Arbeitspapier
Covid-19 Vaccination: The Role of Crisis Experience
We propose that crisis experience influences preferences towards COVID-19 vaccination and the speed of vaccination during the initial phase when vaccines became available. We use macro and micro data to empirically investigate our theory and introduce a novel crisis experience index. Evidence based on macro data shows that a one-standard-deviation increase in our new crisis experience index gives rise to around 10 additional administered vaccine doses per 100 citizens (around one standard deviation). Our micro-level analysis provides evidence for a microfoundation of the macro-level results, indicating that the crisis history of countries is positively correlated with preferences towards COVID-19 vaccination. Disentangling socialization effects and experience effects, we find that citizens who have experienced crises during their impressionable years (ages 18–25) have stronger preferences for being vaccinated against COVID-19 than others.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 9096
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Crisis Management
National Government Expenditures and Health
Health Behavior
Health and Economic Development
Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
- Subject
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Covid-19 vaccination
crisis experience
crisis management
experience effects
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Gründler, Klaus
Hackenberger, Armin
Harter, Anina
Potrafke, Niklas
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute (CESifo)
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Munich
- (when)
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2021
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Gründler, Klaus
- Hackenberger, Armin
- Harter, Anina
- Potrafke, Niklas
- Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute (CESifo)
Time of origin
- 2021