Replication Data for: COVID-19 Data Reliability and Institutions

In this paper, we investigate the role played by institutions in providing useful and reliable information during the COVID-19 pandemic. We use the conformity to Benford's Law as a measure of reliability of COVID-19 number of cases at the country level. Then, we test the impact of strong institutions on reliability using OLS and IV regressions. Our results indicate that a strong institutional environment increases data reliability of COVID-19 confirmed cases.