It’s a matter of trust : corruption scandals and political discontent in pandemic times
Date
2023?
Authors
Amaya, Elard
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Rossi, Martín A.
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Universidad de San Andrés. Departamento de Economía
Abstract
We study how corruption scandals lead to different forms of political discontent. We
take advantage of the fact that the largest corruption scandal during the pandemic in Peru
(the vacungate scandal) erupted during the fieldwork of a public opinion survey and use the
quasi-exogenous variation in exposure to the corruption scandal arising from differences in
interview dates across respondent. We find that the vacunagate scandal triggered a sizable
increase in the perception of corruption, reduced trust in both national and local governments,
and changed the perception of democracy as a suitable political system. These
short-run effects are significantly higher among those directly affected by this disease. We
also show that our results are robust to placebo test, changes in the bandwidth used, and
an alternative model specification.
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Fil: Amaya, Elard. Universidad de San Andrés. Departamento de Economía; Argentina.