Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/279005 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 16307
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper unpacks the effects of social networks on monthly county-level COVID19 vaccinations in the US. To parse out short-term community-level externalities where people help each other overcome immediate access barriers, from learning spillovers regarding vaccine efficacy that naturally take time, we distinguish between the contemporaneous and dynamic network effects of vaccination exposure. Leveraging an extensive list of controls and network proxies including Facebook county-to-county links, we find evidence showing positive, stage-of-pandemic dependent contemporaneous friendship network effects. We also consistently find null dynamic network effect, suggesting that social exposure to vaccination has had limited effect on alleviating COVID vaccine hesitancy.
Subjects: 
friendship network
COVID-19
vaccine uptake
JEL: 
I12
D83
H12
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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