Let s call! Using the phone to increase acceptance of COVID-19 vaccines

Alex Armand, Mattia Fracchia and Pedro Vicente

NOVAFRICA Working Paper Series from Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Nova School of Business and Economics, NOVAFRICA

Abstract: Vaccinating against COVID-19 is the main hope to end the current pandemic. We develop and test experimentally three phone-based cumulative interventions to increase COVID-19 vaccine acceptance in Mozambique. First, the provision of a simple positive message informing about these vaccines. Second, the activation of social memory on the country s success in eradicating wild polio. Finally, the inoculation against fake news by developing among participants a critical view towards misleading information. We find that the combination of the three interventions increases COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and trust in institutions.

Keywords: COVID-19; vaccines; acceptance; hesitancy; information; trust; social memory; fake news; misinformation; inoculation theory; Mozambique; Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D83 D91 I12 I15 O12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38 pages
Date: 2021
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-exp, nep-hea and nep-soc
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