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Brown Bag Seminar with Professor Conny Wollbrant, University of St Andrews Financial incentives for vaccination uptake
Abstract: We study the effects of financial incentives on vaccination uptake, morals, trust and perceived safety and efficacy of vaccines, feelings of coercion, and other (non-targeted) health behaviours. Previous research has faced inherent difficulties with experimental calibration and relied on insufficient treatment groups to identify several theoretically plausible relationships between incentives and behaviour. We implement 17 treatments with hypothetical incentives ranging from £0 to £1000 in a survey experiment. We present participants with a scenario in which a vaccine is offered to reduce the spread of an infectious disease. We then randomly assign participants to one of the incentive treatments and ask them about their intention to get vaccinated. We refer to this as our main survey. A complementary prediction survey elicits predictions about responses from the main survey.