Crowdsourcing interventions to promote uptake of COVID-19 booster vaccines

Robert Böhm, Cornelia Betsch (), Yana Litovsky (), Philipp Sprengholz (), Noel T. Brewer (), Gretchen Chapman (), Julie Leask (), George Leowenstein (), Martha Scherzer, Cass R. Sunstein () and Michael Kirchler

Working Papers from Faculty of Economics and Statistics, Universität Innsbruck

Abstract: We apply a novel crowdsourcing approach to provide rapid insights on the most promising interventions to promote uptake of COVID-19 booster vaccines. In the first phase, international experts proposed 46 unique interventions. To reduce noise and potential bias, in the second phase, experts and representative general population samples from the UK and the US rated the proposed interventions on several criteria, including expected effectiveness and acceptability. Sanctions were evaluated as potentially most effective but least accepted. Interventions that received the most positive evaluations regarding both effectiveness and acceptability across evaluation groups were a day off after getting vaccinated, financial incentives, tax benefits, benefit campaigns, and mobile vaccination teams. The results provide useful insights to help governments, companies, and non-governmental institutions in their decision about which interventions to implement.

Keywords: booster vaccination; COVID-19; interventions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 83
Date: 2022-03
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-hea and nep-his
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www2.uibk.ac.at/downloads/c9821000/wpaper/2022-03.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:inn:wpaper:2022-03

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from Faculty of Economics and Statistics, Universität Innsbruck Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Janette Walde ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).