Education and vaccine hesitancy: Evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic

Yiannis Kountouris and Kyriaki Remoundou

Economics Letters, 2024, vol. 240, issue C

Abstract: We estimate the influence of education on vaccine hesitancy focusing on the Covid-19 pandemic. To address the bias arising from the endogeneity of education, we leverage the variation introduced by an extension in school-leaving age that took place in the UK in 1972 and employ a fuzzy regression discontinuity design. We find evidence that an additional year of schooling decreases Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy.

Keywords: Pro-social returns to education; Schooling and health behavior; Vaccine hesitancy; Covid-19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2024.111768

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