AEA RCT Registry

Field	Before	After
Trial Status	in_development	completed
Last Published	July 10, 2015 04:17 PM	January 22, 2020 03:44 AM
Study Withdrawn		No
Intervention Completion Date		August 15, 2015
Data Collection Complete		Yes
Final Sample Size: Number of Clusters (Unit of Randomization)		3004 individuals
Data Collection Completion Date		August 15, 2015
Public analysis plan	No	Yes

Field	Before	After
Paper Abstract		Corruption is considered to be an important driver of the resource curse in developing countries. Based on a large-scale field experiment in Tanzania, this paper studies whether expectations about future natural resource revenues shape expectations about corruption and the willingness to engage in corrupt behavior. We find some evidence that information about the discovery of natural gas in Tanzania causes people to expect more corruption in the future, but no evidence of a corresponding effect on peoples’ willingness to engage in corrupt activities.
Paper Citation		Cappelen, Alexander W., Odd-Helge Fjeldstad, Donald Mmari, Ingrid Hoem Sjursen, and Bertil Tungodden. "Understanding the resource curse: A large-scale experiment on corruption in Tanzania." CMI Working Paper (2018).
Paper URL		https://www.cmi.no/publications/6483-understanding-the-resource-curse

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