Fighting Corruption in Education: What Works and Who Benefits?

dc.contributor.author	Borcan, Oana
dc.contributor.author	Lindahl, Mikael
dc.contributor.author	Mitrut, Andreea
dc.date.accessioned	2015-02-16T13:22:10Z
dc.date.available	2015-02-16T13:22:10Z
dc.date.issued	2015-02
dc.identifier.issn	1403-2465
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2077/38272
dc.description	JEL: I21, I24, K42	sv
dc.description.abstract	We investigate the efficiency and distributional consequences of a corruptionfighting 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. We find that punishment coupled with monitoring was effective in reducing corruption. Estimating the heterogeneous impact for students of different ability, poverty status, and gender, we show that fighting corruption led to efficiency gains (ability predicts exam outcomes better) but also to a worrisome score gap increase between poor and non-poor students. Consequently, the poor students have reduced chances to enter an elite university.	sv
dc.format.extent	56	sv
dc.language.iso	eng	sv
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Working Papers in Economics	sv
dc.relation.ispartofseries	612	sv
dc.subject	corruption	sv
dc.subject	high-stakes exam	sv
dc.subject	bribes	sv
dc.subject	monitoring and punishment	sv
dc.title	Fighting Corruption in Education: What Works and Who Benefits?	sv
dc.type	Text	sv
dc.type.svep	report	sv
dc.contributor.organization	Dept. of Economics, University of Gothenburg	sv