in Romania targeting the endemic fraud in a high-stakes high school exit exam, which introduced CCTV monitoring of the exam and credible punishment threats. We find that punishment coupled with...

A new Swedish dataset is used to examine the relationships between education, experience and earnings. We focus on four issues, namely (i) the determinants of starting salaries, (ii) the relationship between post-school-investment in human capital and wage growth, (iii) the determinants of...