Corruption and the costs of redistribution: Micro evidence from Indonesia

By Benjamin A. Olken. 2006

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Corruption, Institutions, and Economic Development (2009, background): “8See also Olken (2007) for an interesting eld study of corruption in road projects in Indonesia.”
Active and Passive Waste in Government Spending: Evidence from a Policy Experiment (2009, unknown): “Examples include Di Tella and Schargrodsky (2003), Reinikka and Svensson (2004), Olken (2006) (2007), Bertrand et al. (2007), Fisman et al. (2006), Fisman and Miguel (2006), Hyytinen et al. (2007), and Ferraz and Finan (2007a, 2007b).”
The power of information : evidence from a newspaper campaign to reduce capture (2004, background): “There is also a related literature on private corruption or collusion, for instance, McAfee, 1992; Porter and Zona, 1993; Duggan and Levitt, 2002. 3See also Djankov at al. (2003), who gather new data on media ownership and show that state ownership is correlated with both less media freedom and more”
Corruption in Developing Countries (2012, unknown): “As described above, Olken (2007) and Olken (2009) provide evidence for this type of efficiency loss in studies of perceptions vs.”
Corruption Perceptions vs. Corruption Reality (2009, methodology): “13A model developing this point explicitly can be found in the working paper version of this paper (Olken 2006b).”
Tangible Information and Citizen Empowerment: Identification Cards and Food Subsidy Programs in Indonesia (2017, methodology): “…that the cards reduce leakage by 1 kg (SE: 0.46) to 1.6 kg (SE: 0.55) per eligible household, which represents a 33 (SE: 15 percent) to 58 percent (SE: 27 percent) reduction in “lost” rice.25 25 We estimate the reduction in leakage using a “gap measurement”method, similarly to Olken (2006).”
Free Distribution or Cost-Sharing? Evidence from a Randomized Malaria Prevention Experiment (2008, background): “While user fees can be used to incentivize providers (World Bank, 2004), free distribution schemes have been shown to be plagued by corruption (in the form of diversion) among providers (Olken, 2006).”
Corruption Dynamics: The Golden Goose Effect (2013, unknown): “The main reason that micro-empirical studies of corruption are scarce is that corruption defies objective, consistent measurement across multiple settings (Innovative exceptions include Reinikka and Svensson (2004), Olken (2006), and Olken (2007)).”
The Power of Information in Public Services: Evidence from Education in Uganda (2011, background): “Contributions dealing with public corruption include Di Tella and Schargrodsky (2003), Hsieh and Moretti (2006), Olken (2006, 2007), Reinikka and Svensson (2004), and Svensson (2003).”