COVID-19 vaccination and household savings: An economic recovery channel
He Ren and
Yi Zheng
Finance Research Letters, 2023, vol. 54, issue C
Abstract:
The COVID-19 pandemic increased people’s propensity for precautionary savings in response to economic recession (e.g., Mody et al., 2012; Gropp and McShane, 2021; Levine et al., 2021). However, as the relevant vaccine roll-out continues, it mitigates people’s concerns and boosts the macroeconomy, which leads to significant declines in household precautionary saving motives. Consistent with this expectation, using U.S. county-level vaccination, deposit, economic, and demographic data, we show that there is a significant negative relationship between COVID-19 vaccination and household savings. We attribute this negative relationship to an economic recovery channel because our findings also suggest that the vaccination has a strong negative impact on the unemployment rate and results in increases in consumer spending. Overall, our study adds to an emerging strand of literature on how COVID-19 vaccination affects households’ financial behaviors.
Keywords: Coronavirus; Vaccines; Household finance; Household savings; Deposit growth; Unemployment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D14 G18 G21 G51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2023.103711
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