The Real State: Inside the Congo's Traffic Police Agency

IRB approval was obtained from the University of Antwerp Ethical Advice Commission Social and Human Sciences SHW – 15 − 15 (May 5, 2015), Harvard University CUHS Protocol IRB 15 – 1973 (May 22, 2015) and MOD 15 – 1973 – 01 (June 5, 2015), University of California, Berkeley, CPHS (June 30th 2015), Protocol 2015 – 06 - 7686. The experiment is registered at AEA RCT registry, ID AEARCTR-0009691. The Ethics Appendix presents the background of the study (Section 1), the ethics of experimentation (Sections 2, 3, 4), the ethics of the data collection (Section 5), financial and reputational conflicts of interest (Section 6), concerns about intellectual freedom (Section 7 ), issues concerning feedback to relevant stakeholders from this study (Section 8), and foreseeable misuse of research results (Section 9). The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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