Roberta Gatti

TL;DR: Fisman and Gatti as mentioned in this paper examined the relationship between decentralization of government activities and the extent of rent extraction by private parties, and found that the origin of a country's legal system performs extremely well as an instrument for decentralization.

TL;DR: The relationship between decentralization of government activities and the extent of rent extraction by private parties is examined empirically by looking at the cross-country relationship between fiscal decentralization and corruption as measured by a number of different indices.

TL;DR: The authors found that the greater the representation of women in parliament, the lower the level of corruption in a large cross-section of countries; the result is robust to a wide range of specifications.

TL;DR: This paper examined the relationship between household income shocks and child labor and investigated the extent to which transitory income shocks lead to increases in child labor, and whether household asset holdings mitigate the effects of these shocks.

TL;DR: In this paper, the mismatch between revenue generation and expenditure in U.S. states was examined empirically, and the authors found that larger federal transfers are associated with higher rates of conviction for abuse of public office, supporting the theory that soft-budget constraints created by federal transfers were potentially problematic.