Has Covid Vaccination Success Increased the Marginal Willingness to Pay Taxes?

Jose M. Duran-Cabre, Alejandro Esteller-Moré (), Leonzio Rizzo () and Riccardo Secomandi ()
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Alejandro Esteller-Moré: Universitat de Barcelona & IEB
Leonzio Rizzo: Università degli Studi di Ferrara & IEB
Riccardo Secomandi: University of Ferrara

No 2023/08, Working Papers from Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB)

Abstract: The Covid-19 vaccination campaign can be regarded as a public-sector success story. Given the shock caused by the pandemic, the visible and successful response of the public authorities regarding vaccination might have elicited an increase in the public’s trust. We test whether the vaccination process has increased the marginal willingness to pay taxes (MWTP). Taking advantage of the different paths of vaccination in Spain, we pursue a difference-in-difference empirical strategy, complemented by an event study, to infer causality running from vaccination to MWTP. We find an increase in MWTP caused by the good governance related to vaccination.

Keywords: Survey data; marginal willingness to pay; DiD; event study; Covid-19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D72 H20 H26 H30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pages
Date: 2023
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