Journalist Murders and News about Corruption: Evidence from Mexico

• In Event: Corruption and Violence in Comparative Perspective

Brief Overview

Do deadly political attacks on the press silence or rally-up journalists? This paper investigates this question through a regression discontinuity design applied to original data collected through human and computer-based protocols in Mexico.

Authors

• Daniel Zizumbo-Colunga, CONAHCYT - Mexico's National Council of Humanities, Science, and Technology

• Maria del Pilar Fuerte, Centro GEO