Kpeli, Parrendah Adwoa; Schulze, Günther G.; Zakharov, … - 2024
We investigate the effect of elections on underreporting COVID-19 mortality, measured as the difference between excess … mortality and official statistics. Our identification strategy takes advantage of a natural experiment of the unanticipated … for 2020 we show that underreporting of COVID-19 mortality potentially undermines trust in government but only in …