Ohio announced a Vax-a-Million Lottery in May 2021 to encourage people vaccinated. If people may avoid vaccination … because (1) they worry about rare but critical side effects or (2) they want to free ride on herd immunity, the vaccination … effectiveness of the vaccination lottery over a lump-sum transfer. Overall, vaccination lottery works better, and it particularly …

, vaccination efficiency was lower in states with a centralized public health agency. States with a larger share of the elderly … performed using vaccination from a more recent period. Finally, a state’s legacy of corrupt activity, across two different time …