2021 | Heike Klüver, Felix Hartmann, Macartan Humphreys, Ferdinand Geißler and Johannes Giesecke

Can incentives spur Covid-19 vaccination uptake?

Recent evidence suggests that vaccination hesitancy is too high in many countries to sustainably contain COVID-19.

Female doctor with a stethoscope on shoulder holder syringe and COVID-19 vaccine. Health care and medical concept.

Using a factorial survey experiment administered to 20,500 online respondents in Germany, we assess the effectiveness of three strategies to increase vaccine uptake, namely, providing freedoms, financial remuneration, and vaccination at local doctors. Our results suggest that all three strategies can increase vaccination uptake on the order of two to three percentage points (PP) overall and five PP among the undecided. The combined effects could be as high as 13 PP for this group. The returns from different strategies vary across age groups, however, with older cohorts more responsive to local access and younger cohorts most responsive to enhanced freedoms for vaccinated citizens.

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2 – siam.pukkato / Shutterstock / Female doctor with a stethoscope on shoulder holder syringe and COVID-19 vaccine; Health care and medical concept

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