Replication data for: Government Advertising and Media Coverage of Corruption Scandals

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Rafael Di Tella; Ignacio Franceschelli

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Di Tella, Rafael, and Franceschelli, Ignacio. Replication data for: Government Advertising and Media Coverage of Corruption Scandals. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2011. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113797V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary We construct measures of the extent to which the four main newspapers in Argentina report government corruption on their front page during the period 1998-2007 and correlate them with government advertising. The correlation is negative. The size is considerable—a one standard deviation increase in monthly government advertising is associated with a reduction in the coverage of the government's corruption scandals of 0.23 of a front page per month, or 18 percent of a standard deviation in coverage. The results are robust to the inclusion of newspaper, month, newspaper Χ president and individual-corruption scandal fixed effects, as well as newspaper Χ president specific time trends. (JEL D72, K42, L82, M37, O17)

Scope of Project

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      D72 Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
      K42 Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
      L82 Entertainment; Media
      M37 Advertising
      O17 Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements


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