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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.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 9096

Classification
Wirtschaft
Crisis Management
National Government Expenditures and Health
Health Behavior
Health and Economic Development
Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
Subject
Covid-19 vaccination
crisis experience
crisis management
experience effects

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Gründler, Klaus
Hackenberger, Armin
Harter, Anina
Potrafke, Niklas
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute (CESifo)
(where)
Munich
(when)
2021

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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

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