Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/300062 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 11134
Publisher: 
CESifo GmbH, Munich
Abstract: 
We investigate the effect of interpersonal and institutional trust on COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy. We ask whether interpersonal and institutional trust predict COVID-19 vaccination delay and refusal. We use an unprecedently rich and representative dataset of over 22,000 New Zealand respondents, sourced from the 2014, 2016, and 2018 General Social Survey. Respondents reported their trust in seven domains: Parliament, police, health, education, courts, media, and the general public. Their survey responses are linked to respondents' later records of COVID-19 vaccinations and their socio-demographic characteristics, as collected in the 2018 census. We find that all measured trust domains exhibit a significant and negative correlation with vaccine hesitancy. As trust increases, vaccination hesitancy decreases and so does the time it takes people to vaccinate. The correlation is strongest for trust in police and interpersonal trust, and weakest for trust in media. By understanding how trust informs vaccination decision-making, we can better prepare for future pandemics and improve public health vaccination campaigns more generally.
Subjects: 
Covid-19
vaccination
trust
general social survey
GSS
JEL: 
I12
I18
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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