Vaccination lottery

Duk Gyoo Kim

Economics Letters, 2021, vol. 208, issue C

Abstract: Ohio announced a Vax-a-Million Lottery in May 2021 to encourage people to get vaccinated. If people avoid vaccinations because they (1) worry about rare but critical side effects or (2) want to free-ride on herd immunity, the vaccination lottery may work better or worse than a lump-sum transfer to the contributors for herd immunity. I experimentally compare the effectiveness of the vaccination lottery with a lump-sum transfer. Overall, the vaccination lottery works better, and it especially incentivizes probability-weighting subjects.

Keywords: Vaccination incentives; Lottery; COVID-19; Laboratory experiments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2021.110059

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