Corruption Dynamics: The Golden Goose Effect

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Corruption in Developing Countries (2012, unknown): “0.3 - 1.9 percent of GDP Niehaus and Sukhtankar (2010) India Wages on the National Rural Employee Guarantee Scheme Estimate by subtraction: Compare officially paid wages to wages as reported by a survey Rs. 236 stolen per actual day paid, where an actual day paid is approx.”
Building State Capacity: Evidence from Biometric Smartcards in India (2016, background): “NREGS is the largest workfare program in the world (targeting 800 million rural residents in India), but has well-known implementation issues including problems with the payment process and leakage (Dutta et al., 2012; Niehaus and Sukhtankar, 2013a,b).”
Tangible Information and Citizen Empowerment: Identification Cards and Food Subsidy Programs in Indonesia (2017, background): “Niehaus and Sukhtankar (2013) describe these “golden goose” effects in the context of changes in citizen benefits in India’s workfare program, NREGA.”
The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Tropics (2012, unknown): “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.”