Covid-19 vaccine uptake: the role of civic capital to overcome the free rider problem

Joaquín Paseyro Mayol and Tiziano Razzolini

Applied Economics Letters, 2024, vol. 31, issue 8, 750-756

Abstract: Vaccination rates are likely to reflect the expected benefits and drawbacks for individuals. As a larger share of the population gets vaccinated, individuals have more incentives to free ride and benefit from the positive externalities of a high vaccination rate, while not being affected by the potential harms of receiving vaccination. Using Covid-19 vaccination data at the municipality level in the Italian region of Lombardy, we show that communities with a higher level of civic capital were able to overcome this collective action problem. An indirect measure of the willingness to contribute to a public good (i.e. the share of residents paying the TV licence) proves to be particularly useful to predict the success of vaccination campaigns.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2022.2146647

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