A Replication of “Weathering Corruption” ( Journal of Law and Economics, 2008)

IF 0.5 Q4 ECONOMICS

PUBLIC FINANCE REVIEW Pub Date : 2021-07-01 DOI:10.1177/10911421211028835

Adriana S. Cordis, J. Milyo

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Abstract

Previous research using data on convictions for corruption-related crimes from the Public Integrity Section (PIN) of the Department of Justice points to a positive correlation between the amount of corruption in a state and the amount of federal funds provided to the state for natural disaster relief. We take a closer look at the relationship between public corruption and disaster assistance and find little support for the hypothesis that the provision of federal disaster aid increases public corruption. Our analysis suggests instead that prior evidence of such a link arises from an unexplained correlation during the 1990s between disaster aid and convictions of postal employees for crimes such as stealing mail. Convictions for postal service crimes appear to account for a large fraction of the total federal convictions reported by PIN, which could have far-reaching implications, given that the PIN data have been used so extensively in the corruption literature.

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“风化腐败”的复制(法律与经济学杂志，2008)

先前的研究使用了司法部公共廉政科(Public Integrity Section，简称PIN)的腐败相关犯罪定罪数据，结果表明，一个州的腐败程度与联邦政府向该州提供的自然灾害救济资金数量呈正相关。我们仔细研究了公共腐败与灾难援助之间的关系，发现很少有证据支持联邦灾难援助会增加公共腐败的假设。相反，我们的分析表明，这种联系的先前证据来自于20世纪90年代灾难援助与邮政雇员因盗窃邮件等犯罪而被定罪之间的一种无法解释的相关性。邮政服务犯罪的定罪似乎占了PIN报告的联邦定罪总数的很大一部分，鉴于PIN数据在腐败文献中被广泛使用，这可能会产生深远的影响。

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