Does Combating Corruption Reduce Clientelism?

We thank Juliana Lins, Bárbara Magalhães, and Vânya Tsutsui for assistance during fieldwork; Márcio Thomé and the BemFam team for survey work; Tadeu Assad and the IABS team for project management. We are grateful for excellent research assistance by Joaquin Fuenzalida Bello, Fikremariam Gedefaw, Isabella Giancola-Schieda, Lisa Stockley, and Austin Zeyuan Zheng. We thank Horacio Larreguy, Fred Finan, Ernesto Dal Bó and numerous seminar participants for insightful comments. IRB approval was awarded by Brazil’s Comissão Nacional de Ética em Pesquisa (Protocol 465/2011), the University of Toronto (Protocol 27432), and Innovations for Poverty Action (Protocol 525.11May-006). This project would not have been possible without financial support from AECID and the leadership of Pedro Flores Urbano. We also gratefully acknowledge funding from CAF, the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, the Canada Research Chairs Program, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) under Insight Grants 488989 and 493141, and the Ontario Work-Study program. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

• May 17, 2023