Peoples' willingness to vaccinate is critical to combating the COVID-19 pandemic. We devise a representative experiment … 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 …

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 …

Millions of people refuse COVID-19 vaccination. Using original data from two surveys in nine OECD countries, we analyze … survey experiment with informational messages. In EU countries, a message about protecting health largely increases …

result in lower vaccination hesitancies, ceteris paribus. …

) to evaluate the effects of vaccinations and variants on the epidemic and macroeconomic outlook. Vaccination plays the … vaccination becomes available, therefore, the mitigating factor of the latter is at least partially offset by the former. A new …

Traditional economic models of vaccination behavior simply assume that agents free-ride on the vaccination decisions of … conjectural variation model, to explain how a positive peer effect regarding vaccination behavior arises. We conduct two empirical … studies using Japanese data in these models. The first empirical analysis, using a data set on the vaccination behavior of …

We investigate the effect of interpersonal and institutional trust on COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy. We ask whether … interpersonal and institutional trust predict COVID-19 vaccination delay and refusal. We use an unprecedently rich and … correlation with vaccine hesitancy. As trust increases, vaccination hesitancy decreases and so does the time it takes people to …

differences across counties with low- and high vaccination rates. Policy implications are discussed. …

Social norms affect a wide range of behaviors in society. We conducted a representative experiment to study how beliefs … about the existing social norm regarding COVID-19 vaccination affect vaccination readiness. Beliefs about the norm are on … correcting biased beliefs, thereby reducing belief dispersion. The information has no effect on vaccination readiness on average …

study is on determining whether a lack of health insurance significantly impacted vaccination propensities. If it is indeed … the vaccination propensities of the unvaccinated are noteworthy, especially significant given the fact the COVID-19 … impact decisions to fully vaccinate, while greater prosperity made full vaccination more likely. We did not find robust …