Explaining Vaccine Hesitancy: A Covid-19 Study of the United States

Rajeev Goel and James Saunoris

No 9658, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: Using recent data on the unvaccinated across U.S. states, this paper focuses on the determinants of vaccine hesitancy related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Results show that more prosperous states and states with more elderly and physicians have lower vaccine hesitancy. There was some evidence of the significance of race, but internet access and history of other contagious diseases failed to make a difference. States with centralized health systems and those with mask mandates generally had a lower percentage of unvaccinated populations. Finally, the presence of Democrats in state legislatures tended to result in lower vaccination hesitancies, ceteris paribus.

Keywords: Covid-19; vaccination; vaccine hesitancy; pandemic; government; elderly; race religion; politics; United States (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D11 I18 K42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-hea
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.cesifo.org/DocDL/cesifo1_wp9658.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: Explaining vaccine hesitancy: A COVID‐19 study of the United States (2023)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ces:ceswps:_9658

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Klaus Wohlrabe ().