Replication data for: The Political Resource Curse

This paper studies the effect of additional government revenues
on political corruption and on the quality of politicians, both with
theory and data. The theory is based on a political agency model
with career concerns and endogenous entry of candidates. The data
refer to Brazil, where federal transfers to municipal governments
change exogenously at given population thresholds, allowing us to
implement a regression discontinuity design. The empirical evidence
shows that larger transfers increase observed corruption and reduce
the average education of candidates for mayor. These and other
more specific empirical results are in line with the predictions of the
theory.