ArticleJournal of public economics2021
What motivates non-democratic leadership: Evidence from COVID-19 reopenings in China.
Article in Journal of public economics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Elections and COVID-19 benefit payments.Journal of Asian economics · 2023Article
- The micro-economic effects of COVID-19 containment measures: A simple model and evidence from China.PloS one · 2023Article
- International taxation sentiment and COVID-19 crisis.Research in international business and finance · 2022Article
- How online food delivery platforms contributed to the resilience of the urban food system in China during the COVID-19 pandemic.Global food security · 2022Article
- Career incentives of local leaders and crisis response: A case study of COVID-19 lockdowns in China.European journal of political economy · 2022Article
- Cryptocurrency price discrepancies under uncertainty: Evidence from COVID-19 and lockdown nexus.Journal of international money and finance · 2022Article
- Effects of local government social media use on citizen compliance during a crisis: Evidence from the COVID-19 crisis in China.Public administration · 2022Article
- Optimizing Decision-Making Processes in Times of COVID-19: Using Reflexivity to Counteract Information-Processing Failures.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Review
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Abstract
We examine Chinese cities' COVID-19 reopening plans as a window into governments' economic and social priorities. We measure reopenings based on official government news announcements, and show that these are predicted by citizen discontent, as captured by Baidu searches for terms such as "unemployment" and "protest" in the prior week. The effects are particularly strong early in the epidemic, indicating a priority on initiating economic recovery as early as possible. These results indicate that even a non-democratic government may respond to citizen concerns, possibly to minimize dissent.
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