Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/245406 
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Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 9225
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
Ohio announced a Vax-a-Million Lottery in May 2021 to encourage people vaccinated. If people may avoid vaccination because (1) they worry about rare but critical side effects or (2) they want to free ride on herd immunity, the vaccination lottery may work better or worse than a lump-sum transfer to the contributors for herd immunity. I experimentally compare the effectiveness of the vaccination lottery over a lump-sum transfer. Overall, vaccination lottery works better, and it particularly incentivizes probability-weighting subjects.
Subjects: 
vaccination incentives
lottery
Covid-19
laboratory experiments
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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