COVID-19 Vaccination Mandates and Vaccine Uptake

Alexander Karaivanov, Dongwoo Kim, Shih En Lu () and Hitoshi Shigeoka
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Shih En Lu: Simon Fraser University

No 14946, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We evaluate the impact of government mandated proof of vaccination requirements for access to public venues and non-essential businesses on COVID-19 vaccine uptake. We find that the announcement of a mandate is associated with a rapid and significant surge in new vaccinations (more than 60% increase in weekly first doses) using the variation in the timing of these measures across Canadian provinces in a differencein-differences approach. Time-series analysis for each province and for France, Italy and Germany corroborates this finding, and we estimate cumulative gains of up to 5 percentage points in provincial vaccination rates and 790,000 or more first doses for Canada as a whole as of October 31, 2021 (5 to 13 weeks after the provincial mandate announcements). We also find large vaccination gains in France (3 to 5 mln first doses), Italy (around 6 mln) and Germany (around 3.5 mln) 11 to 16 weeks after the proof of vaccination mandate announcements.

Keywords: difference-in-differences; vaccine hesitancy; vaccine uptake; proof of vaccination; vaccine mandates; COVID-19; time-series analysis; counterfactuals (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 I12 I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 49 pages
Date: 2021-12
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Published - published in: Nature Human Behavior, 2022, 6, 1615–1624

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