Effect of retirement on COVID-19 vaccination in Europe: a quasi-experimental study.

ABSTRACT: This study investigates how the transition to retirement influenced the uptake of COVID-19 vaccination in Europe. We employed a quasi-experimental regression discontinuity design to assess the impact of retirement on COVID-19 vaccination, accounting for unobserved confounding and controlling for factors such as subjective health status, age, vaccination for other diseases, medication use, cancer diagnosis, and internet use. We used individual-level data from the Corona Surveys of the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), conducted in 2020 and 2021. Our outcomes were binary indicators capturing whether the respondents were either vaccinated or expressed the intention to get vaccinated. The independent variable of interest was retirement status, which is instrumented us

SUBMITTER: Kyriopoulos I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12634678 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature