Conditional cash lotteries increase COVID-19 vaccination rates

Andrew Barber and Jeremy West

Santa Cruz Department of Economics, Working Paper Series from Department of Economics, UC Santa Cruz

Abstract: Conditional cash lotteries (CCLs) provide people with opportunities to win monetary prizes only if they make specific behavioral changes. We conduct a case study of Ohio's Vax-A-Million initiative, the first CCL targeting COVID-19 vaccinations. Forming a synthetic control from other states, we find that Ohios incentive scheme increases the vaccinated share of state population by 1.5 percent (0.7 pp), costing sixty-eight dollars per person persuaded to vaccinate. We show this causes significant reductions in COVID-19, preventing at least one infection for every six vaccinations that the lottery had successfully encouraged. These findings are promising for similar CCL public health initiatives.

Keywords: Vaccine Related; Prevention; Immunization; Good Health and Well Being; COVID-19; COVID-19 Vaccines; Humans; Motivation; SARS-CoV-2; Vaccination; Behavioral economics; Financial incentives; Health policy; health policy; financial incentives; behavioral economics; Public Health and Health Services; Applied Economics; Econometrics; Health Policy & Services; Applied economics; Policy and administration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-01-01
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