How Does the Vaccine Approval Procedure Affect COVID-19 Vaccination Intentions?

Overview

Journal Eur Econ Rev

Date 2023 Jun 26

PMID 37360583

Authors

Silvia Angerer

Daniela Glatzle-Rutzler

Philipp Lergetporer

Thomas Rittmannsberger

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Abstract

People's willingness to vaccinate is critical to combating the COVID-19 pandemic. We devise a representative experiment to study how the design of the vaccine approval procedure affects trust in newly developed vaccines and consequently public attitudes towards vaccination. Compared to an , choosing the more thorough approval procedure increases vaccination intentions by 13 percentage points. The effects of the increased duration of the approval procedure are positive and significant only for . Treatment effects do not differ between relevant subgroups, such as respondents who had (did not have) COVID-19, or between vaccinated and unvaccinated respondents. Increased trust in the vaccine is the key mediator of treatment effects on vaccination intentions.

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