Municipal panel data.xlsx

Data of governors of 29 provinces and 251 prefecture-level cities in China process of data processing :(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.<br>