In this essay, we examine and critique current proposals to offer monetary incentives for vaccination against COVID-19 … incentives lack in evidentiary support and argue that their implementation would lead to both short-term and long …-term detrimental effects. Monetary incentives can easily be instrumentalized in vaccine-questioning discourses to question the safety …

Policies offering material incentives for Covid-19 vaccination have been widely used around the world as countries … directly compare the effects of both monetary and gift-based incentives, both of which have been commonly employed in practice …. Results from a sample of 1,365 individuals suggest that incentives in the range of 8-125 USD backfire, inducing lower …