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Incentives can spur COVID-19 vaccination uptake

Heike Klüver, Macartan Humphreys, Johannes Giesecke, Felix Hartmann, Ferdinand Geissler – 2021

Recent evidence suggests that vaccination hesitancy is too high in many countries to sustainably contain COVID-19. Using a factorial survey experiment administered to 20,500 online respondents in Germany, we assess the effectiveness of three strategies to increase vaccine uptake, namely, providing freedoms, financial remuneration, and vaccination at local doctors. Our results suggest that all three strategies can increase vaccination uptake on the order of two to three percentage points (PP) overall and five PP among the undecided. The combined effects could be as high as 13 PP for this group. The returns from different strategies vary across age groups, however, with older cohorts more responsive to local access and younger cohorts most responsive to enhanced freedoms for vaccinated citizens.

Title
Incentives can spur COVID-19 vaccination uptake
Author
Heike Klüver, Macartan Humphreys, Johannes Giesecke, Felix Hartmann, Ferdinand Geissler
Publisher
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Sep 2021, 118 (36) e2109543118
Keywords
Peer-reviewed Journal
Date
2021-09
Identifier
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2109543118
Type
Text