Poverty has significant, detrimental, and long-ranging effects on child development (Walker
and others 2011). Programs and policies around the world have attempted to address …

This interdisciplinary Research Agenda contains state-of-the-art surveys of the field of
corruption and points towards an agenda for future research. This comprehensive work …

We examined the effects of Ecuador's Bono de Desarrollo Humano (BDH)–an unconditional
cash transfer program that was rolled-out using a randomized design–on health and …

This study analyzes the robustness of the link between quality of government and resilience
in a sample of 264 NUTS-2 regions of 28 European countries during the Great Recession …

We show a link between levels of mass education in 1870 and corruption levels in 2010 for
seventy-eight countries that remains strong when controlling for change in the level of …

We examined effects on child development of a group-based parenting support program
(Educación Inicial-EI) when combined with Mexico's conditional cash transfer (CCT) …

The influence of corruption convictions on government trust is complicated. On one hand,
they may reflect the severity of corruption in a jurisdiction. On the other hand, they might …

Why does corruption persist over long periods of time? Why is it so difficult to eliminate?
Suggesting that corruption is deeply rooted in the underlying social and historical political …

The existing literature in public administration and related disciplines tends to view
government corruption in terms of legal transgression, specific acts by public officials in …

With an increasing shift towards cash transfers and the proposition of Universal Basic
Income (UBI) as a policy alternative to replace the existing schemes, there has been a rising …