Vaccination and altruism under the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The goal of this study is to examine the role of altruism and sensitivity to public shame in individuals' willingness to pay for a COVID-19 vaccine.

Study design

We apply expected utility theory to predict the role of individuals' altruism and public shame in the willingness to pay for vaccines. Subsequently, we test the prediction by using a unique cross-sectional survey.

Methods

We use online survey data collected from those aged 30-49 in Japan between June 18th and 25th, 2020 (n = 1686). The selection of respondents follows quota sampling with regard to age group, gender, and prefecture of residence. We employ an ordinary least square (OLS) model to regress respondents' willingness to pay for a hypothetically-effective vaccine for COVID-19 on binary indi

SUBMITTER: Cato S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8750826 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature