Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/250607 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 14946
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We evaluate the impact of government mandated proof of vaccination requirements for access to public venues and non-essential businesses on COVID-19 vaccine uptake. We find that the announcement of a mandate is associated with a rapid and significant surge in new vaccinations (more than 60% increase in weekly first doses) using the variation in the timing of these measures across Canadian provinces in a differencein-differences approach. Time-series analysis for each province and for France, Italy and Germany corroborates this finding, and we estimate cumulative gains of up to 5 percentage points in provincial vaccination rates and 790,000 or more first doses for Canada as a whole as of October 31, 2021 (5 to 13 weeks after the provincial mandate announcements). We also find large vaccination gains in France (3 to 5 mln first doses), Italy (around 6 mln) and Germany (around 3.5 mln) 11 to 16 weeks after the proof of vaccination mandate announcements.
Subjects: 
COVID-19
vaccine mandates
proof of vaccination
vaccine uptake
vaccine hesitancy
difference-in-differences
time-series analysis
counterfactuals
JEL: 
I18
I12
C23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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