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Cash versus lottery video messages: online COVID-19 vaccine incentives experiment
- Abstract:
- During the COVID-19 pandemic, governments offered financial incentives to increase vaccine uptake. We evaluate the impact on COVID-19 vaccine uptake of cash equivalents versus being entered into lotteries. We randomly assign 1628 unvaccinated US participants into one of three 45-second informational videos promoting vaccination with messages about (a) health benefits of COVID-19 vaccines (control), (b) being entered into lotteries or (c) receiving cash equivalent vouchers. After seeing the control health information video, 16% of individuals wanted information on COVID-19 vaccination. This compared with 14% of those assigned to the lottery video (odds ratio of 0.82 relative to control: 95% credible interval, 0.58–1.17) and 22% of those assigned to the cash voucher video (odds ratio of 1.53 relative to control: 95% credible interval, 1.11–2.11). These results support greater use of cash vouchers to promote information seeking about COVID-19 vaccination and do not support the use of lottery incentives.
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1093/ooec/odad004
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- Oxford University Press
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- Oxford Open Economics More from this journal
- Volume:
- 2
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 1–7
- Article number:
- odad004
- Publication date:
- 2023-06-16
- Acceptance date:
- 2023-06-14
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2752-5074
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English
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1405966
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pubs:1405966
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- © The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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