Interpreting and Validating the Political Logic of Officials’ Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic

The time range of the data used in this paper is from 1 January 2020 to 5 May 2020. The specific process of data processing is as follows: (i) Collecting data on epidemic cases from 31 provinces and more than 300 prefectural-level cities in China. (ii) Screening and collating data on the CVs of officials through the portals of governments as well as search platforms such as Baidu. (iii) By matching the epidemic cases data, officials’ data, and control variables data of each province and municipality to finally form a panel data format of 29 provinces and 251 prefecture-level cities. The 29 provinces exclude Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan in China, as well as Tibet and Hubei provinces.