Enforcement and Public Corruption: Evidence from US States

We use high-quality panel data on corruption convictions, new panels of assistant U.S. attorneys and relative public sector wages, and careful attention to the consequences of modeling endogeneity to estimate the impact of prosecutorial resources on criminal convictions of those who undertake corrup...

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1. VerfasserIn: David Dreyer Lassen (VerfasserIn)
Beteiligte: James E. Alt
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Sprache:Englisch
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