Vaccination incentives are an important policy option to internalise externalities but are rarely used because we don’t know which incentives work for whom.
- Speaker
- Date
- Thursday 13 Apr 2023, 12:00 - 13:00
- Type
- Seminar
- Room
- M1-07
- Space
- Van der Goot Building
With a large-scale field experiment, we study four incentives for COVID-19 booster doses. Incentives boost uptake in the short and long-run: A guaranteed incentive increases uptake by 36%, more so than a lottery ticket (24%), a donation to a charitable organisation (12%), and even people choosing their own incentive (33%).
While the vaccine hesitant react less to incentives and the prosocial react more to the prosocial incentive, machine learning indicates that the guaranteed incentive for all is the dominant policy option.
Online attendance
Interested individuals should contact healtheconomics@ese.eur.nl if they would like to attend the seminar virtually.
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