Monitoring Corruption: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia

By Benjamin A. Olken. Journal of Political Economy, 2005

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Corruption, Institutions, and Economic Development (2009, background): “8 See also Olken (2007) for an interesting …eld study of corruption in road projects in”
The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Tropics (2012, positive): “Consistent with the existing literature on short run substitution between alternate forms of corruption (Olken 2007; Niehaus and Sukhtankar 2009), we find that rents from illegal logging and the potential for rents from oil and gas revenue sharing are substitutes in the short run.”
The Economist as Plumber (2017, background): “According to Pathak (2016), who reviewed his experience working in several cities and who modeled his conclusion on Klemperer’s:”
Welfare Analysis Meets Causal Inference (2020, neutral): “Thus, buried in the last section of an empirical paper that painstakingly estimates the impact of a policy, is an ad hoc analysis that compares the benefits to the cost, multiplied by a smudge factor of 1.3 (for example, Finkelstein and McKnight 2008; Olken 2007).”