Does Oil Corrupt? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in West Africa

By Pedro C. Vicente. 2010

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Information Systems, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• The Politics of the Resource Curse: A Review (2020, neutral): “Vicente (2010) uses household surveys to compare changes in corruption in São Tomé and Príncipe, where oil had been discovered, to Cape Verde, where there were no discoveries; it finds a large increase in perceived corruption in São Tomé across many public services.”
• The resource curse revisited: governance and natural resources (2011, background): “In one of the few case studies, Vicente (2010) finds evidence that oil discoveries in Sao Tome and Principe led to more (perceived) corruption across a wide range of public activities and services, such as customs, elections (vote buying) and education.”
• Natural Resources: Curse or Blessing? (2011, background): “island Cape Verde which did not find oil, both with similar histories, culture and political institutions, and uses a unique dataset of the characteristics of all scholarship applicants during 1995-2005 and tailored household surveys (Vicente, 2010).”
• Do land revenue windfalls create a political resource curse? Evidence from China ☆ (2016, background): “…and Di Tella, 1999; Brollo et al., 2014; Caselli and Michaels, 2013; Mehlum et al., 2006; Robinson, et al., 2006; Ross, 1999, 2012; Svensson, 2000; Vicente, 2010).1 In particular, the one channel that has been identified al, the editor Gerard Padró i Bai, Ying Bai, Loren Brandt, fer, Pierre…”
• Testing the neocon agenda: Democracy in resource-rich societies (2009, background): “Vicente (2007) conducts a unique randomized analysis of vote-buying in the resource-rich country of Sao Tome, Principe, and finds that it is both widespread and effective in inducing voters to change allegiance.”
• The extractive industries and development: The resource curse at the micro, meso and macro levels (2015, background): “Vicente (2010) provides evidence of a subnational causal link between perceived corruption and oil discovery using household data from São Tomé and Prı́ncipe.”
• The illusory leader: natural resources, taxation and accountability (2013, background): “In the spirit of Vicente (2010), I propose to explain a speci…c channel through which the natural resource curse can operate.”
• •FDI from the South: The role of institutional distance and natural resources (2013, background): “Vicente (2010) document an increase in corruption of 10 percent after the announcements of the oil discovery in São Tomé.”
• Mining and Local Corruption in Africa (2017, methodology): “Currently, EA boundaries are available for South Africa and several regions of Sierra Leone.”
• The Resource Curse and its Potential Reversal (2013, background): “In cross-country settings Ades and Di Tella (1999) and Leite and Weidmann (1999) find that natural resources cause corruption, and in a recent paper Vicente (2008) finds evidence that oil discoveries in Sao Tomé and Principe lead to increases in the future value of office and therefore to an…”