-targeted policies reduce mortality from 1.83% to 0.71% (thus, saving 2.7 million lives) relative to optimal uniform policies …

We study the relationship between trust and vaccination. We show theoretically that vaccination rates are higher in … find that countries perceived as less corrupt and more liberal experience higher vaccination rates. Furthermore, they are … less likely to adopt a mandatory vaccination policy. One unit of the Corruption Perception Index (scaled from 0 to 10) is …

Since vaccination is the decisive factor for controlling the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important to understand the … process to vaccination success. We identify a variety of factors playing a crucial role including the availability of vaccines … across countries, we find that initially authoritarian countries are slow in the vaccination process, while education is most …