Isolated Capital Cities, Accountability and Corruption: Evidence from US States
We show that isolated capital cities are robustly associated with greater levels of corruption across US states. In particular, this is the case when we use the variation induced by the exogenous location of a state’s centroid to instrument for the concentration of population around the capital city...
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2012
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