Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/272680 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 16053
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper studies the causal impacts of vaccine eligibility on social distancing behaviors (risk compensation). We apply a regression discontinuity design around the birth date cutoff of vaccine eligibility using large, high-frequency data from credit card and airline companies as well as survey data. We find no evidence of risk compensation although vaccine take-up increases substantially with eligibility. We find some evidence of self-selection into vaccine take-up based on perception towards vaccine effectiveness and side effects, but we do not find that the treatment effects differ between compliers and never-takers.
Subjects: 
COVID-19
vaccine take-up
selection
risk compensation
social distancing
JEL: 
I12
I18
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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