Vaccine Nationalism: Propaganda and China’s Media Coverage of Vaccines

• In Event: Media, Propaganda, and Nationalism in China

Brief Overview

How does vaccine efficacy information affect China's pro-regime propaganda? To address this question, we exploit information shocks and differing incentives across state-run and private media outlets based inside and external to the Chinese mainland.

Authors

• Patrick J Chester, New York University

• Victor Shih, University of California-San Diego