TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Borcan, Oana
AU  - Lindahl, Mikael
AU  - Mitrut, Andreea
        TI  - Fighting Corruption in Education: What Works and Who Benefits?
        PY  - 2015/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 9561
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp9561
        AB  - 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 non-poor students. Consequently, the poor students have reduced chances to enter an elite university.
        KW  - bribes
KW  - high-stakes exam
KW  - corruption
KW  - monitoring and punishment
        ER  -