Decades of low inflation led to widespread use of dollar-denominated financial instruments with fixed interest rates and long maturities.…
In collaboration with the Government of Bihar, India, we conducted a large-scale
experiment to evaluate whether transparency in fiscal…
Money is essential for electoral politics yet its use and abuse often raises problems of graft, corruption, and cronyism. To throw new…
In many countries, polling day ends with disputes about ballot-box fraud, corruption, and flawed registers. Which claims are legitimate?…
Although in theory elections are supposed to prevent criminal or venal candidates from winning or retaining office, in practice voters…
A policy experiment in India suggests that placing female leaders in positions of power can dramatically change public attitudes.
What factors determine the nature of political opportunism in local government in South India? To answer this question, we study two types…
In this paper, we provide a new framework for analyzing corruption in public bureaucracies. The standard way to model corruption is as an…
The introduction of electoral gender quotas in diverse contexts around the globe has attracted a great deal of scholarly and political…
This article evaluates a body of recent work that uses field and natural experiments to answer the question of whether informed voters can…