Motivated by a novel stylized fact -- countries with isolated capital cities display worse quality of governance -- we provide a framework…
Book abstract: The Handbook of Organizational Economics surveys the major theories, evidence, and methods used in the field. It displays…
Africa's democratic transition is back in the spotlight. The concern is no longer the stranglehold of autocrats, but the hijacking of the…
We investigate how the link between individual schooling and political participation is aff ected by country characteristics. Using…
This book is a story of one village, Yantian, and its remarkable economic and social transformation. The village sits in the Pearl River…
Recent years have seen a remarkable expansion in economists' ability to measure corruption. This in turn has led to a new generation of…
Patronage systems in the public service are universally reviled as undemocratic and corrupt. Yet patronage was the prevailing method of…
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…