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Wendy Wong
Wendy Wong is a Fellow at the CRI Foundation working with USAID’s Development Innovation Ventures and a Postdoctoral Scholar (until August 2024) with the Development Innovation Lab at the University of Chicago’s Becker Friedman Institute for Economics.
She is dedicated to supporting policy, backed by scientific rigour, that aims to address poverty and inequality. Her research focuses on how policies can be designed to improve motivation and welfare in public and private sector settings.
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Expected or unexpected? Strategic communication around audits to maximise deterrence
Even with evidence on how audits can be designed to be more effective in deterring corruption by bureaucrats, in practice, budget constraints restrict governments from being able to conduct audits with the quality or intensity necessary to further deter corrupt behaviour. Analysing the case of social audits for MNREGA in Jharkhand, this article shows that, with the same audit resources, providing information to bureaucrats about their audit can be more effective in lowering misappropriated expenditures than unexpected audits.
