The importance of Social Norms against Strategic Effects: The case of Covid-19 vaccine uptake

Marina Agranov, Matt Elliott and Pietro Ortoleva

Economics Letters, 2021, vol. 206, issue C

Abstract: We study how individual decisions are affected by those of other members of the society. We use the vaccine against COVID-19 as a case study and empirically estimate the magnitude of three key forces: Herding, Social Norms, and Free-riding. We find that Free-riding is dominated by the other two forces, and that Social Norms are a key driver of behavior. There is, however, substantial heterogeneity and systematic differences between people by demographics and their political preferences.

Keywords: Free-riding; Social norms; Experiment; Vaccine (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2021.109979

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