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 …

drivers of the administration and delivery efficiency of coronavirus vaccines. For this purpose, we use data from the 50 US …, 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 …

to study how the design of the vaccine approval procedure affects public attitudes towards vaccination. Compared to an … Emergency Use Authorization, choosing the more thorough Accelerated Authorization approval procedure increases vaccination … key mediator of treatment effects on vaccination intentions …

) to evaluate the effects of vaccinations and variants on the epidemic and macroeconomic outlook. Vaccination plays the …, increasing the volatility of epidemic curves and worsening the macroeconomic outlook. If a more contagious variant emerges after … vaccination becomes available, therefore, the mitigating factor of the latter is at least partially offset by the former. A new …

We estimate the causal effects of a pandemic-era wage subsidy program in Canada on job losses and business closures … changes in the wage subsidy rate. The estimated net wage elasticity of employment was 0.11, implying a small aggregate … employment effect of the program and an estimated fiscal cost per job saved of nearly $200,000 per year. Subsidy payments caused …

speeds. Hence the race is on to beat the variants with the vaccines. Vaccination is very powerful at reducing virus … effective reproduction numbers by up to 90%. Meanwhile, many countries are rolling out vaccination programmes, but at varying … to raise GDP by about 4-5%. Quick vaccination would thus help limit the extent to which containment policies need to be …

We propose that crisis experience influences preferences towards COVID-19 vaccination and the speed of vaccination … during the initial phase when vaccines became available. We use macro and micro data to empirically investigate our theory …, indicating that the crisis history of countries is positively correlated with preferences towards COVID-19 vaccination …

increase vaccination and testing: “choice architecture” and monetary compensations. Choice architecture has the goal of … and are already in use by some organizations. Yet there is the concern that compensations may decrease vaccination if …, significantly increase COVID-19 test and vaccine demand. Yet, for vaccines, low compensations can backfire …

Millions of people refuse COVID-19 vaccination. Using original data from two surveys in nine OECD countries, we analyze … restrictions, more informed on traditional media, trusting scientists, and less concerned about vaccines’ side effects. We run a … vaccines’ side effects …

and availability of the coronavirus vaccines would have been better. Interestingly, new covid cases did not significantly … study is on determining whether a lack of health insurance significantly impacted vaccination propensities. If it is indeed … this aspect in the vaccine rollout by subsidizing and offering vaccines at a zero price. Our results show that the …