Published September 2021
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The importance of Social Norms against Strategic Effects: The case of Covid-19 vaccine uptake
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California Institute of Technology
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Princeton University
Abstract
We study how individual decisions are affected by those of other members of the society. We use the vaccine against COVID-19 as a case study and empirically estimate the magnitude of three key forces: Herding, Social Norms, and Free-riding. We find that Free-riding is dominated by the other two forces, and that Social Norms are a key driver of behavior. There is, however, substantial heterogeneity and systematic differences between people by demographics and their political preferences.
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© 2021 Elsevier B.V. Received 20 April 2021, Revised 26 June 2021, Accepted 29 June 2021, Available online 2 July 2021. This project has received funding from the Keynes Fund, and from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement number #757229) (Elliott). We thank Jörg Kalbfuss for excellent research assistance.Attached Files
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- PMCID
- PMC8252706
- Eprint ID
- 110056
- Resolver ID
- CaltechAUTHORS:20210728-211627192
Funding
- Keynes Fund
- European Research Council (ERC)
- 757229
Dates
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2021-08-02Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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2023-06-27Created from EPrint's last_modified field
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- COVID-19