Association between statewide financial incentive programs and COVID-19 vaccination rates.

ABSTRACT: To promote COVID-19 vaccination, many states in the US introduced financial incentives ranging from small, guaranteed rewards to lotteries that give vaccinated individuals a chance to win large prizes. There is limited evidence on the effectiveness of these programs and conflicting evidence from survey experiments and studies of individual states' lotteries. To assess the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccination incentive programs, we combined information on statewide incentive programs in the US with data on daily vaccine doses administered in each state. Leveraging variation across states in the daily availability of incentives, our difference-in-differences analyses showed that statewide programs were not associated with a significant change in vaccination rates. Furthermore, there was no

SUBMITTER: Thirumurthy H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8966995 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature