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Corruption and Legislature Size: Evidence from Brazil

Content Provider	Scilit
Author	Britto, Diogo Gerhard Castro De Fiorin, Stefano
Copyright Year	2016
Description	Journal: SSRN Electronic Journal This paper studies the role of council size on government corruption in Brazil. We leverage on the discontinuous relationship between the population size of municipalities and council size dictated by the law to implement a regression discontinuity design. We document a substantial positive causal effect of the number of city councilors on the incidence of corruption detected during federal audits. Results also show that having an extra councilor does not affect the size of the public budget, but influences its composition. It increases expenditures related to public housing and recreation, which we interpret as items related to clientelistic policies. Finally, we find a negative relationship between council size and its productivity: namely, the numbers of legislative bills proposed by councilor and approved are both lower in municipalities with larger councils.
Related Links	http://dipartimenti.unicatt.it/economia-finanza-def054.pdf https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm?abstractid=2859940
ISSN	10914358
e-ISSN	15565068
DOI	10.2139/ssrn.2859940
Journal	SSRN Electronic Journal
Language	English
Publisher	Elsevier BV
Publisher Date	2016-10-27
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Journal: SSRN Electronic Journal History and Philosophy of Science
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Psychiatry and Mental Health

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