Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/273677 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
Working Papers in Economics and Statistics No. 2022-04
Publisher: 
University of Innsbruck, Research Platform Empirical and Experimental Economics (eeecon), Innsbruck
Abstract: 
Peoples' willingness to vaccinate is critical to combating the COVID-19 pandemic. We devise a representative experiment to study how the design of the vaccine approval procedure affects public attitudes towards vaccination. Compared to an Emergency Use Authorization, choosing the more thorough Accelerated Authorization approval procedure increases vaccination intentions by 13 percentage points. Effects of increased duration of the approval procedure are positive and significant only for Emergency Use Authorization. Treatment effects are homogenous across population subgroups. Increased trust in the vaccine is the key mediator of treatment effects on vaccination intentions.
Subjects: 
vaccination
COVID-19
approval procedure
experiment
JEL: 
I12
I18
C93
D83
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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