Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-2021
ISSN
0165-1765
Publisher
Elsevier
Language
en-US
Abstract
This research evaluates the effects of the twelve statewide vaccine lottery schemes that were announced as of June 7, 2021 on state vaccination rates. We construct a dataset that matches information on the timing and location of these lotteries with daily, county-level data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) on the cumulative number of people who have received at least one dose of an emergency-authorized Covid-19 vaccine. We find that 10 of the 12 statewide lotteries studied (i.e., all but Arkansas and California) generated a positive, statistically significant, and economically meaningful impact on vaccine uptake after thirty days. On average, the cost per marginal vaccination across these programs was approximately $55.
Recommended Citation
Christopher Robertson, K. Aleks Schaefer & Daniel Scheitrum,
Are Vaccine Lotteries Worth the Money?
,
in
209
Economics Letters
1
(2021).
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