Replication data for: Fighting Corruption in Education: What Works and Who Benefits?

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Project Citation:

Borcan, Oana, Lindahl, Mikael, and Mitrut, Andreea. Replication data for: Fighting Corruption in Education: What Works and Who Benefits? Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2017. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-13. https://doi.org/10.3886/E114632V1

Project Description

Summary: We investigate the distributional consequences of a corruption-fighting initiative in Romania targeting the endemic fraud in a high-stakes high school exit exam, which introduced CCTV monitoring of the exam and credible punishment threats for teachers and students. We find that the campaign was effective in reducing corruption and, in particular, that monitoring increased the effectiveness of the punishment threats. Estimating the heterogeneous impact for students of different poverty status we show that curbing corruption led to a worrisome score gap increase between poor and nonpoor students. Consequently, the poor students have reduced chances to enter an elite university.

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
      I21 Analysis of Education
      I24 Education and Inequality
      I28 Education: Government Policy
      I32 Measurement and Analysis of Poverty

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