Mixed Institutional Messages and Bayesian Updating under Uncertainty

• In Event: Citizens and the Bureaucracy

Brief Overview

We test the impact of the relative incongruity of public messaging among the President, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) during the COVID-19 crisis.

Authors

• William G. Resh, University of Southern California

• Tima Moldogaziev, The Pennsylvania State University