Di Tella, RafaelFranceschelli, Ignacio2016-07-262011Di Tella, Rafael, and Ignacio Franceschelli. "Government Advertising and Media Coverage of Corruption Scandals." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 3, no. 4 (October 2011): 119–151.1945-7782http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:27745483We construct measures of the extent to which the four main newspapers in Argentina report government corruption in their front page during the period 1998-2007 and correlate them with government advertising. The correlation is negative. The size is considerable: a one standard deviation increase in monthly government advertising is associated with a reduction in the coverage of the government's corruption scandals by 0.23 of a front page per month, or 18% of a standard deviation in coverage. The results are robust to the inclusion of newspaper, month, newspaper president, and individual-corruption scandal fixed effects as well as newspaper-president specific time trends.en-UScrime and corruptionadvertisinggovernment and politicsnewspapersmediaJournal Article2016-07-2610.1257/app.3.4.119