Financial incentives for vaccination do not have negative unintended consequences.

ABSTRACT: Financial incentives to encourage healthy and prosocial behaviours often trigger initial behavioural change^1-11, but a large academic literature warns against using them^12-16. Critics warn that financial incentives can crowd out prosocial motivations and reduce perceived safety and trust, thereby reducing healthy behaviours when no payments are offered and eroding morals more generally^17-24. Here we report findings from a large-scale, pre-registered study in Sweden that causally measures the unintended consequences of offering financial incentives for taking the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. We use a unique combination of random exposure to financial incentives, population-wide administrative vaccination records and rich survey data. We find no negative

SUBMITTER: Schneider FH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9833033 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature