Are U.S. sanctions off-target: Evidence from the Magnitsky act
研究了2017至2024年美国《马格尼茨基法案》下的制裁数据，发现这些制裁与受制裁者母国的人权侵犯弱相关，但与腐败感知不相关，可能因腐败难以衡量且存在遗漏变量。
• We compile data on US sanctions under the Magnitsky Act from 2017 to 2024. • These unilateral sanctions are weakly corelated with human rights abuses in the home countries of the sanctioned persons. • The Magnitsky sanctions are uncorrelated with perceptions of corruption. • The difference in results between the two types of sanctions may be driven by the difficulty of measuring corruption and by an omitted variable such as political instability. • Corruption is harder than human rights abuses to find evidence to prosecute. We compile data on US sanctions under the Magnitsky Act from 2017 to 2024 and find that such sanctions are weakly corelated with human rights abuses in the home countries of the sanctioned persons but are uncorrelated with perceptions of corruption.