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In the discussions surrounding aid effectiveness, donors have increasingly demanded lower levels of corruption among their recipients. Development advocacy NGOs and officials in recipient countries have responded by insisting on increased transparency from donors about aid projects. We ask the next logical question: Does donor transparency affect recipient corruption levels? If more information is available about donor activities at the level of individual projects in given recipient countries, less space ought to remain for bureaucrats or contractors to divert or misuse the committed funds. We measure aid transparency by quantifying the breadth of project information provided by donors. We explore the relationship between our measure of donor transparency and corruption levels in recipient countries. Drawing information from AidData, we use propensity score matching to condition on the the possible …